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Abercrombie, John. The Complete Kitchen Gardener, And, Hot-Bed Forcer; With the thorough practical management of Hot-Houses, Fire-Walls, and Forcing Houses, and the improved modern culture of the Pinery-Stoves, and Pine-Apples, etc.
1st. Ed. Pub. John Stockdale, London. 1789 pp.[xii], 509, , 6 page publisher’s adverts. 12mo. Contents in fine condition. More recently rebound in full-calf, with raised bands and gilt lettering to spine in fine condition. Sewn headbands. Rare.
John Abercrombie’s contribution to Horticulture is held in high regard. His intention for this work to provide a comprehensive treatment of the Kitchen Garden. He felt that there was a significant gap in the then extant literature, which comprised just a piecemeal approach to the subject.
Abercrombie, John. The Hot-House Gardener on the General Culture of the Pine-Apple. And methods of forcing early Grapes, Peaches, Nectarines, and other choice fruits in Hot-Houses, Vineries, Fruit-Houses, Hot-Walls, &c. with directions for raising melons and early Strawberries.
1st. Ed. Pub. John Stockdale, London. 1789 pp.xvi, 238 with 4 [of 5] plates plus 2 page publisher’s catalogue. Large 8vo. Contents in thor. vg. condition. More recently bound in oat-coloured cloth, with lettering in gilt to spine; in fine condition. Scarce.
‘Among 18th century British nurserymen who became writers on practical gardening, one of the most successful was John Abercrombie. At an early age, Abercrombie started the habit of writing down all the observations he made in the pursuit of his profession, a practice that must have provided him with much useful material when he became an author’ (Henrey).
Agricola, Georg Andreas (and Bradley, Prof. Richard). The Experimental Husbandman and Gardener. Containing a new method of Improving Estates and Gardens, by cultivating and increasing of forest-trees, coppice-woods, fruit-trees, shrubs, flowers and greenhouses, and exotick plants, after several manners; viz by Layers, Cuttings, Roots, Leaves &c.
2nd. Ed. Pub. for W. Mears & F. Clay, London. 1726 pp.[xxiv], 314, [iv] with 33 superb early Georgian, copper engraved plates (on 22 sheets, 13 of which fold-out). 4to. Hardback. Small hole to first ffep, a few minor ink marks, o/w. contents in fine condition. Bound in contemporary sprinkled full-calf leather with gilt decoration and lettering. Leather at front hinge showing some wear (joint still very firm), some rubbing at extremities, o/w. in vg. condition. Prov: Armorial bookplate to front pastedown; Neat private library stamp to pastedown (Rothamsted, Lawes Trust, acquired by them in 1922). Scarce.
An important work, indeed the ‘first treatise on cuttings and graftings’ (Hunt). The copy offered for sale here is the preferred 2nd edition with the ‘Appendix of experiments made upon Dr. Agricola’s general treatise of husbandry, by R. Bradley’. Henrey 412.
Brookshaw, George. The Horticultural Repository. Containing delineations of the best varieties of the different species of English Fruits.
1st. Ed. Pub. London.  -1823 Two volumes bound as one. Ex Stoke-on-Trent City Library copy, bound in ochre coloured boards - near fine condition. Spine indicates ‘Vol. I’, but it is in fact both volumes, complete with the 104 hand-coloured plates as called for (7 fold-out). Neat blind-stamp on title page through to p.2 and first plate, no further lib. markings. Measures 9 1/4 in by 5 3/4 in., with some plates trimmed when rebound. Volume 1 has full-title (not half title); whilst in volume 2 both full and half-titles removed. Overall contents very clean and in near fine condition. Two of the fold-out plates show some superficial wear to image at folds. Overall a very good, ex-library copy of this scarce and sought after work.
‘The best English fruit varieties were featured......in Brookshaw’s ‘Horticultural Repository’, which laid out verbally and visually the essential observations for a successful fruit plantation.’ (from ‘Pomona Britannica’, (2002) pub. Taschen).
Bull, Henry Graves, (Gen. Ed.) and Hogg, R. (Tech. Ed.). The Herefordshire Pomona. Containing coloured figures and descriptions of the most esteemed kinds of Apples and Pears.
1st. Ed. Pub. Jakeman and Carver. 1876-1885 Two volume set. Folio. Some minor foxing otherwise the contents are in fine condition. Complete with 77 fine colour chromo-lithographed plates. Handsomely bound in contemporary green half-morocco which is in fine condition. TEG. A lovely provenance - this set has the armorial bookplate of ‘John Hopton of Can-Frome in the County of Hereford’ on the front paste-downs of both volumes. Only 600 sets of this work were ever produced - a super set of this scarce work.
The plates were by Edith Bull, Alice B. Ellis and W.G. Smith (plate 1 only). They were lithographed by G. Severeyns. Published under the auspices of the Woolhope Club. This is one of the finest fruit books ever issued [Great Flower Books, pp.59-60; Nissen 294].
1st. Ed. Pub. Matthew Gillyflower. 1693 pp.xliv, 184; iv, 204; iv, 80: with engraved frontis. (portrait of author) with 11 engraved plates, two folding. Folio. New calf spine with orig. boards. A very clean, attractive copy of the first edition of this work with small repair to frontis. With Standish family bookplate. Standish (1799-1840) was an English art and book collector. Scarce.
De La Quintinye was chief director of all the gardens of King Louis XIV. This English edition includes a section on Orange-Trees and Melons, not found in the French Editions.
Downing, A.J. (Curtis, G.W. (Ed.)) Rural Essays.
1st. Ed. Pub. Leavitt & Allen. 1854 pp.lxxi, 557 with some text figs. Contents very clean with some foxing to endpapers. In original binding showing some very minor wear at spine ends otherwise in vg. condition.
With a memoir of the author by George William Curtis. Six chapters in which Downing discusses Horticulture, Landscape Gardening, Rural Architecture, Trees, Agriculture and Fruit. A final chapter comprises letters written by Downing.
Dykes, W.R. Notes on Tulip Species.
1st. Pub. Herbert Jenkins. 1930 pp. 108 with 54 beautifully illustrated plates by the author. Top/bottom of spine gently bumped, bottom right hand corner of front board has been professionally repaired. Scarce in original dustwrapper which has been mounted onto similar coloured paper to preserve it. Dustwrapper has a little loss in places and some stain marks. Still a very nice copy.
Forsyth, W. A Treatise on the Culture and Management of Fruit Trees.
4th. Ed. Pub. Longman. 1806 pp.xxviii, 523 with 13 plates, some fold-out. Contents in vg. to fine condition bound in original cloth boards which do show wear, more so on corners and spine ends. A good reading copy.
Forsyth, William. A Treatise on the Culture and Management of Fruit-Trees; In Which a New Method of Pruning and Training is Fully Described.
1st. Ed. Pub. Longman and Rees. 1802 pp.viii, 371 with 13 plates (12 fold-out). Contents beautifully clean. In original, handsome, full leather binding with gilt decoration and lettering to spine. Front external hinges showing some wear at top and bottom - binding in fine condition. With armorial bookplate of John Bolton to front paste down, and his neat signature to top corner of title page. A very nice copy of the large format first edition.

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