Gardening and Gardens, continued: 205 JUSTICE (J.). The BRITISH GARDENER'S DIRECTOR, chiefly adapted to the Climate of the Northern Counties: directing the necessary Works in the Kitchen, Fruit and Pleasure Gardens, and in the Nursery, Green-House, and Stove . . . 8vo., old calf; very scarce Edinburgh, 1764 206 the same. 8vo., old calf 1775 207 LAUREMBERG. (Engraved title, surrounded by allegorical figures, with inscriptions, lines 1-9) | PETRI | LAVREMBERGII | Rostochiensis, | APPAR ATVS PLANTARIVS | PRIMVS: | Tributos in duos libros. | I. DE PLANTIS BVLBOSIS. | II. DE PLANTIS TVBEROSIS. (The same, lines 21-23:) | Francofurti ad Moe | num Sumptibus Matthæi Meriani. | With engraved title and 36 copperplates (Engraved title, as above, lines 1-6) | PETRI | LAVREMBERGII | Rostochiensis, | HORTICVL | TVRA, | Libris II. comprehensa; | (The same, lines 18-20:) Francofurti ad Moe- num Sumptibus Matthæi Meriani. With engraved title and 23 copperlates in 1 vol., sm. 4to., with 2 engraved titles and 59 copperplates by Merian, comprising plans for Mazes and Parterres and figures of Plants and Horticultural Implements; old calf 1632-31 208 LE BLOND. (Title, in red and black, lines 1-10:) | LA THEORIE ET LA PRATIQUE | DU JARDINAGE. | OU L'ON TRAITE A FOND DES BEAUX JARDINS | appellès communément | LES JARDINS DE PROPRETÉ, | Comme font LES PARTERRES, LES BOSQUETS, LES BOULINGRINS, &c. | (The same, lines 2527:) | A LA HAYE | Chez PIERRE HUSSON, | Marchand Libraire. | M.D.CCXI. | 4to., with numerous plates; old calf The Hague, 1711 209 210 211 212 the same. Third Edition. 4to., a fine copy in old calf gilt ibid., 1739 The third edition contains a number of additional engravings. 4to., with numerous folding plates; a fine copy in old calf (rebacked) 1712 the same. (Title, in red and black, lines 28-33) | The Second Edition. With very large ADDITIONS and a new TREATISE of FLOWERS | and ORANGE-TREES. (Here a ruled line.) | LONDON: | Printed for BERNARD LINTOT, at the Cross-Keys, between the | Temple-Gates, in Fleet-Street. 1728. | 4to., with numerous plates; old calf, rebacked, with the bookplate of Philip Southcote 1728 the same. 4to., a fine copy in old calf, with the bookplate of Deburgh Earl of Clanricarde : 1728 213 MADDOCK (J.). The Florist's Directory, a Treatise on the Culture of Flowers to which is added, a supplementary Dissertation on Soils, Manures, etc. New Edition, improved. By S. Curtis. 8vo., with 10 plates (8 coloured); half calf 1822 214 MAWE (T.). Every Man his own Gardener. Being a new, and much more complete, Gardener's Kalendar than any one hitherto published. Second Edition, corrected, enlarged, and very much improved. 12mo., pp. 404, xi; old calf another edition. 12mo., upwards of 800 pp.; calf £ 8. 1 16 ( 10( 2 10 1 12 2 10 3 15 3 0 3 10 0 10 1767 0 215 1809 0 Thomas Mawe was gardener to the Duke of Leeds. His book is one of the best known on the subject. 67 Gardening and Gardens, continued: 216 MILLER (P.). THE GARDENERS DICTIONARY 217 The 1 vol., with frontispiece and copperplates, 1759.-FIGURES of . . PLANTS described in the GARDENERS DICTIONARY 2 vols., with 300 coloured plates, 1771.-together, 3 vols., large folio, old calf 1759-7. The Gardeners Kalendar; directing what Works are necessary to be performed every Month in the Kitchen, Fruit, and Pleasure Gardens, as also in the Conservatory and Nursery Fourteenth Edition . . . 8vo., with frontispiece and folding plates; old calf 1765 218 MONTOLIEU (Mrs.). The Gardens, a Poem. Translated from the French of the Abbé de Lille. The Second Edition. Large 8vo., with engravings by Bartolozzi; half calf 1805 The poem is in four cantos, each with a charming frontispiece and tail-piece by 219 MORRIS (R.). FLORA CONSPICUA; a Selection of the most Orna- 1826 220 PAUL (W.). The ROSE GARDEN. In Two Divisions. Eighth Edition. Roy. 8vo., with woodcuts and many fine coloured plates; cloth 1881 221 PAXTON'S FLOWER GARDEN. By Prof. LINDLEY and Sir J. PAXTON. Revised by T. Baines. 3 vols., 4to., with a great number of illustrations in the text and 108 coloured plates; half calf neat 1882-84 222 PHILLIPS (H.). Sylva Florifera: the Shubbery historically and botanically treated; with Observations on the Formation of ornamental Plantations, and picturesque Scenery. 2 vols., 8vo., bds. 1823 Flora Historica: or the Three Seasons of the British Parterre historically and botanically treated. 2 vols., 8vo., cloth 223 1824 224 PLAT. (Title, surrounded by two ruled lines :) | THE GARDEN | OF scarce . 1653. | 1653 This is the first edition of the book issued as The Garden of Eden. It appeared originally as Floraes Paradise in 1608. 225 QUINTINYE. (Title, in red and black, within a two-line border :) | THE | Compleat Gard'ner; | OR | Directions for CULTIVATING AND | Right ORDERING OF Fruit-GARDENS AND | Kitchen-Gardens; | with Divers REFLECTIONS | On feveral Parts | OF HUSBANDRY. | (Here a ruled line.) In Six BOOKS. | (Here a ruled line.) | By the Famous Mons De La Quintinye, Chief directer of all the GARDENS of the French-King. | Here a ruled line.) | To which is added | His Treatife of ORANGETREES, with the Raifing of MELONS, omitted in the French Editions. (Here a ruled line.) | Made English by John Evelyn Efquire, | Illustrated with Copper Plates. | (Here a ruled line.) | LONDON, Printed for Matthew Gillyflower, at the Spread Eagle in | WeftminsterHall, and James Partridge, at the Post-house at Charing-Crofs, MDCXCIII. Sm. folio, with plates, without the portrait; old calf d. 44 0 0 4 6 0 18 0. 110 LOO 1 15 0 0 4 6 056 1 18 0 The engravings include a folding plan of the King's Kitchen Garden at Versailles. Gardening and Gardens, continued:- 227 228 The Compleat Gard'ner . . . Now compendiously abridg'd, and £ 8vo., 1699 1 1701 0 1 the same. Third Edition. 8vo., with plates; old calf 229 REA. (Title, letterpress, within a border of two ruled lines :) | FLORA | seu, De Florum Cultura. | (Here a ruled line.) | OR, A Complete Florilege, FURNISHED | With all Requifites belonging to | A FLorist. (Here a ruled line.) | In III. Books. (Here a ruled line.) | BY JOHN REA, Gent. (Here a ruled line.) | LONDON, | Printed by J. G. for Richard Marriott, and are to be fold at his Shop in Fleet Street, under the Kings-Head Tavern, | over against the Inner Temple gate, 1665. | Sm. folio, FIRST EDITION, with engraved title (a small hole in same) by Loggan, and 8 plates; a clean copy in old calf, repaired, having the Albemarle Arms on sides 1665 230 The plates contain designs for flower-beds. "From the Coat of Arms, this Book must have undoubtedly belonged either to George Monk Duke of Albemarle, or to His Son and Heir Christopher; the former died in 1669, the latter died at Jamaica in 1688; when the Title became extinct ".Extract from note on flyleaf. "John Rea, gentleman, who was resident at Kinlet, near Bewdley, in Worcestershire, in 1676, is sometimes mistaken for John Ray the learned Divine and Naturalist, but the latter was nearly thirty years younger."-Gardening in England. the same. Second Edition. Sm. folio, a very fine and tall copy in old panelled calf gilt, repaired, with the bookplate of the Earl of Aylesford An enlarged edition of the preceding. 1676 231 REID. (Title :) | THE SCOTS GARD'NER | IN TWO PARTS, | The First of Contriving and Planting | GARDENS, ORCHARDS, AVENUES, GROVES: | With new and profitable wayes of Levelling; and how to Measure and Divide Land. | The Second of the Propagation & Improvement of FORREST, and FRUIT-TREES, KITCHEN- HEARBES, ROOTS and FRUITS : | With some Phyfick Hearbs, Shrubs and Flowers. | Appendix fhewing how to use the Fruits of the Garden: | Whereunto is annexed | The GARDNERS KALENDAR. | (Here a ruled line.) | Publifhed for the Climate of SCOTLAND | By JOHN REID Gard'ner. | (Here two ruled lines enclosing a woodcut device.) | Edinburgh, Printed by DAVID LINDSAY, and his Partners, at the foot of Heriot's Bridge, 1683. 232 Sm. 4to., with 4 separate full-page woodcuts; a very fine and large 1683 The Scots Gardener for the Climate of Scotland, in three Parts 234 SMEE (A.). MY GARDEN, its Plan and Culture, together with a general Description of its Geology, Botany, and Natural History. Impl. 8vo., with 1250 illustrations; cloth 1872 4 3 10 1 1 1 Gardening and Gardens, continued :— 235 SWEET (R.). THE BRITISH FLOWER GARDEN. [FIRST SERIES.] 3 vols., 1823-29.--SECOND SERIES. 4 vols., 1831-38.-together, 7 vols., roy. 8vo., with 712 coloured plates; half calf; EXCESSIVELY RARE £ 8. d. 1823-38 18 18 0 236 VAN OOSTEN. The Dutch Gardener: or, the compleat Florist. Con 1711 Calcutta, 1845 238 WILTON GARDEN. (Engraved title, numbered 1:) | WILTON GARDEN (Inscription at the head of the large folding view of the garden :) HORTVS PENBROCHIANVS Le Jardin de Vuilton, Construict Par Tres noble et tres puissant Seigneur PHILIPPE COMTE DE PENBROOKE ET MONGOMERI . . . . . . . Isaac de caus Inuent | . Sm. folio, facsimile reprint; hf. bd. Originally produced about 1650 COLLATION: 1, engraved title; 2, engraved advertisement in English; 3-26, the plates (see Upcott). Plate 20 (the Gladiator) is in two states-before and after the inscription. 239 GATTY (A.). BRITISH SEA-WEEDS. Drawn from Harvey's "Phycologia Britannica." With Descriptions, an Amateur's Synopsis, Rules for laying out Sea-Weeds, an Order for arranging them in the Herbarium, and an Appendix of New Series. 2 vols., sm. 4to., pp. xlix, with 80 coloured plates containing 384 figures; cloth (pub. £2. 10s) 240 GEINITZ (J.). de Pæonia Sm. 4to., half red morocco, very neat Jena, 1670 241 GMELIN (C. C.). FLORA BADENSIS. 4 vols., 8vo., with portrait of Robert Wight and plates; hf. bd. Carlsruhe, 1805-26 242 GODEFROY-LEBEUF (A.) and N. E. Brown. Les CYPRIPEDIÉES. Ire livraison. Roy. 4to., all published, with illustrations in the text and 8 coloured plates; in wrapper, as issued 1 10 0 0 12 0 1 1 0 1872 14 0 0 15 0 100 1888 1857-65 243 GRANT (Captain Bartle). The ORCHIDS of BURMA (including the 1872-94 The first two volumes appeared in monthly numbers and are, of course, entitled The Supplement consists of Cooke's Handbook of British Fungi, Second and 0 15 0 0 10 0 200 0 16 0 4 16 0 248 GREW. | THE ANATOMY | OF PLANTS. WITH AN IDEA OF A Philo- 1682 249 GRIFFITH (W.). Posthumous Papers bequeathed to the Honourable, Verhandl. d. k. k. zool.-bot.-Gesellschaft, Vienna, 1860-63 Jena, 1667 251 Venice, 1764 254 HARVEY (W. H.) and O. W. SONDER. FLORA CAPENSIS: being a Systematic Description of the Plants of the Cape Colony, Caffraria, and Port Natal. 3 vols., 8vo., cloth; scarce Dublin, 1859-65 255 HASSALL (A. H.). A HISTORY of the BRITISH FRESHWATER ALGE, including Descriptions of the Desmider and Diatomaceæ. 2 vols., 8vo., with 103 coloured plates; cloth; RARE 1852 256 HEERING (A.). . . . de Iride Sm. 4to., half green morocco, very neat Nuremberg, 1710 257 HEIGEL (A.). Opium, quà Naturam & Usum ejus exhibens Altdorf, 1681.-Zencker (H. C.). ... de Partibus constitutivis Opii, eiusque Virtutibus in Corpore humano Göttingen, 1745-in 1 vol., sm. 4to., bds. 1681-1745 Herbals and other Early Works on Medicine: 258 ALEXANDER of Tralles. Alexandri Tralliani Medici Libri duodecim, Ioanne Gvinterio Andernaco interprete & emendatore . . 1576. 16mo., vellum Leyden, 1576 259 CULPEPPER. A New Method of Physick: or, a Short View of Paracelsus and Galen's Practice; In 3 Treatises . Written in Latin by Simeon Partlicius. . . Translated into English by Nicholas Culpeper 1654. 12mo., a very fine copy in old calf 1654 260 FUCHS. (Title, lines 1-7 :) | DE HISTORIA STIR- | PIVM £ 1 1 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 Folio, with portraits of the author, the designers, and the engraver, also a series of more than 500 superb woodcuts; in an old binding, repaired Basel, 1542 28 Of this, the most beautiful of all the herbals, I sold copies to John Ruskin and William Morris, both of whom were fascinated by its woodcuts. The copy of the latter fetched at his sale £56. Copies, spoilt by crude colouring, exist. 0 |