3941. [Naylor, Verney].

Large Reference-Library of World-Class Garden Designer Verney Naylor, with two original Wild-Flower Herbals, hundreds of Magazines and excellent Books on Garden Design, Botany, History of Gardens and Gardening, Garden Architecture, Monographs on Plants and Shrubs and specialist publications of fellow Garden-Designers, Garden-Architects, etc., which were reviewed by Verney Naylor for leading Garden-Magazines, spanning from as early as mid-19th century books to the late 2000’s. The collection also includes two original Templates for Garden-Design by Verney Naylor. The two Wild-Flower-Collectionsl are original Nature – Herbals with actual Wild-Flowers, collected by Verney Naylor in the Pyrenees in June-July, 1979 as well as an additional Wild-Flower Herbal, collected by Verney Naylor in the Rocky Mountains of Western Alberta and additional Wild-Flower speciemns, collected by her husband, Geologist David Naylor, in the North-West Territories and the Yukon in the year 1966.

Octavo. Hardcover / Softcover – Publications. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. The price of the collection includes international shipping. See details of each publication which is part of the collection, on our website under “Libraries & Collections”. The illustrations of books and magazines shown here are only a fraction of what is included in this very large collection.

3942. [Naylor, Verney & David].

Two original Wild-Flower Herbals with Wild-Flowers of which some have medicinal properties (Arnica). The original Plants in these two Herbals were collected by Garden Designer Verney Naylor in the Pyrenees in June-July, 1979 as well as an additional Wild-Flower Herbal, collected by Verney Naylor in the Rocky Mountains of Western Alberta and by her husband, Geologist David Naylor, in the North-West Territories and the Yukon in the year 1966 during a geological Excursion. Both Herbals with Manuscript Notes by Verney Naylor.

Alberta / Yukon / Pyrenees, Octavo. Hardcover Binders. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Very rare original plant-herbal.

3943. Russ, Karl.

The Speaking Parrots – A Scientific Manual [With all eight (8) chromolithographic plates complete]. Translated by Leonora Schultze and revised by Dr.Karl Russ.

London, L.Upcott Gill, no year (c.1880). Octavo (14.3 cm wide x 19.7 cm high). Frontispice – Illustration,VIII, 296 pages plus 12 pages of a “Catalogue of Practical Handbooks, published L.Upcott Gill, plus 4 unnumbered pages with further advertising. With eight chromolithographs of Parrots and several black-and-white illustrations of Parrots as well. Original, illlustrated publisher’s Hardcover. Unusually excellent and firm condition with only minor signs of wear. The book is placed in collector’s mylar,

3944. Menzel, Hans.

Hupferl und Tupferl. Die klugen Erfinder. Mit Bildern von Rudolf Brezik. Idee und Verse: Hans Menzel.

Erste Auflage. Leipzig, Leipziger Kinderbuchverlag, 2005. 30 x 20,5 cm. Unpaginiert. Ca. 30 Seiten. Hardcover/ Gebundene Ausgabe. Sehr guter Zustand mit minimalen Gebrauchsspuren.

3945. Stuart, Francis.

The Pillar of Cloud.

First Edition. London, Victor Gollancz, 1948. Small Octavo. 232 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Extremely rare and even rarer in the original dustjacket. Tiny Bookseller-stamp to endpaper.

3946. Stewart, A. T. Q. (Anthony Terence Quincey).

Narrow Ground – Aspects of Ulster, 1609-1969.

London, Faber and Faber, 1977. 23 cm. 208 pages with 6 maps showing for example the percentage of Protestants in the population of Ireland. Hardcover (without dustjacket). Very good condition with only minor signs of wear, foxing to edges and minor stain to cover. Interior excellent !

3947. Bott, Gerhard.

Jugendstil. Art Nouveau. Modern Style. Nieuwe Kunst – Kunsthandwerk um 1900. Ergänzung und Bearbeitung der Neuerwebungen durch Carl Benno Heller.

Zweite, erweiterte Auflage. Damstadt, Eduard Roether Verlag, 1973. 22,5 x 29 cm. 456 Seiten. Hardcover/ Gebundene Ausgabe. Leinen. Sehr guter Zustand mit minimalen Gebrauchsspuren.

3948. Conrad, Joseph.

Der Spiegel der See und andere Geschichten. Mit malerischen Impressionen von Hans Peter Jürgens. Herausgegeben von Caroline-M. Wierig.

Hamburg, Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, 2003. 22 x 28 cm. 120 Seiten. Hardcover/ Gebundene Ausgabe. Im originalen Schutzumschlag. Sehr guter Zustand mit minimalen Gebrauchsspuren.

3949. Arntzenius, A.C. / Dunning, A.J. / Snellen, H.A.

Blood Pressure Measurement and Systemic Hypertension [2nd Einthoven meeting on past and present cardiology – In Memory of Willem Einthoven (1860-1927)]

Breda (Holland), Medical World Press, 1981. Octavo. 340 pages with illustrations. Hardcover with dustjackets. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. From the private Research-library of Irish Professor of Medicine Eoin O’Brien. Very Rare !

3950. Lao She [Shu Qingchun].

The Drum Singers. [The rare english Translation]. Translated by Helena Kuo / Illustrated by Shi Guoliang.

Hong Kong, Joint Publishing Company (JPC), 1987. Octavo. XII, 254 pages. Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.