1. Miller, Philip.

The Gardeners Kalender [Calendar]; Directing what Works are necessary to be done every month in the Kitchen, Fruit, and Pleasure-Gardens, as also in the Conservatory and Nursery. With Accounts – I. Of the particular Seasons for the Propagation of all sorts of Esculent Plants and Fruits, with the Seasons wherein each Sort is proper for the Table. II. Of all Sorts of Trees, Plants and Flowers with the Time of their flowering in each Month. By Philip Miller, Member of the Botanic Academy at Florence and Gardener to the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries at their Botanic Garden in Chelsea. The Eleventh Edition, Adapted to the New Style; With a List of Medicinal Plants, which may be gathered in each Month for Use.

London, Printed by Charles Rivington for John Rivington, at the Bible and Crown, in St.Paul’s Church-Yard and James Rivington and James Fletcher, at the Oxford-Theatre in Pater-noster Row, 1757. Octavo. Frontispiece, XVIII, 352 pages plus 11 unnumbered pages of a thorough Index and one page of advertising for “Miller’s Gardeners Dictionary …with Directions for the Culture of Vineyards and Making Wine in England”. Hardcover / Modern half-leather using the original boards of the 1757-Edition. New endpapers. This rare book is in excellent condition after a professional restoration of the binding. The interior pages and frontispiece-illustration in unusually stunning condition.

2. [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.

3. [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.

4. Wright, R.C.

Greenhouse Ferns and Romance of Plant Life.

Second Edition. London, Jarrold & Sons, (1898). Octavo. Frontispiece, 148 pages plus 12 unnumbered pages of advertising. Front pastedown and endpaper are also filled with advertising. Hardcover / Original, very decoratively illustrated publisher’s cloth with gilt ornament. Very good condition with some signs of external wear.