1. Anonymous.

The Margery Fish Plant Nursery Mail Order Catalogue.

South Petherton, East Lambrook Manor, 1996. 15 cm x 21 cm. 29 pages. Original softcover pamphlet. Excellent condition withminor signs of external wear. Rusty staples.

2. Banks, Elizabeth / Harpur, Jerry (photographer).

Creating Period Gardens.

Oxford, Phaidon, 1991. 24 cm x 27 cm. 240 pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

3. Bowles, E.A.

My Garden in Autumn and Winter.

Facsimile of 1915 edition. Portland, Oregon, Timber Press, 1998. 15 cm x 21 cm. VIII, 282 pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

4. Bowles, E.A.

My Garden in Spring.

Facsimile of 1914 edition. Portland, Oregon, Timber Press, 1997. 14.5 cm x 21 cm. XX, 322 pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Contains a few notes and underlinings in pencil.

5. Bowles, E.A.

My Garden in Summer.

Facsimile of 1914 edition. Portland, Oregon, Timber Press, 1998. 15 cm x 21 cm. VIII, 331 pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Contains a few underlinings in pencil by preowner.

6. Brickell, Christopher (editor-in-chief).

The Royal Horticultural Society Gardeners’ Encyclopedia of Plants and Flowers.

London, Dorling Kindersley, 1990. 23 cm x 29 cm. 608 pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

7. Bryant, Geoff.

The Ultimate New Zealand Gardening Book. Edited by Geoff Bryant.

Second Edition. New Zealand, David Bateman, 1995. 22cm x 28.5cm. 528 pages. Original Hardcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear.

8. Cook, E.T.

Gardening For Beginners: A Handbook to the Garden.

Third edition. London, Country Life / George Newnes Ltd., 1904. 15 x 23.5cm. (7), 559 pages, with drawings and black and white plates. Original hardcover with gilt lettering on spine and cover. In protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear to spine and some mild foxing internally. Pre-owner’s name on half-title page. From the “Country Life Library” series.

9. Cook, E.T.

Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens.

Second edition. London, George Newnes Ltd. / Country Life, 1908. 14.5 x 23cm. (14), 500 pages, with black and white plates throughout. Original hardcover with gilt lettering. Slightly foxed, minor signs of shelf wear to spine, otherwise very good condition. From the ‘Country Life’ Library series.

10. Daly, Gerry.

A Gardening Year. Illustrations by Melanie le Brocquy.

Birr, Blue Moon Books, 1992. 15 cm x 21 cm. 269 pages including 12 back and white line drawing. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Out of print.

11. Dillon, Helen.

On Gardening.

Dublin, A. & A. Farmar Ltd., 2010. 14 cm x 21.5 cm. XI, 243 pages. Original illustrated softcover. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear.

12. Earle, Mrs. C.W.

Pot-Pourri From A Surrey Garden / More Pot-Pourri From A Surrey Garden. With an appendix by Lady Constance Lytton.

Ninth Edition / Fourth Impression. Two Volumes together. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1897-1900. 14.5 x 21.5cm. Volume I: (12), 381 pages / Volume II: 453 pages. Original hardcover with gilt lettering on spine. Some foxing to several pages, signs of shelf wear to spine. Bindings bumped, otherwise in very good condition with bookblocks firm.

13. Eucalyptus – Turnbull, J.W. / Eldridge, K.G./Orme, R.K./ Walduck, T.G. / Potts, B.M. / Griffin, A.R. / Paton, D.M. / Harwood, C.E. / Destremau, D.X. and many others.

Colloque International sur les Eucalyptus Résistants au froid [International Conference on Eucalyptus Resistance to cold / frost]. [Includes for example: The natural environment of eucalyptus as the basis for selecting frost resistant species, Natural variation in Eucalyptus gunnii Hook F., Eucalyptus from Tasmania’s cold country, Physiology of frost resistance in eucalyptus etc. etc. etc. 26-30 septembre 1983 Bordeaux-France.

Nangis, 1983. 8°. 652 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition.

14. [Fish, Margery] Clark, Timothy.

Margery Fish: Country Gardening.

Woodbridge, Garden Art Press, 2000. 22 cm x 28 cm. 192 pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

15. Hobhouse, Penelope / Galletti, Giorgio.

Gardens of Italy: A touring guide to over 100 of the best gardens.

London, Mitchell Beazley, 1998. 16 cm x 24.5 cm. 144 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

16. Hoffmann, Doris + Achim.

Peppermint Farm & Garden: Herb Catalogue.

Bantry, Doris + Achim Hoffmann, No year (c. 2000). 15 cm x 21 cm. 24 pages. Original pamphlet / Softcover. Near Fine. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

17. Hofgärtner Wendland / Hofgärtner Tatter / Hofgärtner Bayer.

Verzeichniss der aus den Königlichen Gärten zu Herrenhausen bei Hannover verkäuflich abzugebenden Pflanzen, Bäume und Gesträuche.

Hannover, Klindworth’s Hof-Druckerei, 1878. Octavo (14 cm x 21.7 cm). 32 Seiten. Softcover / Dekorativ bedruckter Originalumschlag des 19.Jahrhunderts. Umschlag mit kleinerem Ausriß (c.3 x 2 cm). Etwas angerändert. Sehr selten !

18. Howells, John.

Choosing your Clematis.

Woodbridge, Garden Art Press, 2000. 15.5 cm x 21.5 cm. 143 pages. Original hardcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

19. Jekyll, Gertrude.

Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur. With 71 illustrations from photographs by the author.

Twelfth Impression. London, Longmans, Green & Co., 1914. 14.5 x 23.5cm. (16), 286 pages. Original hardcover with gilt lettering. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear to spine and corners.

20. [Jekyll, Gertrude], Massingham, Betty.

Gertrude Jekyll 1843 – 1932. An Ilustrated Life of Gertrude Jekyll.

Haverfordwest, Shire Publications, 1992. 15 cm x 21 cm. 48 pages. Original softcover pamphlet. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. [Lifelines 37]

21. Jill Duchess of Hamilton / Hart, Penny / Simmons, John / Berwick, Don (photography).

English Plants for your Garden.

London, Frances Linkcoln Limited, 2000. 23 cm x 28 cm. 176 pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

22. Laird, Mark / Palmer, Hugh (photographer).

The Formal Garden: Traditions of Art and Nature.

London, Thames and Hudson, 1992. 24 cm x 31 cm. 240 pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

23. Loudon, John Claudius / Boniface, Jane (editor).

In Search of English Gardens: The Travels of John Claudius Loudon and his Wife Jane.

Wheathampstead, Leonard Publishing, 1987. 20.5 cm x 26 cm. 256 pages. Original hardcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

24. Loxton, Howard (editor).

The Garden.

London, Thames and Hudson, 1991. 15.5 cm x 34 cm. 336 pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

25. Menzies, Yve.

Mediterranean Gardening: A Practical Handbook.

London, John Murray, 1991. 16 cm x 24 cm. VII, 191 pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Contains a few notes and underlinings in pencil by preowner.

26. Mitford, Mary Russell / Marsack, Robyn (editor) / Kay, Pamela (illustrator).

My Garden: Selected from the letters and recollections of Mary Russell Mitford.

London, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1990. 20 cm x 24 cm. 160 pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

27. National Council for the Conservation of Plants and Gardens.

The National Plant Collections Directory 1991.

Rawlingson Lane Publicity Ltd., 1991. 14.5 cm x 21 cm. 90 pages including various photographs and a loose errata page. Original softcover. Excellent condition with minor signs of external wear.

28. [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.

29. [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.

30. Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (Herausgegeben).

Der Kleingarten – Landwirtschaftlicher Sonderlehrgang. 1. Teil.

Frankfurt / Oder, Trowitzsch & Sohn, 1942. 14.5 cm x 21 cm. 320 pages. Several black and white illustrations and some photographs throughout. Original Softcover. Very good- condition with signs of external wear. Covers foxed. Pages tanned. Previous owner’s name in pencil to title page. [Soldatenbriefe zur Berufsförderung (41. Sammelband der Schriftenreihe)].

31. O’Kane, Finola.

Landscape Design in Eighteenth-Century Ireland – Mixing Foreign Trees with the Natives.

Cork, Cork University Press, 2004. Quarto. XI, 211 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent, as new condition.

32. Ottewill, David.

The Edwardian Garden.

New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1989. 27.5 cm x 29 cm. X, 230 pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

33. Plumptre, George / Palmer, Hugh (photographer).

Garden Ornament: Five Hundred Years of History and Practice.

London, Thames and Hudson, 1989. 24 cm x 31 cm. 256 pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

34. Ramsay, Alex / Attlee, Helena / Joyce, David (editor).

Italian Gardens: A Visitors Guide.

London, Robertson McCarta Limited, 1989. 19 cm x 25 cm. 191 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

35. Robinson, William.

The Wild Garden.

Facsimile of 1894 Edition. London, The Scolar Press, 1977. 15 cm x 23 cm. XXXIV, 304 pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

36. Rose, Graham / King, Peter.

Green Words. The Sunday Times Book of Garden Quotations.

London / Melbourne / New York Quartet Books, 1986. 13 cm x 20 cm. XII, 214 pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

37. Ross, Stephanie.

What Gardens Mean.

Chicago and London, The University of Chicago Press, 1989. 22 cm x 24 cm. XIV, 271 pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Contains some notes in pencil by pre-owner.

38. Sackville-West, Vita.

In Your Garden.

London, Michael Joseph. 1953. 13.5 cm x 20.5 cm. 231 pages. Original Hardcover. Excellent condition with minor signs of external wear. Some browning of endpaper. Imprint of original dustjacket visible on cover.

39. [Sackville-West, Vita] Scott-James, Anne.

Sissinghurst: The Making of a Garden.

London, Michael Joseph, 1974. 16 cm x 24 cm. 160 pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Contains a few underlinings in pencil by preowner.

40. [Sackville-West, Vita], Brown, Jane.

Vita’s Other World: A Gardening Biography of V. Sackville-West.

London etc., Penguin Books, 1987. 19 cm x 24.5 cm. 240 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

41. [Saunders, Richard] Rider, Cardanus.

Rider’s British Merlin: For the Year of our Lord 1799. Being the Third after Bissextile or Leap-Year. Adorned with many delightful and useful Verities, fitting all Capacities in the Islands of Great Britain’s Monarchy. With notes of Husbandry, Fairs, Marts, High Roads and Tables for many necessary uses. Compiled for the Country’s Benefit by Cardanus Rider. [With: “The Arms of the Peers, Peeresses &c. of England, Scotland & Ireland the Insignia of the Different Orders of Knighthood with the Baronets of Great Britain and the Dates of their Creations” [With: “Heraldry in Miniature” / Including a small section to the end of the publication with “British Governments in America and the West-Indies with Upper Canada – Lower Canada – Cape Breton – Virgin Island – Montserrat – Grenada – Jamaica – Leeward Islands – Barbados [Barbadoes]” etc.]. [ With a section on “Peers, Peeresses and Bishops of Ireland – That are Not Peers of England”].

London, Printed for the Company of Stationers, 1799. Slim-Octavo (9,5 cm x 16 cm). Collation complete with parts of the book interleaved: 60, XXXVI, [122 + 4 misbound planches with coats of arms, pagination incorrect but all plates available that are called for], plus 321 pages [House of Peers of Great Britain with misprinted pagination to the beginning of the 321 pages]. Original Hardcover / 18th century or early 19th century red leather. Stronger rubbed but firm and intact binding. Interior with tear to page 15/16, some minor foxing and browning only, some writing to interleaved pages in a child’s hand. All plates with Heraldic Bearings, Coat of Arms, Emblemata, Badges etc. included. Here the rare 1799 publication with over 500 examples of Heraldry of Ireland, Scotland and England. Includes Irish Earls, Irish Barons, Irish Archbishops, Irish Viscounts, etc. [Coat of Arms of Fingal, Glandore, Lisburne, Winterton, Arran, Barrymore, Marq. Donegall, Clanricarde, Fife, Lowth, Upper Ossory etc. etc.]

42. Schmuki, Leo.

Biologischer Garten- und Landbau aus Erster Hand. vom Praktiker für den Praktiker. Der gangbare Weg für Erwerbs- und Privatgärtner.

Wien, Wilhelm Braumüller, 1986. 16.5 cm x 24 cm. 216 pages. Several black and white illustrations throughout and some colour plates also. Original Softcover spiral bound with stiff card illustrated covers. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Internal pages clean. Corners slightly bumped. Two price tags on cover.

43. Thacker, Christopher.

The Genius of Gardening: The History Gardens in Britain and Ireland.

London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1994. 17 cm x 24 cm. 352 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent, close to new condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

44. Thomas, Graham Stuart.

Perennial Garden Plants or The Modern Florilegium. A concise account of herbaceous plants, including bulbs, for general garden use.

Third Edition. London, J.M Dent / The Royal Horticultural Society, 1993. 15.5 cm x 25 cm. XVI, 463 pages including many photographs and illustrations. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

45. Whalley, Robin / Jennings, Anne.

Knot Gardens and Parterres: A History of the Knot Garden and How to Make One Today.

London, Barn Elms Publishing, 1998. 16 cm x 24 cm. 160 pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with minor signs of external wear. Cover faded along spine.