67 engraved folding plates (some light offsetting; occasional foxing). 16 volumes (complete). 8vo, over 500 pages per volume, contemporary half straight-grained morocco (some wear to extremities; several lower corners bumped; occasional foxing; marginal s...

First Series. Volume 1. 16 engraved plates (4 are hand-colored; 3 are folding; the colored plates include Crocus stellaris, an apple - The Spring-Grove Codlin, the Red Doyenne pear & the Variegated Chasselas - a grape; 2 plain folding plates include: Poli...

Woodcut illustrations. 4to, pp. (16, including half-title), 508, contemporary limp vellum (lacking ties; scattered light foxing; a few small stains to half-title; browning to an upper corner of a few pp.), Barcelona: Maria Angela Marti Viuda, 1762. First...

9 half-tone plates after Harry Fenn and J.C. Earl. 8vo, pp. vii, 385, on laid paper, original decorative red cloth (some flecking to rear cover; owner's signature on front free endpaper; an owner's signature on the margin near the gutter of the half title...

A folding engraved plate (2 dampstains to outer margin). 4to, pp. (3-) 288, (3), modern 1/4 mottled sheep (lacks title)....

The Praedium is a collection of Estienne's texts on agriculture and horticulture and "represents the most complete account of agriculture and horticulture in the 16th century. It consists of Charles Estienne's botanical works...[De re hortensi; Seminariu...

Square quarto. 168pp. Illustrated through out with color photographs. Stiff pictorial gate fold wrappers, As New. // With text by 22 International Garden Festival designers, the book offers a portrait of contemporary thinking on the art of the garden...

39 folding hand-colored engraved plates (the fold to a plate is professionally reinforced on the back with archival paper; the margin near the fore-edge of a plate is soiled and lightly chipped), including 12 plates of apples, 8 plates of pears and 19 pla...

8vo, pp. (4), vi [i.e., iv], 8, lxxx, 139, iv, (1), contemporary mottled calf (a dampstain to the upper corner of a few pp.; some minor foxing), boards gilt-ruled, spine gilt-decorated, Paris: Ruault, 1774. First edition of a work on the cultivation of th...

"Tiraboschi spoke of him as one of the best astronomers of the time and a friend of Kepler. Tomasini represented him as making correct predictions to the leading men of Bologna from their nativities, as abandoning the Alphonsine hypotheses for the Coperni...