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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Anglais.Reliure cuir muette.11eme edition.1 planche en frontispiece.616 pages,index.Ce livre a ete dans la famille "BAULDRY" a partir de 1791.Poids 600 gr.Format 18,5 x11,5 cm.T.B.E.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 2nd Edition. Hardback revised edition from 1784. Scarce. Quarter leather with marbled boards. 336pp. Complete with preface and contents page. Good overall with some browning and the occasional spot and creased corner. One original endpaper with notes in old hand on a previous owner is pasted over front pastedown.…

pp.viii, 344. Small 8vo. Hardback. Some charming early annotations to title-page and verso. Further charming inscription to p.272. Minor spotting, a few other minor indications of age o/w. contents fine. Loosely inserted is a simple early handwritten 'Receipt for the Gout' and a small, faded, ghostly photograph of a child in a snowy garden. More recent half calf and cloth binding very lightly marked o/w. in fine condition. A very pleasing copy indeed. Fullmer was a nurseryman at 'Horse-ferry-road, near Chelsea'. This, along with his other, book was sold at his seed shop in Maiden Lane, Covent Garden (Henrey). It is arranged alphabetically by English name and is full of practical advice. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Hardback, no dust-wrapper.(2),ii-iv, 1-184, 184*, 185*, 185-263, (1), (ii)pp. 16.5cm x 10cm. Contemporary full calf, Some splitting hinges, chipping to edges of boards, slight loss to spine ends, with a small abrasion towards centre of spine. Annotations to front pastedown and rear end-papers. Front free end-paper repaired with tape. A well worn copy of a scarce book. [Henrey 727]. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Thirteenth Edition. A still remarkably sturdy, quite attractive, tightly bound hardcover copy of the stated Thirteenth Edition of a popular and influential treatise on gardening, the first edition having been published in 1767. The first publication appeared under the name of "Thomas Mawe &c.", retained here but joined by John Abercrombie, who was considered the real name of the author, depicted at frontispiece portraits of other editions. Abercrombie was the Master Gardener for the Earl of Leeds. Clean, lightly toned interior, minimal rubbing to extremities. Rag paper is supple and bright yet. Full calf leather, with seven gilt rules to spine, and gilt title, rubbed, over burgundy label. Hinges and joints are both tight and firm. Engraved frontispiece is precious, depicting an Englishman digging a hole, watering can at-foot, with ladies and gentlemen in the background; quite fetching. John Abercrombie (1726?1806) was a Scottish horticulturist who is famous for innovations in gardening tools and techniques and taught Botany at the University of Cambridge for a time. He apprenticed at the Royal Gardens at Kew, and at Leicester House (Wikipedia). Frontis matter, 2-616 [24] pp., with a remarkably complete Index.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.…

pp. (ii) Title, ii Preface, 486, (xii) Index, (ii) blank. Engraved frontispiece. Full period calf, sometime rebacked, the spine ends worn with slight loss at the foot, top corners repaired, joints intact, text very good.