timber press edition first edition (31 resultados)

Paperback. Condición: Fair. First Edition. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. First Edition. With dust jacket. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Paperback. Condición: Fair. First Edition, First Printing. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. First Edition. With dust jacket. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. First Edition. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. With dust jacket. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Paperback. Condición: Fair. First Edition. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way. Workbook.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. With dust jacket. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. First Edition. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Octavo, burgundy boards, 271 pp. Color plates, b&w photos, illus., maps. Fine. Gardening, Horticuture, Botany, Natural History, Rhododendrons. DWS.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good with very good dust jacket. Dust jacket has a one inch tear at top back edge and is lightly bumped at top of spine and at top corner of front flap. 267 pages with two indexes and over 125 color illustrations. 4to size.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good with very good dust jacket. Dust jacket is bumped along top edges and at bottom corners and is very lightly faded on spine. 220 pages with index, bibliography and text drawings plus 24 pages of color photographs.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. First Edition Second Printing. With dust jacket. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

small 4to [25 x 19 cm]; 124 pp, color frontis from painting, numerous color illustrations including full-page, plus many illustrations from drwgs, glossary, lists of climbers for different conditions, index. original pictorial boards, dj, fine. A detailed reference work covering clematis, honeysuckles, climbing roses, vines, ivies, and many others with practical advice. Chapters include climbing plants in the wild and in the garden, care of climbers, pests and diseases, climbing plants in the greenhouse and conservatory and an alphabetical listing of hundreds of varieties with descriptions and growing conditions. A picture of this book is available on request.

A hard cover publication of 151 pages, large 8vo. The book has a variety of colour and b / w. illustrations, distribution maps, colour plates by Christabel King. The book is in fine condition and the complete d / w. is near fine. A Kew Magazine Monograph.

Cloth, 8vo, 433 pp, 8 pp colour plates Over 600 entries in bibliography. A fascinating and well-illustrated study of the literature (especially European) of fruit from antiquity to the early 19th century, coupled with a detailed bibliography of over 600 fruit-related works. The author, a lifelong expert in the field, surveys the history of fruit cultivation and its literature in 17 broadly chronological chapters covering: fruit texts of antiquity and the Middle Ages; organizing fruit literature; Renaissance printings of old and new fruit texts; literary reflections of a growing fruit interest; early books with woodcuts of fruit; emergence of literary fruit fanciers; fruit literature following the thirty-years war; orchardist-authors to Louis XIV; fruit books generated by Commonwealth and Restoration; fruit - a topic of connoisseurs, clerics and gardeners; the Jeffersonian literary approach to fruit; writings about unusual and special fruit aspects; fruit literature of the enlightenment and revolution; ushering in scientific fruit literature; evolution and masters of fruit illustration; and fruit books for the bourgeoisie. This highly readable conspectus is followed by a valuable 100 page bibliography, arranged alphabetically by author, which details some 600 important books on fruit and describes their contents. With an index of names. Top edge of textblock smokestained, with minor staining to top edges of a few leaves otherwise Near Very Good in Near Very Good dustwrapper.

Cloth, 8vo, 433 pp, 8 pp colour plates Over 600 entries in bibliography. A fascinating and well-illustrated study of the literature (especially European) of fruit from antiquity to the early 19th century, coupled with a detailed bibliography of over 600 fruit-related works. The author, a lifelong expert in the field, surveys the history of fruit cultivation and its literature in 17 broadly chronological chapters covering: fruit texts of antiquity and the Middle Ages; organizing fruit literature; Renaissance printings of old and new fruit texts; literary reflections of a growing fruit interest; early books with woodcuts of fruit; emergence of literary fruit fanciers; fruit literature following the thirty-years war; orchardist-authors to Louis XIV; fruit books generated by Commonwealth and Restoration; fruit - a topic of connoisseurs, clerics and gardeners; the Jeffersonian literary approach to fruit; writings about unusual and special fruit aspects; fruit literature of the enlightenment and revolution; ushering in scientific fruit literature; evolution and masters of fruit illustration; and fruit books for the bourgeoisie. This highly readable conspectus is followed by a valuable 100 page bibliography, arranged alphabetically by author, which details some 600 important books on fruit and describes their contents. With an index of names. Top edge of textblock smokestained, with minor staining to top edges of a few leaves otherwise Near Very Good in Near Very Good dustwrapper.

8vo [23 x 15 cm]; 542 pp, over 450 color photos, glossary, index. original pictorial stiff paper wraps, very fine and clean, unmarked (as new). A superbly illustrated and comprehensive work found in gardens of the tropics, each plant with precise descriptions allowing for accurate identification of tropical ornamentals, with geographical ranges and plant properties, each with information on propagation and ideal growing conditions. Two appendices present the 20 most common families of ornamental tropicals, the other an innovative identification key. A picture of this book is available on request.

small 4to [25 x 19 cm]; 212 pp, frontis, numerous illustrations including color, including full-page, list of Miller's books and editions, bibliog, index. original red cloth, gilt spine title lettering, dj (slightly rubbed at head of spine), fine and clean copy. Miller, the outstanding gardener of the eighteenth century and author of Gardeners Dictionary and others, was very influential, including of Joseph Banks, John Ray, Hans Sloane, Linnaeus, etc. Rougetel provides a clear biography with a fascinating overview of events of the time. William T. Stearn contributed a chapter on the botanical importance of Miller. A picture of this book is available on request.

8vo [23 x 16 cm]; 190 pp, over 200 color photos, plus many colored illustrations from drwgs, glossary, bibliog, list of fern societies, index. original pictorial boards, title lettering on cover and spine, dj (not price clipped), a fine, clean and unused copy. A detailed and very well-illustrated survey of these ferns by renowned botanist who travelled extensively to study and photograph them, including chapters on ferns in folklore and superstition, economic uses, propagation, cultivation, habitats, species. A picture of this book is available on request.

Condición: Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original slate grey cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered silver back. 4to. 11½'' x 9''. Contains 192 pp with colour photographs throughout. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped, $34.95. Member of the P.B.F.A. GARDEN & HORTICULTURE.

8vo [24 x 16 cm]; lxiii, [iii], 388 pp, hundreds of detailed illustrations from drawings, including many full-page, glossary, bibliog. original green cloth with gilt spine title lettering, dj (short tear on rear panel, not price clipped), else clean and fine copy. A comprehensive manual covering all orchid species, grexes and cultivars, each genus with botany, growing guidelines, and with a detailed introduction on propagation, hybridization, conservation, culture. A picture of this book is available on request.

8vo [24 x 16 cm]; lxiii, [iii], 388 pp, hundreds of detailed illustrations from drawings, including many full-page, glossary, bibliog. original green cloth with gilt spine title lettering, dj, clean, fresh and fine copy. A comprehensive manual covering all orchid species, grexes and cultivars in cultivation, each genus with botany, growing guidelines, and with a detailed introduction on propagation, hybridization, conservation, culture. The introduction covers all themes common to all orchids. A picture of this book is available on request.

8vo [24 x 18 cm]; x, 150 pp, 43 color and 23 black & white illus., bibliog, list of genera, glossary, index. original cloth, dj (price clipped, slightly used), else fine and clean. A useful well-illustrated book covering all aspects including how to grow, propagation, biology, origin, ecology and listing numerous varieties of Bromelioideae, Pitcairnioideae and Tillandioidea (Tillandsia) and lesser known genera. A picture of this book is available on request.

Condición: Near Fine. First US edition hard back binding in publisher's original dusky pink paper covered boards, gilt title and author lettering to the spine, pink end papers. Quarto 10½'' x 7½''. Contains 147 printed pages of text with monochrome illustrations and colour photographs throughout. Tiny rubs to the lower spine tips. Near Fine condition book in near Fine condition dust wrapper with a little wear to the spine ends and shelf rubs to the black of the panels. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0881920991 BOTANY (Phytology).