Hardcover. Rochester, Chase Brothers Company, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Flexible tan cloth covers, 134 pages. Illustrated with beautiful, bright, full color illustrations and blow-in sheets of flowers and fruit. A fine, bright copy. No date but appears to be early 1900s.
Softcover. Evansville, Evansville Museum of Arts & Science, First Edition, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 32 pages. Softcover SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY ARTIST to title page. Bright illustration to covers with french flaps, published to accompany the exhibition of the same title held at the Evansville Museum of Arts & Science, Evansville, Indiana, April 22 - May 27, 1990 among other touring locations.
Hardcover. Austin, University of Texas Press , 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 249 pages, color photos. Green cloth, gilt title on spine. No dust jacket. Faint foxing to top edge and end papers. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Toronto, Fruit Growers' Assoc. of Ontario, 1st, 1884, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A year's bound collection (Jan.- Dec. 1884) of the journal. Features eight bright color lithographs of flowers and fruit. One black & white plate. Portrait of editor Beadle. 295 pages. Half-leather with marbled boards. Spine with gilt lettering, label, raised bands.
Hardcover. Toronto, Fruit Growers' Assoc. of Ontario, 1st, 1885, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A year's bound collection (Jan.-Dec. 1885) of the journal. Features 12 bright color lithographs of flowers & fruit. 292 pages. Half-leather with marbled boards with light corner wear. Spine with gilt lettering, label, raised bands.
Hardcover. Boston, New York Graphic Society , 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Folio, 160 pages illustrated with the plant paintings and drawings of Georg Dionysius Ehret. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Merrell Holberton/Natural History Museum, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 128 pages, 62 color plates, 33 b&w illustrations. A detailed monograph on this early 19th century natural history artist. In publisher's shrinkwrap.
Hardcover. Portland, OR, Timber Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 273 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped and pristine. Gilt title on spine. Binding tight. Clean inside and out. In excellent shape.
Hardcover. US, Bulfinch, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 139 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket with small tear to upper edge. Clean, tight copy. Foliage is an amazing plant book filled with artistic photos of "the architecture of nature." Close-up photos fill the 13" x 11" pages. From grasses and ferns, edibles, leaf coloration, cati and succulents, the essence of green, to seeds of change the reader is in for a visual treat.
Hardcover. New York, W.W. Norton, 2nd, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 627 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to edges. Color pictures in center.
Hardcover. New York, George Braziller Incorporated, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 192 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Heavy damage on 2 inches of bottom right corner. Otherwise, tight copy. Color pictures throughout. Endlessly experimenting with design, composition, and color, Hiroshige captured in these paintings, as no where else in his work, his poetic and idyllic sense of nature.
Hardcover. privately printed, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 64 pages. With over 60 beautiful color plates, this gorgeous book of flower photographs is bound to appeal to a wide audience of anyone interested in Nature, Beauty, Meditation or Art. Tenneson explores the world of botanicals in a way that is completely unique. These photographs transcend mere documentation; they encourage the viewer to see flowers in a whole new way. Joyce Tenneson's breathtaking photographs have graced the covers of major magazines, as well as museums and galleries. Her ethereal portraits of roses, tulips, poppies and other garden blooms also come accompanied by select quotes from authors such as Emily Dickinson, William Carlos Williams, and Anais Nin.
Hardcover. London, George Routledge and Sons, unknown , nd., Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, A small book, illustrated by Kate Greenaway. Soiling to spine & covers. Edgewear. Corners rubbed, bumped. Previous owner's bookplate and booksellers label front pastedown. Some soiling throughout, otherwise good. Spots on spine.
Softcover. New York, Andrew Crispo Gallery, Inc., 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 74 color and B&W illustrations. Foreword by Andrew J. Crispo. Overall very tight and clean copy.
Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic Society, 1st, 1917, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, illustrated with b&w photos, maps, advertisements. Original yellow and black wrappers, spine with light wear, good to very good. Articles include: Our State Flowers (16 color pages), Our First Alliance, Madonnas of Many Lands.
Hardcover. London, Scriptum, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 335 pages illustrated in color. The story of this flower, from the hunt for new varieties in the wild in the 1800s to the development of the more than 100,000 hybrids that exist today, is related in fascinating detail in "Orchids". This beautiful book features text by one of the world's foremost orchid authorities alongside spectacular watercolor portraits of prize-winning orchids from the Royal Horticultural Society in London, which spearheaded orchid cultivation in Western Europe beginning in the 19th century. This exquisite collection of paintings commissioned by the RHS every year since 1897 represents the ultimate orchid pictorial history. "Orchids" is an indispensable sourcebook for those captivated by the beauty and infinite variety of this glamorous flower.
Hardcover. New York, P. Blakiston's Son & Co., 2nd, 1911, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 372 pages. Hardcover. Second edition, revised and enlarged with 152 b/w illustrations. Cover boards bound in deep red cloth. Gilt title on spine. Original owner's dated (Sept. 10, 1912) signature on front endpaper. flyleaf and back endpaper. In very good condition for its age. Half title page partially separated from gutter, but still attached. Binding still quite tight. Illustrations incredibly detailed. Pages slightly age-yellowed. A little bit of age-wearing to cover boards, but overall in great shape.
NY, Greenwillow Books, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Anita Lobel. Previous owner's inscription on front paste-down endpaper. Price blacked out on dust jacket front flap. "In this fine book in which text and illustration build upon each other...cumulative verse unites with watercolor illustrations to convey the simple story of a garden's solitude being overturned by a fieldmouse, a cat, and a once-slumbering bee."--School Library Journal.
Hardcover. New York, Sterling Innovation, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 127 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations throughout. Decorated endpapers. Dust jacket sleeve present. Clean inside and out. In good shape. From the back cover: Achieving great artisitc succes and recognition, Edward Steichen brought enthusiasm, curiosity, and passion to the world of photography. This remarkable book offers a fresh take on Steichen by focusing exclusively on his color images from the collections of George Eastman House."
Hardcover. London, Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, reprint, 1849, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 284 pages, illustrated with 24 brilliant color plates including the frontispiece. Original green cloth with gilt decorated front cover, gilt design on spine, top edge gilt. Covers with light edge wear, chipping to top of spine. Title page states New Edition, so assumed a reprint. The plates do not appear to be hand-colored but chromolithographs, all brilliantly colored and except for the frontispiece (which has a touch of foxing) all are clean and unblemished. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. US, Taschen, reprint, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 443 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Light edgewear to dust jacket, otherwise a clean, tight copy. The most famous botanical record ever committed to paper: Basilius Besler's complete Book of Plants of 1613 A magnificent pictorial document of the flowers grown in the greatest German garden of its time, the Book of Plants is in a class of its own when it comes to the variety and range of flowers engraved. Working under Basilius Besler, a team of at least ten engravers worked on this massive project, translating in situ and specimen drawings faithfully to copper plates. Nearly four hundred years old, the book has survived though the gardens did not; they were destroyed by invading Swedish troops in 1634. However, in 1998 a reconstruction of the original garden opened to the public in Eichst?tt. This facsimile's reproductions - structured by seasons - are taken from a hand-painted edition, one of only a few still extant.
Hardcover. New York, G.H. Buek, 1st, 1894, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, oblong light beige cloth with gilt title and decoration. Non-Paginated. Illustrated with 288 clean full color plates. Front and rear hinges cracked but holding with spine cloth. Light wear to covers. Originally published in parts as a Botanical Fine Art Weekly publication.
Hardcover. New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Volume I, in 2 parts, 559 pages total. Green cloth covers, dark green and gilt titles to spine, 180 color plates, endpapers decorated with map of U.S., profusely illustrated with b&w illustrations. Slight edgewear to covers, otherwise very clean, pages extremely crisp and unmarked, stiff bindings; both books in great condition.