Search Results: Botany and Gardening from Old Saratoga Books

Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Very Good with no dust jacket; Slipcase lightly rubbed.. 1990. Reprint. Hardcover. 0395554136 . xii, 175pp. Green cloth with gilt design by Margaret Armstrong on front boards. Housed in gray paper-covered cardboard slipcase with printed paper label on side. Reprint of enlarged and illustrated 1902 edition of Dana's description of some northeastern US wildflowers, first published in 1894. Color plates by Elise Louise Shaw. Prefatory note by editor Frances Tenenbaum. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Ipswich, MA: Self Published. Very Good; Wraps toned and soiled, longitudinal crease, edges chipped.. 1877. Softcover. Original printed gray wraps. 6 x 9 inches. 1952 typed book purchase receipt laid in from Mass. Horticultural Society with offsetting to inside cover and title page. Bound in at rear is printed slip advertising Haskell’s selection of 30 grape vine cuttings for $100. The author describes his efforts to grow and hybridize grapes on his coastal Massachusetts estate, including his efforts to collect wild grape specimens, grafting native and foreign vines, and cross-fertilization. Also describes forty of his successful varieties. Gabler 23350. Amerine & Borg 1656. OCLC locates 15 copies. Only one other copy noted for sale in the trade at time of listing. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 18 pages .

Boston: David R. Godine. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly worn.. 1979. Hardcover. 0879232757 . An interesting gardening book about how to grow unusual vegetables like salsify, horehound, watercress, burdock, and many others. Lovely illustrations by Barry Moser. xiv, 237 pp. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

London: Reaktion Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket rubbed.. 2004. First Printing. Hardcover. 1861892187 . Green cloth. Black and white photos, references, acknowledgments, and index. The Afterlife of Gardens examines the ways that gardens have been experienced and how these experiences have been recorded noting the different kinds of movement within gardens, from the strolling pedestrians to the motorway traveler who experience landscapes at speed. (from the front jacket flap) ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 254 pages .

Harrisburg, PA: Edwin K. Meyers, State Printer. Good with no dust jacket; Front free endpaper loose and has State . representative's label, boards worn, owner name on front flyleaf.. 1887. Hardcover. Original brown cloth binding. The Tenth Annual Report of the Pennsyvania Baord of Agricutlure, for the Year 1886. Many illustrations of livestock, insects, and agricultural machinery. Three color plates of fruit. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

NY: DK Publishing. Very Good. 2003. First American Edition; Fifth Printing. Softcover. 0789494957 . Foreword, black and white photos and illustrations, color photos and illustrations, maps, appendices, index, and photo credits. A comprehensive guide to gardening in the Northeast. More than 3,000 plants that grow well in the Northeast. Over 2500 full color photos. Step-by-step sequences show gardening techniques clearly. From the rear cover. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 400 pages .

NY: D. Van Nostrand Company. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Boards rubbed and bumped along bottom edge, . jacket chipped and torn with tape repairs.. 1949. First Printing. Hardcover. Green cloth. xxv, 453pp. Color and black and white photos, glossary, selected bibliography, and index. Over 2000 varieties of wild flowers are presented with photos, descriptions, and notable locations with an indexing reference plan for ease of use. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Chicago: Albert Whitman & Company. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn and rear cover waterstained.. 1927. Hardcover. Navy cloth with color illustration pasted on front boards. Lots of elegant black and white illustrations by Schacherer. A compilation of poems, quotes, and short prose pieces about the importance and beauty of trees. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 64 pages .

London: Collins. Good with no dust jacket; Edges rubbed, spine faded, owner name on front . free endpaper.. 1950. First Printing. Hardcover. Green cloth. xxxi, 304pp. Color frontispiece illustration, color plates, black and white plates, notes, appendices, and index. A general survey of the development of botanical illustration from the crude scratchings of paleolithic man down to the highly scientific work of the present day (from preface). A volume in The New Naturalist, A Survey of British Natural History series.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith and Gibbs Smith. Very Good; Autographed copy sticker on front cover.. 1991. First Printing. Softcover. 0879053240 . Signed by the author and the photographer on the half title page. Notes, acknowledgements, and color photographs. A beautiful copy of this natural history study. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 86 pages .

NY: Penguin Studio. Very Good. 1998. First Printing. Softcover. 0140272089 . Xxii, 218pp. Foreword, green and white illustrations, and index. A complete A to Z guide that defines the enemy - from beavers to problem birds and coyotes to woodchucks - and discusses the animals' habitats and the diseases they carry. (from the rear cover) ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

NY: Kodansha International. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Edges and jacket lightly worn.. 2001. First American Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 4770025106 . Green cloth. Black and white and color photos, black and white and color illustrations, afterword, notes, glossary, index, photo credits, and acknowledgements. With illuminating text and over 250 exquisite photographs, illustrations, and artwork, Best reveals the intricacies and resources of this lovely versatile plant. She explores the Japanese reverence for bamboo's natural beauty, adding immeasurably to our knowledge of the Asian sensibility and lifestyle." ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 224 pages .

Boston: D. Lothrop & Company. Fair with no dust jacket; Boards worn and soiled, front free endpaper . loose, library stamps and markings.. 1882. Hardcover. Fourteen lovely color plates of fern species after water-colors by Faxon and Emerton. Two plates detached and tattered at edges. Brown decorative beveled cloth. All edges gilt. ; Ex-Library; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 158 pages .

Philadelphia: Wilmer Atkinson Co.. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed.. 1908. Second Edition. Hardcover. Blue decorative cloth. Index, many black and white photos and illustrations. 20 color plates of fruit. A beautifully-illustrated, winsomely-written, pocket-sized guide to growing and harvesting apples, pears, cherries, quince, nuts, peaches, and plums. ; 24mo 5" - 6" tall; 144 pages .

Arnhem: S. Gouda Quint. Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn and foxed.. 1948. Hardcover. 120 gorgeous color plates of flowers, including hyacinths, tulips, rhododendrons, dahlias, coreopsis, etc. Text in Dutch. Red cloth boards. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 167 pages .

NY: The A. T. De La Mare Company. Very Good in Fair dust jacket; Jacket tattered and soiled and missing . chunk at heel of spine.. 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Index, many b/w photos. Navy cloth binding with color photo of flowering shrub on front boards. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 371 pages .

London: MacMillan and Co. , Ltd.. Good with no dust jacket; Spine extremities chipped, spine cocked, owner . name embossed on front free endpaper.. 1902. Revised Edition. Hardcover. xvi, 194 pp. Dark green cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine. 130 engravings of wild flowers and their parts. Glossary, index, two pages of publisher's ads. ; Nature Series .

London: Robert Harwicke. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards lightly worn, spine sunned, neat . penciled notes on verso of ffep and lower edge of first three botanical . plates.. [1874]. Hardcover. Published in four parts and bound in green cloth titled in gilt on spine by R. H. Porter, as noted by stamp on front pastedown endpaper. 16 hand colored plates of the various species of Hepaticae, or liverworts. Lovely, delicately colored plates of these bryophytes and authoritative botanical descriptions by the noted British botanist. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 88 pages .

London and Glasgow: Gowans and Gray. Good in Good dust jacket; Japon paper cover is waterstained and soiled, glassine jacket is tattered. 1907 Third Printing. Softcover. A finely detailed and delicate book of botanical illustrations by Jesse M. [Marion] King (1875-1949) , one of the Glasgow Girls, an influential group of Scottish artists active at the turn-of-the-century. This volume features three different images of women outside next to blossoming plants on the front cover, half-title and title page, followed by fourteen full-page illustrations of various flowering trees and shrubs. The front cover image is printed in color on translucent Japon paper, while the remaining illustrations are in black and white and printed on cream-colored laid paper. The original glassine jacket bears a price stamp of 1/- NET on front panel. Budding plant illustrations include Sallow Catkins, Apple Blossom, Daphne, Chestnut Tree, Lilac, Whin Blossom, Honeysuckle, Bramble Blossom, Blackthorn/Sloe, Wild Rose,… Read More

Portland, OR: Timber Press and North American Rock Garden Society. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly scuffed.. 2001. Hardcover. 088192511X . Color photos section, sources, index. Of interest to rock gardeners, horticulturists, and those interested in the four dozen North American bulb genera. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 251 pages .