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1912161p. + Seven charming full page color plates with titled tissue guards. Color plates illustrated by Charles Robinson are in nice condition. Numerous text drawings. Pictorial title page. Text age stained. Pictorial fly leaves foxed. Tipped in ownership: Mrs. Mark Palmer from A.L. Murphy. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Front cover decorated with gold embossed pictorial of a little angel sitting on a garden urn surrounded with roses. Gilt decorated and lettered spine. Spine faded with slight loss. Hardbound. Four picturesque illustrated stories titled: The Haunted Garden, The Old-Fashioned Garden, The Poor Man's Garden, and The Rich Man's Garden. Nice cndition.**PRICE JUST REDUCED! PLANTS W130
1956pp. viii, 272 + Frontis. Illustrated with numerous photographs. 8vo. Original cloth backed binding. Original dust jacket, worn. Hardbound. First published in 1923 as 'A Little Book of Perennials.' **This copy used for the McFarland 1958 edition, second printing. Illustrations and pages marked. Front fly leaf states "cuts stored in cellar, in cage - 6/3/59. 6 Boxed plates stored in cellar in cage - 1/21/64. No cover. Cut Room Jun 4, 1959". This copy was used in the printing office of J. Horace McFarland (1859-1948). McFarland was one of the first Americans to sound the call for environmental and scenic protection. In 1878, at age nineteen, McFarland opened his printing business and began to publish gardening and seed catalogs. Realizing that woodcuts did not adequately represent the plants, he started to explore the use of photography. By 1894, he was experimenting with color photography and his company had become America's premier publisher of gardening catalogs, with what may have been the first color photographs produced in the US. The success of his publishing business provided McFarland with wealth and security, and freed him to engage extensively in the philanthropy and civic activism he loved. He was recognized as a master gardener whose books and photographs on roses, trees and other subjects were famous across the United States. He wrote more than a dozen books on roses and made the American Rose Society a world-renowned institution. As president, he established a method of rose identification and registration that is still in use today. He was widely known as "Mr. Rose" and was a founder and president of the American Rose Society, which had an international impact on the propagation of roses. His home and garden in the Bellevue Park section of Harrisburg was an internationally famous testing ground for hundreds of new plant species. It contained 5,000 plants including varieties of roses. PLANTS W132
1923Two Parts: pp. 185; 187-362. Profusely illustrated with lovely full page color photographs. Two Hundred and Sixty-Four plates. Folio. Original full cloth bindings, gold lettered spine. Hardbound. Excellent set. PLANTS. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W129
1925237p. + Numerous photographs and line drawings. Very XLib. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Useful study of trees of Pennsylvania. PA 15x2
1935pp. xi, 222 + Photographs. Numerous text drawings. Color decorated title page. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket, with slight loss at extremities. Hardbound. First Edition. Very nice copy. An excellent study of Victorian roses. Though not so marked, probably the copy of J. Horace McFarland. PLANTS W135 x2
1971pp. xiii, 157. Illustrated with numerous photographs, some in color. Mildly XLib. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket, worn. Hardbound. PLANTS W132
1978192p. Illustrated with numerous photographs and drawings. Mildly XLib. 4to. Original cloth backed binding, slightly worn at extremities. Original dust jacket, soiled and torn. Hardbound. PLANTS W131
195124p. Illustrated with cartoon like drawings. Front and rear pages foxed. Oblong 8vo. Original full paper binding illustrated with a cartoon drawing on front cover. Walter Huber (1886-1961) Sports Cartoonist for Philadelphia Inquirer and Bulletin and some Washington, D.C. newspapers, as well as the political cartoonist for the Harrisburg Patriot newspaper. He also served as the Art Director for J. Horace McFarland Co. This copy was used in the printing office of J. Horace McFarland (1859-1948). McFarland was one of the first Americans to sound the call for environmental and scenic protection. In 1878, at age nineteen, McFarland opened his printing business and began to publish gardening and seed catalogs. Realizing that woodcuts did not adequately represent the plants, he started to explore the use of photography. By 1894, he was experimenting with color photography and his company had become America's premier publisher of gardening catalogs, with what may have been the first color photographs produced in the US. The success of his publishing business provided McFarland with wealth and security, and freed him to engage extensively in the philanthropy and civic activism he loved. He was recognized as a master gardener whose books and photographs on roses, trees and other subjects were famous across the United States. He wrote more than a dozen books on roses and made the American Rose Society a world-renowned institution. As president, he established a method of rose identification and registration that is still in use today. He was widely known as "Mr. Rose" and was a founder and president of the American Rose Society, which had an international impact on the propagation of roses. His home and garden in the Bellevue Park section of Harrisburg was an internationally famous testing ground for hundreds of new plant species. It contained 5,000 plants including varieties of roses. Nice copy of an ephemeral book. SCARCE. PLANTS W132
1951pp. xii, 271 + Frontis and full page color photographs. Illustrated with numerous drawings and black and white photographs. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket, clipped and slightly worn at extremities. Hardbound. First Printing. Nice copy. PLANTS W134 x2
1992302p. Illustrated with drawings. Damp staining. 4to. Original printed wraps. Paperback. PLANTS W131
197324p. Each page illustrated with a color drawing. Printed in four colors at the E.A. Johnson Company press. 8vo. Original color printed wraps. Seventh printing in an edition of 5,000 copies. Very nice copy. PLANTS W132
1971291p. Illustrated with numerous photographs and drawings. 8vo. Original printed wraps, loss to top edge of front wrap. A fascinating and useful study of medicinal plants in Appalachia. PLANTS W133
1972pp. viii, 276. Illustrated with numerous photographs and drawings. 8vo. Original printed wraps. Nice copy. PLANTS W133
1955pp. vi, 246 + photographs. Bookplate of Sarah Elizabeth Freeman. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Spine darkened. Hardbound. First published 1943. Nice copy. PLANTS W133
1974216p. Illustrated with drawings. 8vo. Dover paperback. A useful little book. Nice copy. PLANTS W132
1870pp. iv, 663. Woodcut text illustrations. Foxed. Thick 12mo. 130 x 200 mm. Contemporary leather backed marbled boards binding. **NOTE: Cuban booksellers' label: Libreria Espanola y Estrangera de J.E. Abraido, Calle del Obispo no. 63, Entre Habana Y Agular, Hanana (CUBA). A significant standard French text, with a good Cuban association. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! PLANTS W130
1977pp. 349, (39) color plates illustrated by Violette Niestle. Line illustrations by Paul Schauenberg. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket, price clipped. Hardbound. Nice copy of an authoritive work on the subject. PLANTS W130
1844Eight Volumes. Volumes 5, 6, 7 and 8 are plate volumes. Wonderfully illustrated. Bookplate of R. B. Wardlaw Ramsay. 8vo. Original full cloth bindings embossed in blind. Volume one missing spine. Hardbound set. Second edition. The Scotsman, John Claudius Loudon (1783-1843), was the most eminent early 19th century expert on landscapes, gardening, and agriculture. At the age of 20 he visited London and was shocked by the gloomy trees and plantings in the public squares. He published an article, Observations on Laying out the Public Squares of London" in the Literary Journal, in which he recommended the Oriental plane, almond, sycamore, and other lighter trees, instead of the lugubrious plantings that had hitherto been in vogue. His advice gradually prevailed, and the effect is still to be seen in London and throughout the kingdom. Now he was an author, as well as practical workman, and his pen went onward with little intermission for forty years. , until his life terminated. Many of his works were enriched with copperplate engravings of landscape scenery, drawn by himself. He became a successful practitioner and instructor in agriculture, gardening, architecture, botany, etc. His greatest work, which would of itself have been sufficient for any ordinary lifetime, was this Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum," in which he gave an account, with pictorial illustrations, of all the trees, wild or cultivated, that grow in Great Britain. This production, which was published in 1838, at his own risk, was so unsuccessful, that after paying artists and other persons engaged in it, he found himself in debt to the amount of L10,000 to the printer, stationer, and wood-engraver, while the sale of such a splendid publication was so slow, that there was no prospect that it would ever pay its own expenses. Though sick of heart and body, he went on to publish other enormously significant works that are valued today by collectors, historians, scientists, and all who work with plants in any capacity. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! PLANTS W133
194564p. Full page color illustrations by the author. Decorated endpapers. Stamped ownership. 8vo. Original full printed paper binding. Extremities slightly worn. Hardbound. Nice copy. A delightful little book on various nuts, full of botanical information and forgotten lore and legends about nuts. Very scarce. PLANTS W130
1952pp. xi, 361 + Plus color portrait Frontis of J. Horace McFarland and full page color photographs, some photographs in black and white. Pictorial endpapers. 8vo. Original full cloth binding, gold lettered. Original dust jacket, some loss. Hardbound. Fourth edition. ** Very nice copy from the J. Horace McFarland Company proof room. This copy was used in the printing office of J. Horace McFarland (1859-1948). McFarland was one of the first Americans to sound the call for environmental and scenic protection. In 1878, at age nineteen, McFarland opened his printing business and began to publish gardening and seed catalogs. Realizing that woodcuts did not adequately represent the plants, he started to explore the use of photography. By 1894, he was experimenting with color photography and his company had become America's premier publisher of gardening catalogs, with what may have been the first color photographs produced in the US. The success of his publishing business provided McFarland with wealth and security, and freed him to engage extensively in the philanthropy and civic activism he loved. He was recognized as a master gardener whose books and photographs on roses, trees and other subjects were famous across the United States. He wrote more than a dozen books on roses and made the American Rose Society a world-renowned institution. As president, he established a method of rose identification and registration that is still in use today. He was widely known as "Mr. Rose" and was a founder and president of the American Rose Society, which had an international impact on the propagation of roses. His home and garden in the Bellevue Park section of Harrisburg was an internationally famous testing ground for hundreds of new plant species. It contained 5,000 plants including varieties of roses. PLANTS W135 x2
1949192p. + color Frontis. Illustrated with numerous full page color photographs, some in black and white. Numerous text drawings. ** J. Horace McFarland Company's copy with numerous penciled notations and text changes for the 1968 edition. 8vo. Original full cloth binding, decorated and lettered in black. This copy was used in the printing office of J. Horace McFarland (1859-1948). McFarland was one of the first Americans to sound the call for environmental and scenic protection. In 1878, at age nineteen, McFarland opened his printing business and began to publish gardening and seed catalogs. Realizing that woodcuts did not adequately represent the plants, he started to explore the use of photography. By 1894, he was experimenting with color photography and his company had become America's premier publisher of gardening catalogs, with what may have been the first color photographs produced in the US. The success of his publishing business provided McFarland with wealth and security, and freed him to engage extensively in the philanthropy and civic activism he loved. He was recognized as a master gardener whose books and photographs on roses, trees and other subjects were famous across the United States. He wrote more than a dozen books on roses and made the American Rose Society a world-renowned institution. As president, he established a method of rose identification and registration that is still in use today. He was widely known as "Mr. Rose" and was a founder and president of the American Rose Society, which had an international impact on the propagation of roses. His home and garden in the Bellevue Park section of Harrisburg was an internationally famous testing ground for hundreds of new plant species. It contained 5,000 plants including varieties of roses. Hardbound. Nice copy. Unique copy of showing numerous changes. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! PLANTS W135
2001271p. 8vo. Paperback. Nice copy. Pollan tells the story of four domesticated species - the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato, and describes how each has thrived by satisfying humankind's most basic desires. PLANTS W130
1938pp. xxiv, 296 + color Frontis. Profusely illustrated with color photographs. 8vo. Original full cloth binding with some soiling and wear. Very worn dust jacket. Pencil ownership of Mary Lacy (who may have worked for McFarland). Hardbound. First edition. This copy was used in the printing office of J. Horace McFarland (1859-1948). McFarland was one of the first Americans to sound the call for environmental and scenic protection. In 1878, at age nineteen, McFarland opened his printing business and began to publish gardening and seed catalogs. Realizing that woodcuts did not adequately represent the plants, he started to explore the use of photography. By 1894, he was experimenting with color photography and his company had become America's premier publisher of gardening catalogs, with what may have been the first color photographs produced in the US. The success of his publishing business provided McFarland with wealth and security, and freed him to engage extensively in the philanthropy and civic activism he loved. He was recognized as a master gardener whose books and photographs on roses, trees and other subjects were famous across the United States. He wrote more than a dozen books on roses and made the American Rose Society a world-renowned institution. As president, he established a method of rose identification and registration that is still in use today. He was widely known as "Mr. Rose" and was a founder and president of the American Rose Society, which had an international impact on the propagation of roses. His home and garden in the Bellevue Park section of Harrisburg was an internationally famous testing ground for hundreds of new plant species. It contained 5,000 plants including varieties of roses. Nice copy. PLANTS W132 rear x2
1916121p. Color pictorial title page. Illustrated with full page lovely color photographs. Numerous black and white photographs and drawings. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Hardbound. Probably from the McFarland Company Library. The first edition of "How to Grow Roses" was published as a pamphlet in 1910, shortly after Pyle and his father took control of Conard and Jones, a mail-order nursery and seed business. He was very active with McFarland in American Rose Society. Nice copy illustrating early twentieth century rose varieties. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! PLANTS W135
1972pp. viii, 325. Illustrated with numerous cartoons. Small 4to. Original full color pictorial cloth binding. Hardbound. Nice copy. PLANTS W133