Calendula Horticultural Books
4719 Woodside Dr.
Anacortes, WA 98221
USA
Tel: (360) 299-4516
www.calendulabooks.com
heiko@calendulabooks.com
Illustrated Horticultural Books for Sale:
30302] Don Elick; Raymond Booth. Japonica Magnifica (Gardens/Environment). Sutton Publishing Ltd, 1992. 1st Edition. Folio. Hard Cover. As New / As New. ISBN: 0750901624. 144 pages with 64 magnificent colour plates. $209.95
[30305] Dykes, W. R.. Notes on Tulip Species. ill. E. Katherine Dykes.
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1930. 1st Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15"
tall. Hard Cover. Very Good / Good+. Edited and illustrated by E. Katherine
Dykes. Folio. 1st edition. London 1930. 108 pages of text plus 54 full page
colour plates. Cloth w.dj. Very good/good. $225.95
[30384] Hibberd, Shirley. New and Rare Beautiful-Leaved Plants. London:
Bell and Daldy, 1870. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hard
Cover. Very Good containing Illustrations and Descriptions of the Most
Ornamental-Foliaged Plants not hitherto Noticed in any Work on the Subject.
viii, 144 pages with 54 fine colored plates. A very few of the plates show very
minor spots of foxing; most plates all are clean and bright. Original green
cloth binding with gilt stamping. $329.95
[1571] Maund, Benjamin. The Botanic Garden: Consisting of Highly Finished
Representations of Hardy Ornamental Flowering Plants, Cultivated in Great
Britain. (17 Volumes - the Complete set). 1825. 1st Edition. 4to - over
9¾" - 12" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good Volumes 1-13 plus 4 additional
volumes (all published), 1825 - 1851. Each of the first 13 volumes has 24
hand-coloured engraved plates. Each plate is divided into quarters and depicts
4 beautifully illustrated flowers. The 312 hand-coloured engravi ngs were from
drawing by Mrs. E. Bury and Maund’s two daughters. Each flower is accompanied
by a 1-2 page commentary mentioning its history, origin, and botanical
peculiarities. Together with The Floral Register; Containing Figures and
Descriptions of Nearly All Tender and Hardy Plants, which have lately been
introduced to, and cultivated in Great Britain. Parts 1 & 2. 144, 240 pp.
And with The Auctarium of the Botanic Garden; Containing Miscellaneous
Information, Connected with the Cultivati on of a Garden, and Natural History.
Parts 1 & 2. 144; 280 pp. Altogether 17 volumes, nicely bound in uniform
new half morocco with raised bands and marbled boards. The skills of a
qualified British bookbinder and conservator were employed to recreate a
binding very similar to the original. The green morocco binding has raised
bands, attractive gilt stamping and marbled boards that are appropriate for the
period. 4to. Very clean. The complete set, which is very rare to find, esp in
such clean condition. There is no foxing in this set which makes it
exceptional! Fine. Nissen 2222. Stafleu 813. Very good. $6,450.00
[11084] Millais, J. G.. Rhododendrons in Which is Set Forth an Account of
All Species of the Genus Rhododendron (including azalea) and the Various
Hybrids First Series. London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1917. 1st Edition.
Folio. Hard Cover. Very Good- First series, Limited edition limited to 550
copies and numbered 356. Folio measuring 16 1/2" x 12 1/2", bound in
attractive morocco with gilt lettering on spine. With an arboretum library
stamp on front endsheet. 268 pages with splendid tissue guarded colour plates
by the Misses Parsons, Walker, Snelling and Brennand and also by Archibald
Thorburn. $595.95
[30327] Phillip Cribb. The Forgotten Orchids of Alexandre Brun. Grove
Pr, 1992. 1st Edition. Folio. Hard Cover. As New / As New. ISBN: 0802115004.
160 pages with exquisite reproductions of Alexandre Brun's water colour
paintings. $13.50
[10657] Pradhan, Udai and Sonam Lachungpa. Sikkim-Himalayan Rhododendrons. Kamlimpong:
Primulaceae Books, 1990. 1st Edition. Folio. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good.
ISBN: 8185423016. Kalimpong, India 1990. 8vo. 131 pages with 51 diagrams. Cloth
w.dj. Very good condition. Pp. (6), 80, (3), 49 full page plates (36 are
hand-colored). Publisher's original woven cloth in plaid pattern, dust jacket
with a hand-colored rhododendron on the front panel, also dust jacket protector
made fine Nepalese paper, folio (13 3/4 x 10 inches). This is the Collector's
Edition limited to 200 copies, printed on handmade Nepal paper, of which this
is copy No. 43. This paper has been made for ten centuries in Nepal and Tibet
from the bark of Daphne and Edgeworthia. Book is inside slipcase. $1,045.95