51. Coats, Peter.

Great Gardens of Britain.

First Edition. London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1967. 24.5cm x 33cm. 286 pages with 40 plates in full colour and about 250 illustrations in black and white. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

52. Cassells, Judy (ed.).

A Guide to Garden Centres & Nurseries in Ireland 1990. Compiled and edited by Judy Cassells.

First Edition. Dublin, Irish Garden Plant Society, 1990. 14,5 x 22 cm. 76 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with minor signs of external wear.

53. Browning, Gareth H.

The Children’s Book Of Wild Flowers And The Story Of Their Names. Illustrated by M. C. Pollard.

London / Edinburgh, W. & R. Chambers, Ltd., 1929. 16 cm x 21 cm. Frontispiece, 250 pages, 50 illustrations. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Sunning to spine, chipped dustjacket, slightly shaken, otherwise in Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

54. Brickell, Christopher (editor-in-chief).

The Royal Horticultural Society Gardeners’ Encyclopedia of Plants and Flowers.

London, Dorling Kindersley, 1990. 23 cm x 29 cm. 608 pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

55. Bowles, E.A.

My Garden in Summer.

Facsimile of 1914 edition. Portland, Oregon, Timber Press, 1998. 15 cm x 21 cm. VIII, 331 pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Contains a few underlinings in pencil by preowner.

56. Bowles, E.A.

My Garden in Spring.

Facsimile of 1914 edition. Portland, Oregon, Timber Press, 1997. 14.5 cm x 21 cm. XX, 322 pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Contains a few notes and underlinings in pencil.

57. Bowles, E.A.

My Garden in Autumn and Winter.

Facsimile of 1915 edition. Portland, Oregon, Timber Press, 1998. 15 cm x 21 cm. VIII, 282 pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

58. Berthier, Francois.

Reading Zen in the Rocks – The Japanese Dry Landscape Garden. Translated and with a Philosophical Essay by Graham Parkes.

First published in 1989. Chicago, London, University of Chicago Press, 2000. 17.5 cm x 22.5 cm. XI, 166 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

59. Bentham, George.

Handbook of the British Flora. A description of the flowering plants and ferns indigenous to, or naturalized in the British Isles for the use of beginners and amateurs.

London, Lowell Reeve, 1896. 20 cm. LXXX, 600 pages. Original hardcover. Very good condition with minor signs of external wear, for example, some rubbing and fading of outer spine.

60. Beales, Peter.

Twentieth-Century Roses. An Illustrated encyclopaedia and grower’s manual of clasic roses from the twentieth century.

First Edition. London, Collins Harvill, 1988. 20cm x 27cm. 320 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. Signed by Peter Beales and additionally inscribed on the endpaper.

61. Beales, Peter.

A Passion for Roses. Special Photography by Marianne Majerus.

First Edition. London, Mitchell Beazley, 2004. 22.5cm x 29cm. 256 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excellent, as new condition with only minor signs of wear. Beautifully inscribed and signed by Peter Beales. (Mitchell Beazley Gardening).

62. Batey, Mavis / Palmer, Hugh (photographer).

The Historic Gardens of Oxford & Cambridge.

London, Macmillan, 1989. 20 cm x 24 cm. 192 pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

63. Banks, Elizabeth / Harpur, Jerry (photographer).

Creating Period Gardens.

Oxford, Phaidon, 1991. 24 cm x 27 cm. 240 pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

64. Arkell, Reginald.

Old Herbaceous.

New York, Harcourt Brace and Co., 1951. 13 cm x 20 cm. 150 pages. Original illustrated hardcover. Good condition with minor signs of external wear. Noticeable stain on front cover.

65. Anonymous.

The Margery Fish Plant Nursery Mail Order Catalogue.

South Petherton, East Lambrook Manor, 1996. 15 cm x 21 cm. 29 pages. Original softcover pamphlet. Excellent condition withminor signs of external wear. Rusty staples.

66. Anonymous.

Illustrated Guide. Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Illustrated Guide.

London, His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1951. 12 cm x 18,5 cm. V, 134 pages. Original Softcover. With many black-and-white illustrations throughout the book and a fold out map. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

67. Ancient Roman Gardens.

Farrar, Linda.

Stroud, Sutton Publishing, 1998. 18 cm x 25 cm. 237 pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

68. Strong, Roy.

The Renaissance Garden in England.

London, Thames and Hudson, 1988. 19 cm x 25 cm. 240 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

69. [Sackville-West, Vita], Brown, Jane.

Vita’s Other World: A Gardening Biography of V. Sackville-West.

London etc., Penguin Books, 1987. 19 cm x 24.5 cm. 240 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

70. Plumptre, George / Palmer, Hugh (photographer).

Garden Ornament: Five Hundred Years of History and Practice.

London, Thames and Hudson, 1989. 24 cm x 31 cm. 256 pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

71. O’Kane, Finola.

Landscape Design in Eighteenth-Century Ireland – Mixing Foreign Trees with the Natives.

Cork, Cork University Press, 2004. Quarto. XI, 211 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent, as new condition.

72. Merian, Maria Sibylla.

New Book of Flowers.

Munich / London / New York, Prestel Verlag, 1999. 19.5 cm x 32 cm. 100 pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Fine. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

73. Elliott, Brent.

The Country House Garden. From the Archives of Country Life 1897-1939.

First Edition. London, Mitchell Beazley, 1995. 27cm x 33cm. 192 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. No markings or entries of any kind.

74. Cheng, Ji / Hardie, Alison (translator) / Ming, Zhong (photographs).

The Craft of Gardens.

New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1988. 25.5 cm x 27.5 cm. 144 pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

75. Bumpus, Judith.

Impressionist Gardens.

Oxford, Phaidon, 1990. 25.5 cm x 30 cm. 80 pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

76. Veitch, James (Royal Exotic Nursery).

A Manual of the Coniferae – Containing a General Review of the Order; a Synopsis of the Hardy Kinds Cultivated in Great Britain; Their Place and Use in Horticulture, Etc., Etc. With numerous woodcuts and illustrations.

First Edition. London (Chelsea), James Veitch & Sons (Royal Exotic Nursery), 1881. Large Octavo. Frontispiece, 350 pages. Original, beautifully illustrated Hardcover. Excellent condition of the binding with with only minor signs of external wear. Binding a little shaky.