Botany from Brillig Books

New York/Rutland/Tokyo: Japan Publications Trading Company, 1965. Book. As New. Cloth. Second Edition. Second Edition. Quarto (12' X 8.25"), dark brown burlap covered boards over white cloth spine with titles and spine titles in red, white and brown. 282pp. including index, bibliography, glossary and appendix. Very generously illustrated throughout with 200 black and white gravure photographic illustrations and many line… Read more about this item

London: Horace Cox, 1908. Book. Fine. Cloth. First Edition. First Printinig. Royal octavo. Olive green cloth covered beveled boards with gilt title and cover decoration and gilt spine ditles. 228 pp. plus index and "exhaustive" bibliography. Very generously illustrated throughout with black and white drawings, woodblocks and historicall reproductions. A very uncommon history of pre-Industrial Revolution farmiing in England authored… Read more about this item

Shrewsbury, England: Swan Hill Press, 1997. Book. As New. Cloth. First Edition. Octavo, gteen cloth covered boards. 142 pp. including appendices. Illustrated with maps and full color photographs of deer species and resistant plants. A full range of approaches to deterring damage to domestic gardens and plants from deer damage including natural deterrents and naturally deer resistant plants. A very… Read more about this item

Wimborne, UK: Quarterjack Publishing, 1990. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, glossy coated paper covered boards. 512 pp. A complete guide to naming and classification of garden perrenials. A tight, bright, glossy, clean, crisp, unmarked and apparently unread volume in a crisp, very tight, bright, unclipped dust jacket. Prior owner name at top edge of free front endpaper, else fine.… Read more about this item

New York: Viking Press, 1985. Book. As New. Cloth. First Edition. Quarto, green cloth covered boards. 240 pp. including index, bibliography and notes. A pictorial biography of English poet Victoria Sackville-West (Vita) through the lens of the famous gardens that were the trademark of her domestic life with husband Harold Nicholson. Beautifully illustrated throughout with black and white and full… Read more about this item

New York: Abbeville Press, 1993. Book. As New. Cloth. First Edition. Small quarto, dark green cloth covered boards with gilt spine titles. 192 pp. including index, temperature range maps and a 24 page Chart of Plants by Sensuous Qualities. Gorgeously and evaocatively photographed by Jerry Pavia in stunning full color phtoographs on every page with many full and double page… Read more about this item

New York: Stewart Tabori & Chang, 1991. Book. As New. Cloth. First Edition. Quarto, dark green cloth covered boards with blindstamp title on front panel and silver gilt spine titles. 255 pp.including index and chronology. Very generously illustrated throughoiut with beautiful full color (many full page) photographs by Garbrielle van Zuylen A lovely survey and analysis of the works of… Read more about this item

New York: Stewart Tabori & Chang, 1985. Book. As New. Cloth. First Edition. First printing. Quarto, blindstamped forest green cloth covered boards with spine titles. 231 pp. Errata slip laid in. Very generously illustrated throughout with stunning full color, mostly full page edge to edge photographs of floral arrangements and settings, organized on aesthetic themes . The authors are the… Read more about this item

Pittsburgh, PA: Hunt Botanical Library, 1968. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, color illustrated white coated paper boards. 267 pp. including index of artists represented and international geographical distribution of the artists. Generously illustrated with black and white reproductions and photographs of the artists. A snapshot of the leading modern artists in the recondite but high art field of botanical… Read more about this item

Book. Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. Small folio, black cloth covered boards. 13 pp. of text including list of plates and brief introduction, followed by 100 full page black and white radiographs (x-ray photographs) of flowers from the garden, trees and shrubs. A fascinating visual display of the morphology of floral specimens, and a genuinely unique exercise in botanical photography.… Read more about this item

Florence: Princeton Architectural Press, 1985. Book. Fine. Cloth. First Edition. Folio, white cloth covered boards. 195pp. Rainero takes you on a fabulous photographic journey through historic gardens, ponds, landscapes, mosaics, collonades and statuary accompanied with poetry and brief comments revealing the allegorical and fantasy backgrounds to many famous gardens (including several Medici estates). A beautiful and evocative book of stunning… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Macmillan Pub Co, 1992. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Small quarto, pale turquoise cloth spine over grey paper covered boards. 323pp. including index, bibliography and extensive appendices. Illustrated with color photographs, black and white diagrams, charts and maps. A very tight, clean, fresh, unmarked volume in a crisp, sharp, dust jacket. Fine in fine dust… Read more about this item

Portland, Oregon: Timber Press/Garden Club Of America Book. As New. Cloth. Revised Edition. Two volumes in quarto, cream linen covered boards with gilt cover decoration and gilt spine titles. Volume I unpaginated (approx. 350 pp.) Volume II, 363pp. Each with extensive appendices and indexes. Very generously illustrated throughout with brilliant full color photographs of each of the varieties of tree… Read more about this item

Tokyo: Nippon Bunka Chuo Renmei, 1940. Book. Fine. Illustrated Wraps in Chemise. First Edition. First Edition. 10 volumes in decoratively illustrated chemise with ties and ivory fasteners. The correspondence course is in four parts which are monotone, pink, lavender, green and orange illustrated wrappers . The "Pamphlets" are in brilliantly multicolored illustrated wrappers of delicate hand made paper, each with… Read more about this item

Pittsburgh, PA: Hunt Botanical Institute, 1970. Book. Illus. by Lotte Gunthart. Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). First Edition. Large octavo, white coated paper covered boards with silver titles and spine titles. Very generously illustrated throughout with full color (many full page) and black and white reproductions of the works of this noted illustrator. A special tribute to the famous Swiss… Read more about this item

New York: Thames and Hudson, 1979. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Quarto, sand colored cloth covered boards with gilt spine titles. 191pp. including index and bibliography. Very generously illustrated throughout with 64 color plates and over 80 black and white woodcuts and engravings. A very beautiful study of the history of this important genre of book illustration with sumptuous color… Read more about this item