Search Results: Early works from Mike Park Ltd

Poultry & Lombard Street, London: Charles Dilly & James Phillips, 1787. Octavo, pp xx, 51, a little age-toning and discolouration, the title page more marked and with a small old paper repair to the upper corner, a near contemporary signature - "R. Prime" - to the title page, otherwise very sound internally. in a later twentieth century simple quarter calf binding, a little marked and faded, the boards slightly bowed. Of great interest is the seedsman's advertisement bound in at the front - Observations on the Culture of the Mangel Wurzel, by Jenkins and Gwyther, Nursery and Seedsmen, New Road and in the Regent's Park. Ths extends to two and a half small sides, folded and marked, with the remains of an address and a postmark on the final side. Lettsom's work is rare anyway, and I can find no trace of another copy of the Jenkins and Gwyther advertisement. [Abbe de Commerell had a great interest in husbandry and made a special study of vegetable and fodder crops. Seed of… Read More

Geneva: J.J. Paschoud, 1811. Two volumes bound in one, octavo, pp xxii, 361; 326,(i), the hinge at the first title page cracking but still firm and safe, lacking the lower corners of the the three index leaves and the corrigenda (slight loss of text), otherwise extremely clean and tight internally, original pink paper-covered boards, a contemporaru cloth spine which is splitting a little on the upper joint and rather dry. SCARCE. [From the library of C.E. Hubbard, the foremost grass taxonomist of the twentieth century, and with his signature and stamp on the front endpaper. Also with an earlier unidentified signature on the title page.]. First Edition. Quarter leather. Good.

Lugduni Batavorum: Westenium, 1769. Latin text throughout. Title page, dedication leaf, pp 506, (ii), with seven engraved folding plates and one folding table, (slight damage to the margin of the ornithological plate), a little age-toning generally, endpapers unevenly browned, but otherwise very clean internally, bound in full contemporary polished calf, slight wear at the corners, joints cracking slightly, lacking a small piece at the head of the spine. [The students whose names appear on the dissertations were not necessarily their authors; it was their function to present the dissertation and defend it in public debate, but the responsibility for the content of the dissertation was largely that of the professor, in this case Linnaeus. The fact that Linnaeus cited the Amoenitates as the place of publication for plant names he credited to himself indicates that he was generally the principal author of the work. At the end of this volume is a list of "Editiones operum auctoris", including… Read More

London: Joseph Smith, 193 High Holborn, 1828. Small 12mo, pp viii, 136, some foxing throughout, bound in a later half calf and marbled boards, rubbed. [LACKING the frontispiece, which appears never to have been bound in]. Extremely scarce.. Half-Leather. Good.

London: Darton, Harvey & Darton; Scratcherd and Letterman; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown; W. Walker; J. Harris; and Law & Whittaker, 1817. Seventh edition. An engraved frontispiece, 12mo, pp (ii), 269, age-toning and slight wear internally, contemporary tree calf very rubbed, worn at the edges, lacking small parts of the spine at head and tail, the covers nearly detached, but contents firm. SCARCE. . Full Leather. Fair.

London: Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, 1827. Second edition, with some account of the history of the science, and adapted to the use of students. Illustrated with a charming hand-coloured frontispiece, eight hand-coloured plates, small 12mo (measures 108mm x 173mm), extremely clean internally, contemporary boards with maroon calf spine, a little worn and scuffed and with a small piece missing from the calf. With the tiny book label of Piers Gascoigne of Bath. Very scarce, and an unusally attractive copy; the colouring is of a high standard. [Bingley was an English cleric and a prolific natural history writer. John Frost, the editor of this second edition, was a physician and botanist; he founded the short-lived Medico-Botanical Society of London in 1821. He was expelled from his own society nine years later for "unpopular, presumptuous conduct and displays of vanity". Several further ventures hit the rocks, and he eventually fled the country bankrupt, and later died penniless in Berlin.]. Second… Read More

Gottingen: Sumptibus Dieterichianis, 1827. Small quarto, pp 54, very age-toned, but otherwise good, illustrated with four attractive folding engraved plates, slightly foxed, contemporary black boards with red board spine, rather bumped, bruised and scuffed, but quite firm and tight. Inscribed, in Latin, "from the author, May1828", on the front endpaper. RARE. [Schrader was Professor of Botany at Gottingen University, and Director of the Botanical garden for over thirty years. A prolific writer, this was one of his last works.]. First Edition. Boards. Good.

London: James Cochrane & Co,, 1832. Octavo, a few text illustrations, several plates and engraved frontispiece, extra vignette title page, (all a little foxed), pp xv, (1), 446, the text pages quite clean, marbled edges, marbled endpapers , contemporary full calf, spine ornate gilt, some scuffing and rubbing with slight loss of surface on the rear cover, traces of an impression from writing on the upper cover. (The last 169 pages are devoted to Conifers - an early treatment of this group of plants. Despite the word 'Annual' in the title, this seems to be the only edition ever issued.).. First Edition. Full-Leather. Good.

St Paul's Churchyard, London: J. Johnson, 1791. Two volumes bound in one. {Volume 1 - Second edition, 1791. Volume 2 - Third edition, 1791. Blanche Henrey 470 ?}. Illustrated with two engraved allegorical frontispieces, 18 engraved plates (one of them folding and two hand-coloured), quarto, pp xii, 214, 126, (ii(; x, 197, both frontispieces and title pages browned and with some offsetting from plate to title, the plates of the Portland Vase and the Fertilisation of Egypt similar, (this last plate by Blake after Fuseli); the remaining botanical plates clean, lacking the corner of page 171/2, a releveant pencilled note at the base of one page, a few pages with foxing but otherwise very clean and sound internally, with the armorial bookplate of the Dowdeswell family, Pull Court Worcestershire on the front endpaper together with a shelf label and a small newspaper clipping; the hand-colouring on the two plates is particularly attractive, and there is also an extra engraved plate fixed to the verso of… Read More

London: James Cochrane & Co,, 1832. A few text illustrations, several plates and engraved frontispiece (all foxed), pp xv, (1), 446, a little foxing thoughout, all edges gilt, endpapers foxed, in the original publisher's binding - ornate full dark green embossed leather, spine slightly worn otherwise in good condition. (The last 169 pages are devoted to Conifers - an early treatment of this group of plants. Despite the word 'Annual' in the title, this seems to be the only edition ever issued.).. First Edition. Full-Leather. Good.

Stratfod-upon-Avon: J. Ward, 1817. [1817 - 1821]. Three volumes bound in four, small octavo, illustrated with 38 hand-coloured plates by James Sowerby, pp x, 795,(i); xiv, 575,(i), slightly weak internally, otherwise clean wide-margined and untrimmed, original boards with paper labels, very worn, spines cracked, marked, frayed and pieces lacking, one board detached, RARE, particularly with the appendix, which contains much mycological records. [Thomas Purton was a surgeon who practised in London and in Alcester. He is particularly remembered for his mycological collections. This work was praised by Sir James Smith for its accuracy, but a little damned by Sir Charles Hastings for "its interminable additions, corrections and appendices". It is, nevertheless, a work of great detail and charm.]. First Edition. Boards. Good. Illus. by James Sowerby.

London: James Ridgway, 1821. Octavo, pp (ii), 528, slight age-toning but otherwise surprisingly clean internally, bound in a recent brown quarter calf and cloth, very slightly rubbed. Later editions of the book were published under the title 'A Hothouse and Greenhouse Manual, Or Botanical Cultivator', but this first edition is very scarce. [Sweet was a prominent botanist and gardener of his day. He published both expensive colour plate works and also practical manuals such as this. This is one of the earliest books to contain so much specific information on propagation.]. First Edition. Quarter calf and cloth. Very Good.

Stratfod-upon-Avon: J. Ward, 1817. Two volumes bound in one, small thick octavo, illustrated with eight hand-coloured plates by James Sowerby, pp x, 795,(i), endpapers marked, otherwise very clean internally, there is a cracking and weakness at pages 328/9 which could lead to a gathering coming loose, bound in a simple Victorian pebble cloth, slightly worn, with a slight tear to the spine head. RARE. [An appendix was published four years later. Thomas Purton was a surgeon who practised in London and in Alcester. He is particulalrly remembered for his mycological collections. This work was praised by Sir James Smith for its accuracy, but a little damned by Sir Charles Hastings for "its interminable additions, corrections and appendices". It is, nevertheless, a work of great detail and charm.]. First Edition. Cloth. Good. Illus. by James Sowerby.

Paternoster Row, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1816. Two volumes. Illustrated with a folding plan in the first volume, 12mo, (measures 180mm x 108mm], the first volume is partly unpaginated, the second volume is (4), 211, (i), slight age-toning and the occasional blemish, the frontispiece is awkwardly folded and along with the title page a bit browned, but otherwise clean and sound internally, half calf and boards, rubbed, lacking most of the spine labels, with the tiny armorial bookplate of William Booth Grey - the son of George Harry Grey (1737, MP for Staffordshire in 1761 and succeeded as the 5th Earl of Stamford 30 May 1768). He is considered to be the artist of two plant collages, in the style of Mary Delany, acquired by the British Museum in 2008. RARE. [William Salisbury, botanical nurseryman, has been erroneously described as a brother of Richard Anthony Salisbury. In the preface he states that from 1791 he was employed by the Board of Agriculture in conducting… Read More

Manchester: R. & W. Dean, 1799. First edition. Two parts in one volume, octavo, pp viii, 1-227, (i), second title page, 229-449, (i), slight age-toning and the very odd fox-mark, but really very clean internally, contemporary tree calf, slightly worn at the corners, re-backed with a new calf spine, the original label preserved. A rare work, and especially so with its second title page preserved; this was frequently discarded because of the continuous pagination. {Soulsby - add. 772. Blanche Henry 861 - "Hull took up botany as a relaxation from medical duties". She also comments that of the other edition, the second of 1808, only the first part exists.}. [John Hull, M.D., was born at Poulton in Lancashire in 1764, and received his medical education at Leyden, where he graduated doctor of medicine 18th May, 1792. He settled at Manchester, and devoted himself especially to the practice of midwifery, and held the appointment of physician to the Lying-in Hospital there. He was admitted an… Read More

Bath, London & Edinburgh: S. Hazard; Cadell & Davies; Creech, 1799. Two volumes, not illustrated, octavo, pp xxxii, 768, [25], edges untrimmed, some foxing throughout though irregular (many pages completely clean), otherwise very bright and unmarked, with the contemporary signature of Theresa Turner on both title pages, a badly cracked hinge in the introductory pages to the first volume though without causing any obvious weakness, original blue boards slightly marked and worn, rebacked with original paper spines and labels re-laid, now a little worn and marked and with only a few pieces missing. A remarkable copy, largely in its original state. Blanche Henrey 1157. [The work is extremely rare, seldom even appearing at auction. The first edition was published anonymously, this second edition was published in the same year. Lady Murray may have been influenced in her botanical interests by her father and brother, both of them Dukes of Atholl who planted extensively at Dunkeld and Blair.].… Read More

Edinburgh: A. Kincaid & J. Bell; R. Fleming, 1764. Octavo, pp (iv), 443, (7), some age-toning throughout, a little soiling here and there, pages 331-362 stained in the lower margin, otherwise firm and tight internally with no tears, contemporary calf, rubbed and a little worn and creased, neatly rebacked with a new spine, raised bands and green title label, new endpapers. Blanche Henrey 883, mentioning that not all copies of this edition have the two plates, and ours does not. In effect the third edition, though the preceeding two have the title "The Scots Gardiners Director". [Sir James Justice (1698 - 1763) was a Scottish horticulturalist/gardener. His works on gardening were distributed in much of Britain and Ireland. He reportedly had a passion for botanical experiments, which he pursued at the expense of his finances and family. Indeed the later miniaturist John Kay wrote that tulipomania was the cause of him parting with his estate at Crichton and the purchase of a smaller one.… Read More

Edinburgh: R. Fleming, 1759. Octavo, pp iv, 412, some age-toning throughout, the title page and the final page rather foxed, otherwise extremely firm and tight internally, with no tears, rebound in a very smart dark green quarter morocco and marbled boards. Blanche Henrey 878. [Sir James Justice (1698 - 1763) was a Scottish horticulturalist/gardener. His works on gardening were distributed in much of Britain and Ireland. He reportedly had a passion for botanical experiments, which he pursued at the expense of his finances and family. Indeed the later miniaturist John Kay wrote that tulipomania was the cause of him parting with his estate at Crichton and the purchase of a smaller one. His divorce and expulsion from the Fellowship in the Royal Society has been blamed on the expenses he put into greenhouses and soil mixtures. He is nevertheless a noted figure in Scottish gardening with a claim to be the father of it. The genus Justicia is named for him.]. First Edition. Quarter leather. Very Good.

Philadelphia, reprinted Glasgow: R. Urie, 1751. "Philadelphia printed, Glasgow reprinted". 12mo, pp x, 11-168, (3), a little age-toning, but overall very clean and tight, recently bound in an extremely attractive full speckled calf, spine with raised bands, the spine lettered Cicero, 1751. [The introductory three page advertisement was by Benjamin Franklin, and was originally published in his first edition of 1744.].. Full-Leather. Very Good.

At the Cross-Keys, over against St Dunstans Church: C. Bathurst & J. Newbery, 1767. Octavo, pp (2), 82; viii, 120; viii, 100, a little age-toning and occasional marking throughout, the last few pages lightly stained, bound in a fairly recent green half calf, the spine faded. RARE. [Consists of reprints of three rare early works :Gentian Hervet's translation of Xenophon's "Treatise of the Householde" (1534), and two works by Sir Anthony Fitzherbert : " Boke of Husbandry" (1534) and "Surveyinge" (1539).]. First Edition. Half-Leather. Very Good.