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[GARDENING]. Eleven Books on Gardening, Plants, and Flowers. [V.p, 1825-1935].

Estimate: $250 - $350
Starting Bid
$125

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Eleven Books on Gardening, Plants, and Flowers. [V.p, 1825-1935]. Including:

[KENT, Elizabeth]. Flora Domestica, or the Portable Flower-Garden... London: Taylor and Hessey, 1825. SECOND EDITION. 

BROWNE, D.J. The Sylva Americana; or a Description of the Forest Trees Indigenous to the United States... Boston: Wiliam Hyde & Co., 1832. FIRST EDITION. 

BESTON, Henry. Herbs and The Earth. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1935. FIRST EDITION.

RHIND, William. A History of the Vegetable Kingdom. London: Blackie & Son, 1868. REVISED EDITION. 

OSGOOD, Frances S. The Poetry of Flowers and Flowers of Poetry. New York: Riker, 1848.

ROHDE, Eleanour Sinclair. The Old-World Pleasaunce: An Anthology. New York: The Dial Press, 1929.

The Mystical Flora of St. Frances De Sales: or, the Christian Life Under the Emblem of Plants. Dublin: M.H. Gill & Son, 1877.

A Christmas Letter: Some Flower Books and Their Makers. Philadelphia: Moncure Biddle & Co., 1945.

...and more. Complete list upon request. All 8vo. Illustrated (color and black-and-white). Most original binding, some with later repairs; Rhind's Vegetable Kingdom and Flora Domestica rebound. VARIOUS EDITIONS. 

Condition

General rubbing and moderate soiling; ownership markings, foxing, and discoloration. Some with loose hinges. Good or better. 

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