Catalogues

Woodburn Books

Specialities : Botany , Gardening , Illustrated books , Natural history , Old and rare books

Catalogue #27 (September 2019), “Wildflowers,” contains 80 items including two significant 19th century American color plate titles: William P.C. Barton’s FLORA OF NORTH AMERICA (Philadelphia 1821-23) with 106 hand-colored plates; and Asa Strong’s THE AMERICAN FLORA (NY 1855) bound in four elaborately gilt-tooled volumes, with 191 colored plates. In addition, a “Collection of Books on the Botany of the Caribbean, Central America, and Northern South America” is also offered. It contains 95 books on the flora of this region including Francisco Sauvalle’s scarce FLORA CUBANA (Havana 1873) as well as an inscribed copy of Blas Pablo Reko’s privately printed MITOBOTANICA ZAPOTECA (Tacubaya, Mexico 1945).
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Hinck & Wall Rare Books

Specialities : Architecture , Gardening , Photography

A varied selection of books and photographs from four booksellers from the United Kingdom.

Asher Rare Books (Since 1830)

Specialities : Botany , Natural history , Old and rare books , Gardening , Medicine

Woodburn Books

Specialities : Gardening , Botany , Illustrated books , Natural history , Old and rare books

Catalogue #26 (May 2018), "Fruits & Vegetables," contains 107 items including two 19th century American color plate titles: Alfred Hoffy's NORTH AMERICAN POMOLOGIST (Philadelphia, PA 1860) with 30 hand-colored lithographs of fruits; and Charles Hovey's FRUITS OF AMERICA, Vol.1, Vol.2, and Parts 1 & 2 from the scarce Vol.3, with 104 fine chromolithographed plates of fruits. Other highlights include: Court van der Voort's BYZONDERE AENMERKINGEN (Leiden 1737), with 15 engraved plates, and Nicolas Fatio de Duillier's FRUIT-WALLS IMPROVED (London 1699). Please contact us at info@woodburnbooks.com or phone us at (609) 466-0522 if you would like to receive a print version of this catalogue.

Asher Rare Books (Since 1830)

Specialities : Botany , Gardening , Old and rare books , Manuscripts

Antiquariaat Forum BV

Specialities : Asia , Travel , Americana , Botany , Gardening , Early printing , China , Middle East , Religion

Richard C. Ramer

Specialities : Agriculture , Gardening , Illustrated books , Economics , Law

67 items on wine, with full-color illustrations

Specialities : Manuscripts , Travel , Music , Prints and drawings , Topography , Military , Gardening

Books, manuscripts, calligraphy, documents, engravings

Aldini’s influence on Mary Shelley
Casanova & Bernis autograph letters, links through freemasonry & mistresses
Talleyrand, admired art collector & patron, Desnoyers engraving
The fashionable courts & spas of Europe as meeting places, Casanova, de Ligne
Music, poetry & art, the keys to impress socially
Joseph II’s enlightened reforms
Satire, explicit & implied, in Perdoux’s wallpaper & Voltaire’s calligraphic prayer
Exploration & the search for origins, Maupertius in Lapland, Hackert records Horace’s villa
Architectures of the world brought to the 18th century landscape garden, William Wrighte’s fabriques

Woodburn Books

Specialities : Botany , Gardening , Illustrated books , Natural history , Old and rare books

Holiday List #1218 (December 2018) contains a descriptive listing of 33 horticulture and gardening books. Highlights include: D. M. Dewey's "tree-peddler's" catalogue titled DEWEY'S POCKET SERIES, Rochester, NY 1872; Green's TREATISE ON THE CULTIVATION OF ORNAMENTAL FLOWERS, Boston 1828; Hoffy's NORTH AMERICAN POMOLOGIST, Philadelphia, PA 1860; and Thornton's NEW FAMILY HERBAL, London 1810. Please contact us at info@woodburnbooks.com or phone us at (609) 466-0522 if you would like to receive a print version of this catalogue.

Specialities : Manuscripts , Prints and drawings , Autographs , Atlases and maps , Gardening , Travel

Selected books, manuscripts, prints, maps, drawings & autograph letters