Search Results: Authors starting with P from Mike Park Ltd

Massachusetts: Harvard University, 1980. Well illus with botanical line drawings, quarto, pp x, 480, paperback, very slightly worn and marked, with slight creases.. Paperback. Good. Illus. by Fawcett, Priscilla.

London: Trafalgar Square Publishing, 1997. Well illustrated, quarto, pp 160, a very good copy in dustwrapper.. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good.

West Byfleet: teNeues, 2002. Well illustrated, small thick octavo, pp 400, very clean internally, upper cover creased, lower cover very slightly creased. [Ever since the birth of architecture the domestic garden has played a key role in defining a home. The large, ostentatious gardens of the nobility, now converted into urban parks, were echoed on a smaller scale by attempts to reproduce a piece of nature and incorporate it into a structured living environment. A series of innovative interpretations of the domestic landscape has led to an enormous range of patios, terraces and gardens, all of which are illustrated here in hundreds of photographs (with floor plans included) that enable the reader to investigate the present-day function and form of these spaces all over the world. With contributions from renowned architects and landscape gardeners, this book serves as a useful introduction to the ideas that have inspired the design of the modern garden and to the forms and materials that have made it… Read More

Paris: J - B. Bailliere et Fils, 1926. Cinquieme edition. Illustrated, small octavo, pp 464, age-toned, bound in library quarter leather, spine faded, the original paper covers and advertisements are bound in at the end; a duplicate from East Malling Research Station with their stamps on the front endpaper and a label on the spine.. Fifth edition. Quarter leather. Good.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1912. Illustrated, small thick octavo, pp xxii, slight age-toning but otherwise very clean internally, original decorated cloth just vey slightly worn. A duplicate from East malling Research Station, with a shelf number on the spine and their neat stamps on the front endpaper but no other markings. The early editions are very scarce.. Cloth. Very Good.

London: Seeley and Co. Limited, 1890. Illustrated with 17 engraved plates and a mounted engraved frontispiece, large octavo, pp xvi, 318, top edge gilt, the other edges untrimmed, a neat owner's name opposite the half-title, a folding map in good condition at the rear, publisher's quarter morocco and cloth; sadly, the binding is not in good condition - the upper cover is very faded and marked and the spine is worn and lacking a few small pieces, the edges of the front endpapers and the half title are slightly stained, this has spread to the frontispiece though the actual image is barely affected (see illustration). {Large paper edition of 250 copies, of which this is number 183.}. First Edition. Quarter leather. Fair.

London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1978. First edition. Octavo, pp 224, exceptionall clean internally, violet cloth in very goiod condition, the dustwrapper is not price-clipped and has only the very slightest signs of use.. First British edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good.

Bruxelles: Institut National pour l'Etude Agronomique du Congo, 1962. Quarto, two large folding maps, with 48 page booklet of text, in very good condition. In original folder which is a little worn and marked. SCARCE.. Paperback in folder. Very Good/Good.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1977. Line illustrations throughout (mainly reproduced from early herbals), pp 315, a good copy in a very slightly worn dustwrapper. VERY SCARCE. [Alan Davidson's copy, with his "fishy" bookplate. One of the most important figures in twentieth century culinary writing and scholarship, Davidson was a British diplomat and historian best known for his writing and editing on food and gastronomy. He was the author of the 900-page, encyclopedic The Oxford Companion to Food. In 1948, Davidson joined the Foreign Office and served in diplomatic posts in Washington, Tunis, Brussels, Cairo, the Hague; from 1973 to 1975, he was ambassador to Laos. While living in Tunis, his wife asked him to look for a cookbook on fish because she did not recognize any of the local varieties. Not being able to find one he wrote one himself. The original manuscript was copied with a stencil machine. A copy reached the British cooking guru Elizabeth David, who passed it on to Penguin… Read More

Minresi (Cameroon): Ministry of Scientific Research and Innovation, 2016. Illustrated with eight botanical line drawings, large slim octavo, pp 62, paperback, a very good new copy. [A very limited edition, only a very few copies have been printed. This volume, in English, is the latest in the Flore Du Cameroun series documenting and identifying the wild plant species of Cameroon, now believed to exceed the 7850 documented in 2011 by Jean Michel Onana in the Vascular Plants of Cameroon.] . Paperback. New.

Madrid: Real Jardin Botanico, 1998. Illus, pp vi, 346, owner's neat name on title page and on bottom edge, otherwise an extremely good copy, paperback. SCARCE.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good.

Cape Town: C. Struik, 1981. Second impression. Well illustrated, thick octavo, pp 959, hardback, pictorial cloth, upper corners slightly bruised, otherwise a very good copy.. Pictorial Cloth. Very Good.

Petropoli (Petrorad. Leningrad. Saint Petersburg.): Acta Horti Petropolitani, 1899. Pars I - III, complete. [Latin text, with Russian introduction]. Illustrated with 4 plates, large octavo, pp 127, (i); 52; 69, a little age-toning and marking but essentially a remarkably clean copy, smartly bound in blue cloth. RARE. With the bookplate of Kenneth Lazenby, a founding member of the Alpine Garden Society. [The title page gives the author's initial as J, and this is repeated in most references. Stafleu gives Ivan Vladimirovitch, and it would seem that this is correct.]. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good.

Venezia: Procuratie Nuove, 1946. Small thick 12mo, pp 227 (+ advertisements), [Not illustrated], some pencil notes and lining, a little age-toning, paperback, very slightly worn.. Paperback. Very Good.

London: Hollis and Carter, 1977. Illustrated, octavo, pp 187, a very good copy indeed, virtually as new apart from a slight fade to the spine of the dustwrapper, which is now protected in a removable sleeve.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good.

London & Johannesburg: Collins, 1977. First edition. Illustrated with colour plates and small line drawings in the text, small octavo, pp 352, slightly used internally, a tiny name on the front endpaper, pictorial cloth, dull and very age-toned.. First Edition. Cloth. Fair.

Cape Town: A.A. Balkema, 1972. Three volumes. Very well illustrated with black and white photograps and line drawings throughout, 24 colour plates, large thick quarto, pp xvi, 2235, top edge slightly age-toned, a very very slight suggestion of waving to the page margins top and bottom at start of each volume, otherwise very clean and bright internally, red cloth in very good condition, the dustwrappers are slightly worn and chipped, very browned on their spines, and that of the second volume is more stretched with tears at the top joint and at the lower fold-over. A stunning work of great depth. [Extremely heavy, weighing over 8 kilos when packed. Extra postage will be necessary.]. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/A little worn and stretched.

Amsterdam & Cape Town: A.A. Balkema, 1961. Illustrated with 31 colour plates, 148 black and white photographs, and line drawings in the text, quarto, pp 352, very clean internally, green cloth with just very slight sign of use. A heavy book - extra postage may be required. [Very detailed].. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good.

Belgrade, 1874. [Serbian text throughout, with Latin plant names]. Small thick octavo, pp xxxiv, (ii), 798, (6), age-toned but otherwise extremely clean and firm, solidly bound in green cloth, with the original front paper cover restored and bound in. RARE.Pancic was a Croatian botanist and physician, eventually becoming Director of the Belgrade Botanic Garden. [ With a fine botanical provenance - the blindstamp of A.J. Wilmott, Kew botanist and ping-pong champion; from whom it went to Arthur Hugh Garfit Alston of the British Museum with his bequest label on the front endpaper; and finally back to Kew again to bear the signature of Alan Radcliffe-Smith.]. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good.

New Delhi: Indian Council of Agricultural research, 1990. Illustrated with black and white photographs (poor quality), small slim 8vo, pp viii, 115, paperback, very slightly worn. [History, botany, breeding, soil, varieties, establishment and management of a vineyard, yield, problems, diseases, harvesting, storage and marketing.]. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good.