PBA Galleries - Auctioneers & Appraisers

Live Auctions

Items in Sale # 363 Rare Books, including the Botanical Library of J. Roy Barrette of Brooklin, Maine Date: 09/13/2007
Show all items on one page (slow)  

View Page: 1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9  
  Page 8 of 9 / Items 141-160 of 176
 
 
Section I: Rare Books, Lots 1-112
Section II: The Botanical Library of J. Roy Barrette of Brooklin, Maine, Lots 113-176

J. Roy Barrette of Brooklin, Maine, author of A Countryman’s Journal and other works describing his life on a coastal Maine farm, gathered over many years a wonderful collection of beautiful botanical works, reflecting his great love of nature.

  Lot # Heading Author Title Place Date Estimate
141   Loudon, Mrs. [Jane Webb]  The Ladies' Flower-Garden  London  [c. 1855-59]  12000/18000 
142   Maund, B[enjamin]  The Botanic Garden; Consisting of Highly Finished Figures of Hardy Ornamental Flowering Plants Cultivated in Great Britain...  London  1878  800/1200 
143   Mawe, Thomas  Every Man His Own Gardener. Being a new, and much more complete, Gardener's Kalendar, and General Director, than any one hitherto published...  London  1787  200/300 
144   Maw, George  A Monograph of the Genus Crocus  London  1886  4000/6000 
145   McDonald, Alexander  A Complete Dictionary of Practical Gardening  London  1807  4000/7000 
146   McIntosh, Charles  The Greenhouse, Hot House, and Stove  London  1840  300/500 
147   Meehan, Thomas  The Native Flowers and Ferns of the United States in their Botanical, Horticultural, and Popular Aspects  Boston / Philadelphia  1878-80  1000/1500 
148   Michaux, F[rancois] Andre & Thomas Nuttall  The North American Sylva; Or, A Description of the Forest Trees of the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia...  Philadelphia  1859  3000/5000 
149   Miller, Phillip  Figures of the Most Beautiful, Useful, and Uncommon Plants described in the Gardeners dictionary, exhibited on three hundred copper plates, accurately engraved after drawings taken from nature. With the characters of their flowers and seed-vessels, drawn when they were in their greatest perfection  London  1760  15000/25000 
150   Miller, Phillip  The Gardeners Dictionary: Containing the methods of cultivating and improving the kitchen, fruit, and flower-garden, as also the physic-garden, wilderness, conservatory, and vineyard ... Abridg'd from the two volumes lately published in folio...  London  1741  300/500 
151   Morris, Richard  Flora Conspicua: A Selection of the Most Ornamental Flowering, Hardy, Exotic and Indigenous Trees, Shrubs, and Herbaceous Plants, for embellishing Flower-Gardens and Pleasure-Grounds  London  1826  1500/2500 
152   Parkinson, John  Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris. Or a Garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers which our English ayre will permitt to be noursed up: with a Kitchin-Garden of all manner of herbes, rootes, & fruites, for meate or sauce used with us, and An Orchard of all sorte of fruit-bearing Trees and shrubbes fit for our Land together with the right ordering planting & preserving them and their uses & vertues...  London  1629  3000/5000 
153 zzc  Paul, William  The Rose Garden  London  [c. 1888]  500/800 
154 zzc  Paxton, Joseph  Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Flowering Plants  London  1834-1849  10000/15000 
155 zzc  Paxton, Joseph and John Lindley  Paxton's Flower Garden  London  1850-53  3000/5000 
156 zzc  Perrin, Mrs. Henry and Professor Boulger  British Flowering Plants  London  1914  300/500 
157 zzc  Phillips, Alfred A., editor  The Bouquet, For 1847  New York  1847  300/500 
158 zzc  Pratt, Anne  Flowering Plants of Great Britain  London  [c. 1885]  500/800 
159 zzc  Redouté, Pierre  La Botanique de J.J. Rousseau, Ornée de Soixante-Cing Plances, Imprimées en Coleurs d'apres les Peintures de P.J. Redouté  Paris  1805  4000/6000 
160 zzc(Redouté, Pierre Joseph)  Sitwell, Sacheverell and Roger Madol  Album de Redouté  London  1954  300/500 
  Page 8 of 9 / Items 141-160 of 176
 
View Page: 1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9