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Rare flower art book which describes some exotics for the first and only time

L'HÉRITIER DE BRUTELLE, Charles-Louis. Sertum Anglicum, seu plantae rariores quae in hortis juxta Londinum, imprimis in horto regio Kewensi excoluntur, ab anno 1786 ad annum 1787 observatae.
Paris, Pierre-François Didot, 1788 [= after 1800]. 1mo (full-sheet leaves, ca. 34 x 53,5 cm). With 35 engraved botanical plates (8 folding), including 20 drawn by Pierre-Joseph Redouté and 10 by James Sowerby. Contemporary half red roan (sheepskin). Preserved in a professionaly handmade box, made for this book. [4], 20 pp. Full description
€ 18,000
Horticulture
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First western book on bonsai trees

LIEGELSTEINER, George. Wohlgezogener Zwerg-Baum oder Gründlicher Unterricht wie die Frantz-Bäume gewartet werden müssen, ...
Leipzig, Wolffgang Deer, 1747. 8vo. With woodcut frontispiece, 8 engraved figures on 1 folding plate, and about 30 woodcut figures in the text. Contemporary half tanned sheepskin, gold-tooled spine. [1 blank], [11], 143, [9] pp. Full description
€ 3,500
Arboriculture & Dendrology China Horticulture
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The most important early Dutch book on hunting

MERULA, Paulus. Placaten ende ordonnancien op 't stuck vande wildernissen.
The Hague, Beuckel Cornelisz. Nieulandt, 1605. 3 parts in 1 volume. Small folio (31 x 20 cm). With attractive engraved title-page (showing Diana, goddess of the hunt, a hunter and a falconer surrounding an elaborate cartouche together with hounds, birds of prey, and prey) and 2 double-page woodcut plates showing the castles of Teylingen and Warmond. Contemporary vellum. [24], 264; 124; 59, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 9,500
Arboriculture & Dendrology Birds - Ornithology Falconry, Fishing & Hunting Law & Politics
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Beautiful engraved views of Heemstede manor house and gardens

MOUCHERON, Isaac de. Plusieurs belles, et plaisante veües et la cour de Heemstede, dans la Province d'Utrecht. | Verscheyde schoone en vermaakelyke gezigten van Heemstede, gelegen in de Provintie van Utrecht.
[Amsterdam], Hendrik de Leth, [ca. 1731/40]. Small oblong folio (22 x 32.5 cm). With 26 numbered engraved prints, including the title-page. 20th-century half vellum, marbled paper sides. 26 engraved ll. Full description
€ 2,750
Arboriculture & Dendrology Castles, Gardens & Mansions City Plans, Topography & Views Horticulture Netherlands Prints & Print Series
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Beautiful engraved views of Heemstede castle and gardens

MOUCHERON, Isaac de. Plusieurs belles, et plaisante veües et la cour de Heemstede, dans la Province d'Utrecht. | Verscheyde schoone en vermaakelyke gezigten van Heemstede, gelegen in de Provintie van Utrecht.
[Amsterdam], Hendrik de Leth, [ca. 1731/40]. Oblong 4to. With 26 numbered engraved plates, including the title-page. Slightly later half cloth. 26 ll. Full description
€ 2,750
Arboriculture & Dendrology Castles, Gardens & Mansions City Plans, Topography & Views Horticulture Netherlands Prints & Print Series
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Practical manual for the cultivation of flowers and fruit trees, with frontispiece and 5 plates

OOSTEN, Hendrik van. De Neederlandsen hof, beplant met bloemen, ooft en orangerijen; ... Den tweeden druk.
With: (2) OOSTEN, Hendrik van. Register van alle de soorten der voornaamste vrugten, ... Dito een register van alle de saaden, behoorende tot de moestuinery. ...
Leiden, "voor den uitgeever" [= Hendrik van Oosten], sold by Johannes Du Vivié and Isaac Severinus, 1703. Small 8vo & large 16mo. With an engraved frontispiece after Jan Goeree by P. Sluyter, and 5 engraved plates. Contemporary vellum. [1 blank], [7], 286, [2 blank]; [2 blank], [6], 55, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 2,500
Arboriculture & Dendrology Horticulture
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Very rare last edition of a popular gardener’s handbook

OOSTEN, Hendrik van. De naauwkeurige bloemist, of de nieuwe Nederlandsche bloemhof, waarin onderrigt wordt, hoe men alle soorten van bloemen, planten en boomen moet aankweeken, onderhouden en vruchtbaar maken. Benevens eene beschrijving om de boomen goed en wel te snoeijen, ten einde dezelve goed vruchtbaar te houden, enz. enz.
Amsterdam, Wouter Brave, [1825]. 8vo (16.5 x 10.5 cm). With an engraved frontispiece and 5 engraved plates. Contemporary stiff paper wrappers. [12], 312 pp. Full description
€ 950
Fruit Culture
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Extremely rare work on the cultivation of roses in North Africa, printed in Tunisia

PILE, Alfred. Culture pratique du rosier dans l'Afrique du Nord. ... augmenté d'une notice: les ennemis du rosier par Théophile Pagliano.
Tunis, G. Finzi, [1926]. 8vo. With numerous illustrations in text, including botanical drawings and reproductions of photographs, some full-page, and 2 folding plates. Original publisher's printed paper wrappers, with advertisements printed on the paste-down. [4], 132 pp. Full description
€ 475
Agriculture Flowering Plants Horticulture North Africa & Egypt
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Extensive work on the pruning of fruit trees, with 11 engraved plates

QUINTINIE, Jean-Baptiste de la. Trattato del taglio de gl'alberi fruttiferi del fù monsu' della Quintinye'.
Bassano, Giovanni Antonio Remondini, 1697. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece, a woodcut mongram on title-page and 11 folding engraved plates. Contemporary vellum. [16], 228, [3], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 1,950
Agriculture Arboriculture & Dendrology Fruit Culture
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