1765 Gardeners Kalendar PLANTS Botany Illustrated Flowers Miller English GARDENS

1765 Gardeners Kalendar PLANTS Botany Illustrated Flowers Miller English GARDENS

“The Gardeners Kalendar” is a rare 18^th-century botanical treatise written to instruct gardeners on how to improve their gardens and plants. Written and published by Philip Miller, this book provides direction on every aspect of planting and growing plants – fruits, flowers, vegetables, bushes, etc. Miller instructs on which seasons to plant certain plants and shrubs, how to prepare the ground, greenhouse and nursery necessities, and much more. This 1765 edition includes several illustrations, full-page and folding – views of flowers, plants, fruits, and seeds.

Item number: #25725

Price: $499

MILLER, Philip

The gardeners kalendar : directing what works are necessary to be performed every month in the kitchen, fruit, and pleasure-gardens, as also in the conservatory and nursery

London: Printed for the author, by Rivington…1765.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • xv, [1], 50, 376, [22]
  • 5 folding plates of engravings, plus engraved frontispiece
• Provenance: Armorial bookplate – Eardiston
  • Likely Sir William Smith, 3rd Baronet of Eardiston (1823–1893). The bookplate includes elements of the coats of arms of both the Smith baronets of Eardiston, as well as that of his wife’s family (Sir William George Parker, 2nd Bt.). Motto: NEC PRECE NEC PRETIO
• Language: English
• Binding: Leather; tight and secure
• Size: ~8.25in X 5in (20.5cm x 13cm)

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