Calendula
Horticultural Books
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Box 1043
Anacortes, WA 98221
Books on Herbs and Herbals for Sale:
[2475] Adams, James.
Landscaping with Herbs. Portland, OR: Timber
Press, 1987. 1st Edition. 4to - over
9¾" - 12" tall. Hard Cover. New / Very Good. ISBN: 0-88192-073-8. Portland 1987. 4to. 223 pages with many diagrams and colour
photos. Cloth w.dj. Fine.
(Weight 3 lbs or 1.5 kg) $25.95
[3126] Anderson, Frederick O.. How
to Grow Herbs for Gourmet Cooking. New York: Meredith Press, 1967. 1st edition. 8vo - over 7¾" -
9¾" tall. Cloth. Very Good
Including 100 Recipes from 25 countries. NY 1967. 8vo. 280
pages. Cloth. $12.95
[5880] Besler, Basilius. Hortus Eystettensis. Der Garten von Eichstätt.
Das Pflanzenbuch von Basilius Besler - The Book of Plants By Basilius Besler. Köln:
Taschen, 2000. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.
Hard Cover. As New / As New.
ISBN: 3888142857. 1999. Folio. 465 pages with 367 colour
plates. Cloth with dust jacket Wonderful reprint of this decoratively
illustrated 1613 German herbal Very good. $89.95
[3603] Blunt, Wilfred and Sandra Raphael. The Illustrated
Herbal. New York: Thames and Hudson Inc., 197. 1st
Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
Cloth. Very Good / Very Good.
ISBN: 0-500-01226-1. NY 1979. 4to. 191 pages with hundreds of
reproductions from herbals throughout the centuries. Cloth
w.d. Verygood/vry good. (Weight 3 pounds) $24.95
[7976] Bridson, Diane and Leonard Forman.
The Herbarium Handbook. London: Royal Botanic
Gardens, 1992. 2nd Edition. 8vo -
over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft
Cover. Very Good ISBN: 0947643451. 2nd ed. London
1992. 8vo. 303 pages with 63 diagrams. Paperback. X Lib. Except for one blindstamp and bookplate no other markings. $33.95
[2205] Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Handbook on
Herbs. 30, 5th printing. NY 1973. 93 pages with many photos. Staple-bound.
Very good. $4.95
[3123] Carte, Annie Burnham. In An Herb Garden. New
Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1947. 1st Edition.
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Calf. New Brunswick 1947. Sm 8vo. 209 pages. Green cloth. $12.95
[2948] Clair, Colin. of Herbs &
Spices. London NY Toronto: Abelard-Schuman, 1961. 1st
Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾"
tall. Cloth. Very Good
London, NY 1961. 8vo. 276 pages with 21 line-drawings.
Cloth. The history and uses of herbs
and spices. Very good. $18.95
[4734] Clarke, Ethne. Herb Garden Design. New York: MacMillan, 1995. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾" -
12" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good ISBN:
0-02-860358-3. NY 1995. 4to. 144 pages with many colour photos and garden plans. Cloth
w.dj. Very good condition. $14.95
[3138] Fox, Helen Morgenthau. Gardening with Herbs for
Flavor and Fragrance. ill. Louise
Mansfield. New York: Dover Publications, 1970. Sm 8vo. Paperback. Very Good Gardening with Herbs for Flavor and Fragrance. Dover reprint of the 1933 edition. NY 1970. 8vo. xiv, 334 pages with 12 line-drawings. Paperback. $4.90
[3351] Freeman, Margaret B.. Herbs
for the Mediaeval Household for Cooking, Healing and Divers Uses. New
York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1971. Reprinted edition.
sm 4to. Hard
Cover. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN:
0-87099-067-5. NY 1971 (copyright 1943). 8vo. xiii, 48 pages with many reproductions of old herbal woodcuts.
Cloth w.dj. (Weight 1.5 pounds or 750 gr) $7.95
[3142] Hayes, Elizabeth S.. Spices
and Herbs. ill. Yeatts.
New York: Dover, 1980. 8vo - over 7¾" -
9¾" tall. Paperback. Very Good
ISBN: 0-486-24026-6. Lore and Cookery. NY 1961. 266 pages. Paperback. Very good. (Weight 1 lb or 450 gr)
$2.95
[3132] Meyer, Clarence. The Herbalist
Almanac. Glenwood, IL: Meyerbooks, 1988. 3rd printing. 8vo - over 7¾" -
9¾" tall. Paperback. Very good
ISBN: 0-916638-02-2. Meyer, Clarence The Herbalist
Almanac. A 50-Year Anthology. 3rd
printing. 1988. 8vo. 256 pages. Paperback.
$10.95
[3130] Miller, Richard Alan. [SIGNED] The Potential of
Herbs as a Cash Crop. ill. Connie Nygard. Kansas City: Acres USA, 1985. 1st
Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾"
tall. Paperback. Signed by
Author. Very Good ISBN: 0-911311-10-6. Miller, Richard Alan The Potential of Herbs as a Cash Crop. 1st
edition. Kansas City 1985. 230 pages with some
diagrams. Paperback. Signed
by the author. $15.95
[2391] Parkinson, John. Paradisi in Sole - Paradisus Terrestris.
London: Methuen & Co., 1904. 4to - over
9¾" - 12" tall. Hard Cover.
Very Good or a Garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers which our English ayre will permitt to be nursed,
with a kitchen garden of all manner of herbs rootes
and fruits for meate or sause..
and an orchard of all sorte
of fruitbearing trees and shrubbes
fir for our land... Faithful reprint of the Edition of 1629. London 1904. 612,
16 pages with over 100 full page woodcuts of plants. Folio.
Handsomely rebound in half calf with marbled boards. Very
good. A speaking garden, a tranquil spacious
Elizabethan garden full of loveliness and colour and
sweet scents. $679.95
[3344] Sanecki, Kay N.. Book of Herbs. New York, NY, U.S.A.: Book Sales,
Incorporated, 1987. Reprinted Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Cloth. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN:
0-89009-855-7. 128 pages with very many colour
photos. Cloth w.dj. Descriptions,
use, history and cultivation. (Weight 2 pounds or 1 kg) $15.95
[3162] Simmons, Adelma Grenier.
Herb Gardens of Delight. ill.
Kathleen Bourke. New York: Hawthorn Books, 1974. 1st Edition.
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth. Very Good / Good. With plants for every Mood and Purpose. Eight plot plans for
fragrance, culinary, and decorative gray-and-silver herb gardens a Shakespeare
garden two saints gardens medicinal herb and dye gardens plus inventories of
herbs for these special gardens. NY 1974. 8vo. 190 pages.
Cloth w.dj. BCE. $14.95
[3345] Stuart, Malcolm. The Encyclopedia of
Herbs and Herbalism. New York: Crescent Books, 1987. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Cloth. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN:
0-517-35326-1. NY 1987. 4to. 304 pages with hundreds of colour illustrations. Cloth w.dj.
(Weight 3.5 pounds or 1.75 kg) $8.95
[4765] The Tooles. Herb Magic and Wisconsin Ferns and Wild Flowers. Herb plants and seeds, herb products, native ferns and wild
Flowers. Baraboo, WI: 1946. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Very Good Baraboo, WI 1946.
26 pp. Very good. $10.95
[2402] Thornton, Robert John. A Family Herbal: or Familiar
Account of the Medical Properties of British and Foreign Plants, also their
uses in dying, and the various arts arranged according to the Linnaean System. London:
Crosby, 1814. 2nd Edition. 8vo -
over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard
Cover. Very Good 2nd edition. London 1814. 8vo. 901 pages with 258 woodcuts in text engraved by Thomas Bewick. Quarter-calf (attractive
new spine) with gilt stamping and marbled boards. Exceptionally clean. Very good. $375.95