Calendula
Horticultural Books
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Box 1043
Anacortes, WA 98221
Books on the Language of Flowers for
Sale:
[7856] Coggiatti,
Stelvio and Anne Marie Trechslin.
The Language of Roses. New York: Gallery Books,
1987. 1st American Edition. Folio - over 12" -
15" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good
/ Very Good. ISBN: 0-8317-7499-1. NY 1987. Folio.
141 pages with many illustrations by Anne Marie Trechslin. Cloth w.dj.
$12.95
[5571] Edgarton, S.C.. The Flower Vase; containing the Language of Flowers and Their
Poetic Sentiments. Lowell: Merrill and Heywood, 1847. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good Lowell 1847.
16mo. 157 pp, Missing the 1 handcoloured copper frontispiece. Rebound into brown cloth.
$39.95
[6852] Kreidolf, Ernst. Alpenblumenmärchen. Zürich: Rotapfel
Verlag, 1966. 2nd Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good 2. edition. Zürich 1966. Oblong 4to. 38 pages with 18 colour
plates. Boards. Flower fairy tales with Kreidolf’s animated floral drawings $39.95
[6851] Kreidolf, Ernst. Blumen-Märchen Blumenmärchen. Bern: Alfred Scherz, 1963. 4to - over 9¾"
- 12" tall. Hard Cover. Very
Good- Bern 1963. Oblong 4to. 34 pages with 15 colour plates. Boards. Flower
poetry with Kreidolf’s animated floral
drawings. $39.95
[4126] Phillips, Henry. Floral Emblems or Guide to the
Language of Flowers. London: Saunders and Otley,
1831. New Edition. 8vo - over
7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover.
Very Good New Edition. London 1831. 8vo.
Xvi, 352 pages with 20 handcoloured plates.
Cloth (spine professionally rebacked). One of the
earliest symbolism of flower books in English.
Phillips introduces the use of symbolism and the meaning of each plant, which
in the following decades became a very popular tradition. $475.95
[2535] Rambosson, J..
[SIGNED] Histoire et légendes
des plantes utiles et Curieuses. Paris: firmin didot freres, 1868. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" -
9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Signed by Author. Paris 1868. Lg 8vo. 371 pages with 120 woodcuts
in text. Half-cloth with marbled boards.
Corners bumped. Dedicated to Madame Colet by the author.
$99.95