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of Flower Books for Sale:
[3792] Edgarton, Miss S. C.. The Flower-Vase. Lowell and Boston: Merrill and Straw, 1853. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Hard Cover. Very Good containing the Language of Flowers and their Poetic Sentiments. Boston 1853. 12mo. 157 pages. Red cloth with gilt stamping.
$65.95
[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.
$45.95
[3614] Hale. Flora’s Interpreter and Fortuna Flora. Boston: Samuel F. Nichols, 3rd Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Cloth. Very Good 3rd revised edition. Boston circa 1870. Sm 8vo. 288 pages with coloured frontispiece. Cloth. Very good.
$65.95
[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
$45.95
[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.
$45.95
[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 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.
$519.95
[2535] Rambosson, J.. [SIGNED] Histoire et légendes des plantes utiles et Curieuses. Paris: firmin didot freres, 1868. 1st Edition. 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.
$139.95