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1 ALLAN, Mea Plants That Changed Our Gardens.
Newton Abbot David and Charles 1974 
208 pages plus 27 plates. Fine copy in the fine dustwrapper (a trifle rubbed). The story of seven of the greatest plant hunters. 
Price: 10.00 AUD
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2 BARRACLOUGH, Daphne A Flower-Lover's Miscellany. An authoritative collection of factual information together with an account of historical and legendary associations.
London Warne 1961 
160 pages with illustrations plus colour plates by Esme Eve. Fine copy (the top edge lightly foxed) in the slightly rubbed and price-clipped dustwrapper; a presentable copy. 
Price: 8.00 AUD
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3 BLIGH, Beatrice Cherish The Earth: The Story of Gardening in Australia.
Dee Why West Ure Smith 1975 reprint 
132 pages plus plates (several in colour). Fine copy in the slightly rubbed and torn (a trifle) dustwrapper; an excellent copy. 
Price: 12.00 AUD
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4 BORJA, Erik Zen Gardens.
London Ward Lock 1999 
Quarto, 168 pages with illustrations and colour plates. Fine copy in the very slightly rubbed dustwrapper with a very small puncture to the rear front edge; an excellent copy. 
Price: 24.00 AUD
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5 BRIGHT, Henry A. A Year in a Victorian Garden.
London Pyramid Books 1989 
Quarto, 128 pages with colour illustrations by Christine Hart-Davies. Fine copy in the fine dustwrapper (very slightly rubbed). Captures the atmosphere of an English Victorian garden with beautiful watercolour illustrations. 
Price: 9.00 AUD
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6 BUCHAN, Ursula and Nigel COLBORN The Classic Horticulturist.
Sydney Collins 1988 
Quarto, 160 pages with over 80 plates (70 in colour). Fine copy in the fine dustwrapper (the spine faintly sunned). A celebration of the achievements of the pioneering explorer-botanists and the plants they brought home. The book features full-colour illustrations of some of these favourite plants. 
Price: 11.00 AUD
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7 CARTER, Tom The Victorian Garden.
London Bracken Books 1988 
Quarto, 192 pages with illustrations plus colour plates. Fine copy in the very slightly rubbed dustwrapper; an excellent copy. 
Price: 11.00 AUD
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8 COATS, Alice M. The Treasury of Flowers.
London Phaidon 1975 
121 pages with 119 plates (33 in colour). Paperback with the attached dustwrapper; edges a little foxed; slight rubbing; a presentable copy. Brings to light some of the small-sized flower illustrations from the late 15th to the mid-19th centuries. 
Price: 4.00 AUD
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9 CUFFLEY, Peter Cottage Gardens in Australia.
Canterbury Five Mile Press 1986/ 1984 (revised edition) 
Quarto, 248 pages with numerous illustrations and colour plates. Fine copy in the rubbed (slightly) and sunned (the spine slightly) dustwrapper; a very presentable copy. 
Price: 15.00 AUD
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10 DOWNIE, Mary Alice and Mary HAMILTON (editors) And Some Brought Flowers. Plants in a New World.
Toronto University of Toronto Press 1980 
166 pages with 70 colour illustrations by E.J. Revell. The bottom edge of the boards slightly marked, else a fine copy in the fine dustwrapper a little sunned on the spine; a presentable copy. 
Price: 11.00 AUD
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11 EASTWOOD, Dorothea The Story of Our Gardens.
Bedford Gordon Fraser 1958 
103 pages with illustrations plus 16 plates. Fine copy in the slightly chipped (missing a small portion from the foot of the spine), torn and sunned dustwrapper; an excellent copy. A brief history of the English garden. One in the Gordon Fraser Gift Books series. 
Price: 6.00 AUD
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12 FOX, Paul Clearings: Six Colonial Gardeners and their Landscapes.
Carlton Miegunyah Press 2004 
Small quarto, 270 pages with numerous illustrations and colour plates. Fine copy in the fine dustwrapper. Number fifty-four in the second numbered series of the Miegunyah Volumes. Printed in an edition of 1500 copies. 
Price: 30.00 AUD
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13 FRICK, Mary (editor) The Rose Society of South Australia 1908-2008.
Richmond Hyde Park Press 2008 
183 pages with numerous illustrations and colour plates. Paperback with minor signs of use; an excellent copy. 
Price: 10.00 AUD
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14 GALINOU, Mireille (Editor); STRONG, Roy (Introduction) London's Pride; the Glorious History of the Capital's Gardens.
London Anaya Publishers 1990 
Quarto, 224 pages with illustrations and colour plates. Paperback with the slightly bumped dustwrapper; an excellent copy. 
Price: 8.00 AUD
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15 GATELY, Iain Tobacco: A Cultural History of How an Exotic Plant Seduced Civilization.
New York Grove Press 2001 
404 pages with illustrations. Fine copy in the fine dustwrapper. 
Price: 3.00 AUD
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16 HELLYER, Arthur Gardens of Genius: Four Centuries Of Great Garden Making In The British Isles.
London Hamlyn 1980 
Quarto, 223 pages with numerous plates (mostly in colour). Fine copy (ownership signature on the flyleaf) in the fine dustwrapper (the title slightly faded). 
Price: 9.00 AUD
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17 HOBHOUSE, Penelope and Elvin McDONALD (editors) Gardens of the World. The Art and Practice of Gardening.
New York Macmillan 1991 
Quarto, 272 pages with numerous colour plates. Fine copy (small inscription on verso of front flyleaf)) in the fine dustwrapper slightly sunned on the spine 
Price: 13.00 AUD
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18 HONIGSBAUM, Mark The Fever Trail: In Search of the Cure for Malaria.
New York Farrar Straus Giroux 2001 
307 pages with maps plus plates. Fine copy in the fine dustwrapper. An engaging account of one of the great sagas of plant hunting and of high adventure and scientific discovery. 
Price: 9.00 AUD
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19 JOHNSON, Hugh The Principles of Gardening: The Science, Practice and History of the Gardener's Art.
London Mitchell Beazley 1979 
Quarto, 272 pages with illustrations and numerous colour plates. Fine copy in the slightly rubbed dustwrapper; an excellent copy. 
Price: 11.00 AUD
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20 JOYCE, David The English Garden Tradition. Learning from the Great Gardeners of Today.
London Century 1987 
Quarto, 160 pages with numerous colour plates. Fine copy in the fine dustwrapper sunned on the spine. 
Price: 5.00 AUD
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