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(Krelage, Ernst Heinrich:) Gedenkboek ter herinnering aan het vijftigjarig bestaan der Algemeene Vereeniging voor Bloembollencultuur te Haarlem 1860-1910.
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Baranova, M.V.: Lilii.
Leningrad, Agropromizdta, 1990, pp. 494, colour-plate illustrations and 44 text-illustrations, small 8vo, illustrated imitation leather. Text in Russian.
€ 25
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Bryan, John E.: Bulbs.
London, Christopher Helm & Portland, Timber Press, 1989, 1. edition, 2 volumes, pp. [vii], 1-218; v, 219-451; numerous colour-plate illustrations; 4to, boards, dust-jackets. New condition.
€ 140
Bronkhorst, G.P.: Gids voor de juiste behandeling van bloembollen in kamer en tuin.
Zwolle, La Rivière & Voorhoeve, 1934, 1. edition, pp. 96, plates, small 8vo, colour-illustrated wrappers.
€ 25
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Bruyn Ouboter, Maria P. de: Tylenchus devastatrix Kühn uit narcis en hyacinth.
Wageningen, H. Veenman, 1930, pp. [ix], 104, text-illustrations, 8vo, printed wrappers. Thesis.
€ 25
Dahlien - Deutsche Dahlien Gesellschaft et al.: Die Dahlie (Dahlia variabilis) ihre Geschichte, Kultur und Verwendung. Ein Buch für den Fachmann und Liebhaber mit 74 Abbildungen und 8 Farbentafeln.
Berlin, Gärtnerische Verlagsgesellschaft, 1926, pp. 137, (1), numerous text-illustrations, facsimile plate of catalogue and 8 colour-plates, large oblong 8vo, cloth-backed gilt-decorated boards (small corner of lower boards missing). Well preserved copy.
€ 110
Davids, Arlette: Tulipes, jacinthes, narcisses … Les fleurs. Dessinés par Arlette Davids. Texte par la princesse Bibesco.
Paris, Hypérion, 1940, pp. [vi], 41 leaves with names and index, 40 colour-plates after water-colours, folio (160 x 358 mm), cloth. Book-plates.
€ 210
* Nissen BBI 452na.
Dix, Johan Frederik Christiaan: De veredeling van tulpen, hyacinten, narcissen en irissen. [+] Hoog, M.H.: De oorsprong van de Tulipa.
Hillegom, Koninklijke Algemeene Vereeniging voor Bloembollencultuur, 1974, pp. [iii], 94, text-illustrations, 4to, colour-illustrated stiff wrappers.
€ 30
A compilation of articles published in Bloembollencultuur. 		click to view pictures + description
Dix, Johan Frederik Christiaan: Diverse winterharde bolgewassen (bijgoed).
Amsterdam, Kosmos & Assen, Willem van Gorcum, [ca. 1926], pp. 64, (8, adv.), 37 text-illustrations, 8vo, illustrated wrappers. Weten en kunnen.
€ 30
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Dix, Johan Frederik Christiaan: Gladiolus of zwaardlelies. Hare geschiedenis, cultuur en behandeling.
Amsterdam, Kosmos & Assen, W. van Gorcum, [1926], pp. 64, (8, adv.), 21 text-illustrations, small 8vo, illustrated wrappers. Weten en kunnen.
€ 30
Dix, Johan Frederik Christiaan: Het kweeken en verzorgen van bloembollen in kamer, kas en tuin.
Amsterdam, Kosmos, (1936), pp. 111, (3, adv.), text-illustrations, 8vo, boards, dust-jacket.
€ 30
Dix, Johan Frederik Christiaan: Narcissen voor kamer en tuin. Met een voorwoord van Ernst H. Krelage.
Amsterdam, Kosmos & Assen, Willem van Gorcum, [1926], pp. 64, (16, adv.), 16 text-illustrations, 8vo, illustrated wrappers. Weten en kunnen.
€ 30
Dykes, William Rickatson: Irises.
London & Edinburgh, J.C. & E.C. Jack, [1912], pp. xiii, 110, 8 colour-plates, 8vo, uncut, boards with mounted colour-plate. Present-day gardening. Fine copy.
€ 50
Dykes, William Rickatson: The genus Iris. With forty-seven coloured drawings by F.H. Round, one coloured plate of seeds by miss R.M. Cardew and thirty line drawings by C.W. Johnson.
(Cambridge, 1913), New York, Dover, 1974, pp. [vi], 245, text-illustrations and 48 colour-plates, small folio, cloth, dust-jacket.
€ 70
* Cf. Nissen 574; Stafleu & Cowan TL2/32.314. Reprint in slightly (20%) reduced format.
Feldmaier, Carl: Die neue Lilien.
Stuttgart, Eugen Ulmer, 1967, pp. 238, (2, adv.), numerous text-illustrations and 73 photo-illustrations (8 in colour), 8vo, cloth, dust-jacket (worn).
€ 35
Fogg, H.G. Witham: Lilies and their cultivation.
 London, John Gifford, 1961, pp. 157, colour-frontispiece and 28 photo-plate illustrations (partly in colour), cloth, dust-jacket.
€ 25
Franken, Tjebbo: Het bloembollenboek. Een roman in kleuren en geuren.
Amsterdam, A. Blitz, [1930], pp. 244, plain plate-illustrations, 16 colour-plate illustrations and text-illustrations (line-drawings), large 8vo, colour-decorated cloth (spine slightly rubbed and stained).
€ 40
Franken, Tjebbo: Het bloembollenboek. Een roman in kleuren en geuren.
Amsterdam, A. Blitz, [1930], pp. 244, plain plate-illustrations, 16 colour-plate illustrations and text-illustrations (line-drawings), large 8vo, cloth-backed boards colour-decorated boards.
€ 40
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Franken, Tjebbo: Het bloembollenboek. Een roman in kleuren en geuren.
Amsterdam, A. Blitz, [1930], pp. 244, plain plate-illustrations, 16 colour-plate illustrations and text-illustrations (line-drawings), large 8vo, colour-decorated cloth, dust-jacket (repaired).
€ 45
Garrity, John Bentley: Gladioli for everyone.
 Newton Abbot, etc., David & Charles, 1975, pp. 196, photo-illustrations and drawings, 8vo, boards, dust-jacket.
€ 25
Grunert, Christian: Das große Blumenzwiebelbuch. Blumenzwiebel- und Knollengewächse, Gattungen, Arten und Sorten, ihre Verwendung, Ansprüche, Vermehrung und Anzucht.
Berlin, Deutscher Landwirtschaftsverlag, 1970, 2. edition, pp. 384, 86 colour- and 91 plain photo-illustrations and 47 drawings in text, 8vo, cloth, dust-jacket.
€ 35
Herbert, William: Amaryllidaceae; preceded by an attempt to arrange the monocotyledonous orders, and followed by a treatise on cross-bred vegetables, and supplement.
(London, James Ridgway, 1837), Lehre, J. Cramer, 1970, pp. [iii], 93, frontispiece-portrait, viii, 1-416, 416*, 417-428, 48 plates, large 8vo, cloth. Historiae naturalis classica.
€ 150
A revision of Liliaceous plants, and an account of hybridization by a skilful observer (Jackson). Originally issued as an appendix to volume 48 of the Botanical magazine, 1821, with only four plates. The fine plates are by the author and were engraved by H.H. Weddell. This facsimile edition with an extensive commentary by Hamilton P. Traub: An introduction to Herbert’s Amaryllidaceae, etc. 1837 and related works, pp. 93.
* Cf. Nissen BBI 857; Jackson p. 123; Great flower books p. 59; Stafleu & Cowan 2665.
Hytunadi, J.H.: Bloembollen voor kamer en tuin. Een handleiding voor vakman en liefhebber.
Amsterdam, Noord-Hollandsche Uitg., [ca. 1935], pp. 116, text-illustrations (photos), large 8vo, cloth.
€ 30
Hytunadi, J.H.: Bloembollen voor kamer en tuin. Een handleiding voor vakman en liefhebber.
Amsterdam, Noord-Hollandsche Uitg., [ca. 1935], pp. 116, text-illustrations (photos), large 8vo, illustrated stiff wrappers.
€ 25
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Innes, Clive: The world of Iridaceae. A comprehensive record.
Ashington, Holly Gate, 1985, pp. vi, 407, 252 plate-illustrations (mostly photos in colour and some line-drawings), large oblong 8vo, buckram, dust-jacket. New condition.
€ 50
Jacob, Joseph: Daffodils.
London & Edinburgh, J.C. & E.C. Jack, [ca. 1912], pp. xii, 115, (1), 8 colour-plates, 8vo, uncut, printed boards with mounted colour-plate. Present-Day Gardening. Slight foxing and unobtrusive library stamps. Well preserved copy.
€ 30
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Jacob, Joseph: Tulpen. Hare geschiedenis, beschrijving en behandeling. Een boek voor liefhebbers die zelf kweken willen.
Amsterdam, Scheltema & Holkema, (1912), pp. xii, 147, 8 colour- and 6 plain plates, 8vo, uncut, decorated wrappers (worn). Library stamps.
€ 25
Adapted from the English publication by E.Th. Witte.
Janse, J.A.: In geuren en kleuren. Een geschiedenis van de Hollandse bolgewassen.
Utrecht, A. Oosthoek, 1966, pp. 115, plates (partly in colour) and text-illustrations, small 8vo, colour-illustrated boards.
€ 25
Jefferson-Brown, Michael: Daffodils, tulips and other hardy bulbs.
London, John Gifford, 1966, 1. edition, pp. 160, 33 photo-plate illustrations, 8vo, boards, dust-jacket.
€ 25
Jekyll, Gertrude: Lilies. Introduced and revised by Graham Stuart Thomas.
(London, 1901, 1. edition), Salem, The Ayer Company, 1983, pp. xxi, 72, text-illustrations and plates (22 in colour), 8vo, cloth-backed boards, dust-jacket.
€ 20
Kampen, Nicolaas van & zoon: Abhandlung von Zwiebelgewächsen, worinnen alles dasjenige, was sowohl zu dem Bau und Fortpflanzung als auch zu nöthiger Pflege und Wartung dieser Gewächse erforderlich ist, den Blumenliebhabern aus vieljähriger Erfahrung aufrichtig eröfnet wird; aus dem Französichen des Herrn Nicolaus van Kampen und Sohn, Blumisten zu Harlem in Holland.
Regensburg, Johann Leopold Montag, 1764, 1. German edition, [xvi], 144, small 8vo, uncut, marbled boards (spine-ends worn). Upper corner title-page worn, effecting a few letters of the title. Some foxing, but well preserved copy.
€ 540
The rare German edition of this work on the cultivation of bulbous and tuberous plants, particularly Hyacinthus, Tulipa, Anemone and Ranunculus. First published in 1760 as Traité des fleurs à oignons.
* Dochnahl p. 81; Krelage pp. 15-18; Pavord pp. 192-197. 		click to view pictures + description
Kleeman, C.H.: Kort en grondig onderwijs, in het kweeken der meest gezochte bolgewassen. Gevolgd naar het Hoogduitsch van C.H. Kleeman. Systematisch gerangschikt, met de geslachts- en soortskenmerken en eenige bolgewassen vermeerderd. Door J.A.B. Kuyper van Waschpenning. Voorafgegaan van het geslachtsstelsel van Linnaeus.
Breda, F.P. Sterk, 1829, pp. [iii*], iii, v**, 127, (1), small 8vo, uncut, printed wrappers.
€ 160
After Kurze und gründliche Anweisung zur Kultur der beliebteste Zwiebelgewächse, ..., 1828 (Dochnahl p. 83, mentioning as author Kleemann).
* Johnston 957. 		click to view pictures + description
Koninklijke Algemeene Vereeniging voor Bloembollencultuur: Classified list and international register of hyacinths and other bulbous and tuberous-rooted plants.
 Hillegom, Koninklijke Algemeene Vereeniging voor Bloembollencultuur/The Royal General Bulbgrowers’ Association, 1975, pp. 277, small 8vo, printed wrappers.
€ 25
Krelage, Ernst Heinrich: Bloemenspeculatie in Nederland. De tulpomanie van 1636-‘37 en de hyacintenhandel 1720-‘36.
Amsterdam, P.N. van Kampen, 1942, pp. 206, plates, 8vo, cloth-backed boards. Patria.
€ 25
Krelage, Ernst Heinrich: Drie eeuwen bloembollenexport. De geschiedenis van den bloembollenhandel en der Hollandsche bloembollen tot 1938.
‘s-Gravenhage, Rijksuitgeverij, 1946, pp. xxxviii, 791, diagrams, photo-plates (partly in colour), text-illustrations, facsimiles (some folding), etc., 4to, gilt-illustrated cloth. Fine copy.
€ 360
Extensively illustrated with diagrams, photo-plates, text-illustrations, facsimiles (some folding), etc. The so-called Bollenbijbel. 		click to view pictures + description
Krelage, Ernst Heinrich: Drie eeuwen bloembollenexport. De geschiedenis van den bloembollenhandel en der Hollandsche bloembollen tot 1938.
‘s-Gravenhage, Rijksuitgeverij, 1946, pp. xxxviii, 791, diagrams, photo-plates (partly in colour), text-illustrations, facsimiles (some folding), etc., 4to, gilt-illustrated cloth. Unobtrusive library stamp on title-page.
€ 300
Extensively illustrated with diagrams, photo-plates, text-illustrations, facsimiles (some folding), etc. The so-called Bollenbijbel.
(Krelage, Ernst Heinrich:) Gedenkboek ter herinnering aan het vijftigjarig bestaan der Algemeene Vereeniging voor Bloembollencultuur te Haarlem 1860-1910.
Haarlem, 1910, pp. xii, 152, frontispiece-portrait of J.H. Krelage and numerous text-illustrations, folio (250 x 315 mm), top-edge gilt, canvas and blank cloth with fine gilt decoration by André Vlaanderen. Issued by the society and not for trade.
€ 160
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Krelage, Ernst Heinrich: Kultur und Handel der Blumenzwiebel in den Niederlanden.
 Amsterdam, Amsterdamsche Bank, 1929, pp. 8, wrappers, 4to. Offprint.
€ 25
Leeuwen, L. van: Flora’s lentefeest in Kennemerland. Een overzicht van de bloemenweelde die te zien is op de tentoonstelling Flora.
Amsterdam, J.M. Meulenhoff, (1935), pp. 102, photo-illustrations, 8vo, limp boards, illustrated wrappers. Exhibition catalogue.
€ 25
Lindemuth, H.: Schönblühende Knollengewächse.
Berlin, Karl Siegismund, (1900), pp. [i], 60, 20 engraved text-illustrations, small 8vo, limp cloth. Gartenbau-Bibliothek.
€ 25
Lindemuth, H.: Schönblühende Zwiebelgewächse.
Berlin, Karl Siegismund, (1900), pp. [i], 65, 30 engraved text-illustrations, small 8vo, limp cloth. Gartenbau-Bibliothek.
€ 25
Lodewijk, Tom: Het boek van de tulp.
 Alphen aan den Rijn, A.W. Sijthoff, 1978, pp. 128, profusely illustrated (partly in colour), 4to, colour-illustrated boards.
€ 25
Marshall, W.E.: Consider the lilies.
New York, W.E. Marshall & Co., 192, 1. edition, pp. 86, text-illustrations (partly in colour), square 8vo, gilt pictorial cloth. Enclosed colour-illustrated supplement, order sheets and price lists. Fine copy.
€ 30
Mathew, Brian: Dwarf bulbs.
New York, Arco, 1973, pp. 240, text-illustrations (line-drawings) and photo-plate illustrations (partly in colour), 8vo, cloth, dust-jacket.
€ 25
Maxwell, Alice Constable: Lilies in their homes.
London, Collins, 1953, pp. 256, text-illustrations, photo-frontispiece and -plates, small 8vo, cloth.
€ 25
Mol, W.E. de: De wetenschappelijke beteekenis van de veredeling der Hollandsche bloembolgewassen. Eerste deel. Anomaliën, ontstaan door somatische variatie, kruising en modificatie, als uitgangspunt van onderzoekingen naar de morphologische beteekenis, de erfelijke eigenschappen en de veredeling van de paracorolla der narcissen.
Amsterdam, S.L. van Looy, 1923, pp. xv, 128, colour-frontispiece, text-illustrations, plain plates and colour-plates, large 8vo, uncut, printed wrappers. Fine copy in the unusual original wrappers and with the text on the title-page Eerste deel not pasted over.
€ 40
A second part Het verloopen van de bloemkleur der hyacinten was published in 1923 and is rather rare. 		click to view pictures + description
Mol, W.E. de: De wetenschappelijke beteekenis van de veredeling der Hollandsche bloembolgewassen. Eerste deel. Anomaliën, ontstaan door somatische variatie, kruising en modificatie, als uitgangspunt van onderzoekingen naar de morphologische beteekenis, de erfelijke eigenschappen en de veredeling van de paracorolla der narcissen.
Amsterdam, S.L. van Looy, 1923, pp. xv, 128, colour-frontispiece, text-illustrations, plain plates and colour-plates, large 8vo, uncut, cloth-backed boards (rubbed). Library stamps.
€ 25
A second part Het verloopen van de bloemkleur der hyacinten was published in 1923 and is rather rare.
Mol, W.E. de: De wetenschappelijke beteekenis van de veredeling der Hollandsche bloembolgewassen. Tweede deel. Het verloopen van de bloemkleur der hyacinten (with a summary in English: Somatic mutation of the flower-colour in hyacinths).
Lisse, Imperator, 1935, [xii], 236, (1), colour-frontispiece, 73 plate-illustrations (including frontispiece and partly in colour), folding table, large 8vo, finely gilt embossed cloth. This second part is rather rare. Cancelled library stamps.
€ 100
Mol, W.E. de: De wetenschappelijke beteekenis van de veredeling der Hollandsche bloembolgewassen. Tweede deel. Het verloopen van de bloemkleur der hyacinten (with a summary in English: Somatic mutation of the flower-colour in hyacinths).
Lisse, Imperator, 1935, [xii], 236, (1), colour-frontispiece, 73 plate-illustrations (including frontispiece and partly in colour), folding table, large 8vo, finely gilt embossed cloth. This second part is rather rare. Fine copy.
€ 115
Mynett, Kazimierz: Lilie.
Warszawa, Państwowe Wydawnictwo Rolnicze i Leśne, 1993, pp. 171, (1), text-illustrations and 100 colour-photo illustrations in text, 8vo, colour-illustrated boards.
€ 30
Olphen, H.A. van: [Collection colour-plates of bulbs and tuberous plants.]
Haarlem, H.A. van Olphen, [ca. 1910], 94 fine decorative chromolithographed plates, inserted index-leaves in handwriting, small folio (214 x 297 mm), embossed cloth (slightly rubbed). The numbered plates are extra numbered in blue pencil in the upper right corner: 1-19, 19a, 20, 20a-b, 21-24, 24a-b, 25-32, 32a, 33-36, 36a-b, 37-40, 40a-b, 41-44, 44a-d, 45-47, 47a-b, 48-51, 51a-b, 52-60, 60a, 61-75. Plate-leaves vary in size from 195 x 252 mm - 340 x 520 mm (folding leaf) and are mounted on stubs.
€ 2.600
Most plates with copyright H.A. van Olphen, Printer, Publisher, Haarlem - Holland, and with monogram VO; some plates: Senefelder Luminochrome Amst[erdam]. Apparently intended for promotion the products of the Dutch bulb-trade. 		click to view pictures + description
Ortlepp, Karl: Monographie der Füllungserscheinungen bei Tulpenblüten, nebst einem Anhange über die Kultur und das Treiben gefüllter Tulpen.
Leipzig, Theod. Oswald Weigel, 1915, pp. vi, 267, (1), 8 text-illustrations and 3 fine chromolithographed plates by M. Asperger, large 8vo, printed wrappers (slightly rubbed). Unobtrusive cancelled library stamps.
€ 90
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Pavord, Anna: De tulp.
[n.p.], Anthos, 1999, 1. Dutch edition, pp. [vii], 440, numerous full-page text-illustrations (mostly in colour), large 8vo, boards, dust-jacket.
€ 30
Petrová, Eva: Plantes bulbeuses et tubéreuses. Atlas illustré.
Paris, Gründ, 1974, pp. 239, fine colour-plates by Frantisek Severa, small 8vo, colour-illustrated boards.
€ 25
The Royal Horticultural Society: The daffodil and tulip year-book 1946. Number twelve.
London, The Royal Horticultural Society, 1946, pp. [vi], 175, frontispiece-portraits and 46 photo-plate illustrations, 8vo, printed wrappers.
€ 30
The Royal Horticultural Society: The daffodil and tulip year-book 1947. Number thirteen.
London, The Royal Horticultural Society, 1947, pp. 133, frontispiece-portrait and 29 plate illustrations (1 in colour and mostly photos), 8vo, gilt cloth.
€ 30
Scheepen, Johan van (editor): International checklist for hyacinths and miscellaneous bulbs. International register and classified list of hyacinths and other bulbous, cormous and tuberous rooted plants.
Hillegom, Royal Bulbgrowers Association, 1991, pp. xlii, 409, large 8vo, limp plastic. New condition.
€ 30
Scheepers, John (publisher): Beauty from bulbs. A treatise on the leading varieties of bulbs suitable for outdoor and indoor culture and of proven merit for American gardens.
New York, John Scheepers, (1931), pp. 172, plate-illustrations (mostly in colour), large 8vo, decorated limp cloth. Combined index and order booklet enclosed. Slighly stained in inner upper corner.
€ 65
Schlittler, Jakob: Monographie der Liliaceengattung Dianella Lam.
Zürich, Fluntern, 1940, pp. [i], 5-283, 35 plate-illustrations, 8vo, printed wrappers. Thesis. Mitteilungen aus dem Botanischen Museum der Universität Zürich.
€ 40
Synge, Patrick M.: Collins guide to bulbs.
London, Collins, 1961, 1. edition, pp. 320, text-illustrations, 32 colour-plates and 24 plain photo-plates, 8vo, gilt-decorated cloth, dust-jacket.
€ 30
Vriese, Willem Hendrik de: Bijdrage tot de morphologie der bollen.
[Amsterdam, 1841], pp. 17, folding lithographed plate of Ixia, 8vo, unopened, printed wrappers. Offprint of Tijdschr. voor Nat. Gesch.
€ 55
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Woodcock, Hubert Bayley Drysdale & William Thomas Stearn: Lilies of the world. Their cultivation & classification.
London, Country Life & New York, Charles Scribner, 1950, 1. edition, pp. 431, 136 text-illustrations (photos and line-drawings), large 8vo, embossed cloth, dust-jacket. Fine copy.
€ 65
* Stafleu & Cowan 19.254.
Zwetsloot, Joh.H.: De cultuur der bloembollen. Practische behandeling der voornaamste en meest bekende bolgewassen voor de kamer, den vollen grond, alsmede voor het trekken benevens eenige korte wenken voor het kweeken der meest bekende knolgewassen.
Zutphen, Schillemans & Van Belkum, [ca. 1907], pp. vii, 133, 72 text-illustrations, half cloth with marbled boards and mounted front wrapper. Cancelled library stamps.
€ 30
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