An Oak Spring Sylva is the first of a series of discursive catalogues describing selections of the rare books and other material in the Oak Spring Garden Library, a collection formed by Mrs. Paul Mellon. Each volume in the Oak Spring series will be a lovely and useful compendium for book collectors, librarians, and garden historians. This volume, which deals with books and manuscripts on trees, describes nearly fifty books, manuscripts, or drawings, from a tiny 1555 book on oaks to early nineteenth-century advice manuals on large-scale tree planting.

An Oak Spring Sylva: A Selection of the Rare Books on Trees in the Oak Spring Garden Library (Oak Spring Garden Foundation Series)

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Raphael, Sandra

Gardening & Landscape Design

Oak Spring Garden Library

An Oak Spring Pomona is the second in a series of catalogues describing selections of rare books and other material in the Oak Spring Garden Library, a collection formed by Mrs. Paul Mellon. The Pomona describes one hundred books and manuscripts about fruit, with illustrations taken from some of the most beautiful books on the subject as well as from original drawings and paintings. The earliest book described is Bussatos Giardino di Agricoltura of 1592, the latest The Herefordshire Pomona, an encyclopedia of apples and pears from the 1870s. In between there are fruit books large and small: La Quintinie's Instruction pour les Jardins fruitiers, Duhamel's Traite des arbres fruitiers, and many others. The book is divided into sections on fruit-growing in France and Britain, fruit elsewhere in Europe, and fruit in America, as well as citrus fruit, apples and pears, peaches and soft fruit, grapes, melons, and tropical fruit. Each description gives the background of the book and its relationship to others and is accompanied by illustrations of its contents in color and black and white. The Pomona includes not only brief bibliographical summaries of each book but also background wssays that place the books in a historical setting.

An Oak Spring Pomona : A Selection of the Rare Books on Fruit in the Oak Spring Garden Library

Studies the development of manuscript and printed herbals, their making and decoration, and their medicinal significance and reproduces over sixty illustrations from forty-three different herbals

The Illustrated Herbal (Manuscripts)

Science & Math

BLUNT, Wilfrid

Biological Sciences

Thames and Hudson/Metropolitan Museum of Art

This beautiful and original book, fully illustrated from some of the rarest sources, is an account by two leading authorities of the creation and decoration of Europe's most charming herbals. The illustrations, many in splendid color, are taken from manuscripts and books chronicling human curiosity about the medicinal properties of plants, and making an unconscious record, through the strange (sometimes ludicrous) customs and procedures they describe, of life in past times.

The Illustrated Herbal

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Alternative Medicine

Thames&Hudson

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd

The magnificent manuscript, Egerton MS 747, reproduced here for the first time, is one of the most precious documents in the collections of The British Library. It is an illustrated herbal which was written in Italy around AD 1300, and is significant as it is probably the original manuscript of the Tractatus de herbis, a type of medieval herbal that was to become one of the most influential texts on medicinal plants. It contains a vast corpus of information about plants and their uses, inherited from Greek, Roman and Arabic sources, and combines this with 406 botanical paintings. The book covers an extraordinary range of vegetables, fruits and minerals, from quince to quicksilver and turnips to tamarind, with instructions on how to prepare each substance. Lively images of snakes, scorpions and wild dogs allude to their dangers, but there are also suggestions of the aphrodisiac, cosmetic and magical properties of herbs. Printed in full colour, on paper specially made to simulate vellum, it is impossible not to be captivated by this impressive facsimile.

A Medieval Herbal

Collins, Minta

The British Library

Prayer Journal for Women: 90 Days of Praise, Prayer & Gratitude through the Psalms

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

N&F Planners and Journals

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