Rose Books
Old, antique and rare rose books from 1800-present for sale. Many are signed and first editions.
Highlights
Sitwell & Russell
Blunt & Russell
Old Garden Roses vol 1 #161 crossed out, "Out of Series" written underneath London 1955, signed by Russell and artist Charles Raymond
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Old Garden Roses vol 2 #144 London 1957
signed by the authors, Blunt, Russell and artist, Charles Raymond
S Coggiatti & AM Trechslin
Roses d'Autun Berne 1975 (signed)
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Paul Hariot
Le Livre d'Or des Roses Paris 1903
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H Jamain & E Forney
Les Roses Paris 1873
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John Lindley
Rosarum Monographia London, 1820
Two different copies.
1: Colored Plates (Click here for photos.) - SOLD
2: Uncolored Plates (Click here for photos.)
Charles Malo
Histoire des Roses Paris 1818
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Ellen Willmott
The Genus Rosa 1910, 1914 Volumes I and II - SOLD
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Henry Curtis
Beauties of the Rose
1850, 1853
Two Volumes bound together
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Julius Hoffmann
Rosenbuch für Gartenliebhaber
Berlin, 1905
Samuel B. Parsons
Parsons on the Rose
NY, 1869 (first edition)
Albert Rausch
Die Welt der Rose
Oberhessen, 1928 (first edition)
Many of the entries have multiple copies, some with variation between the volumes.
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Click here to download a PDF file of a list of Rose Books.
(33 pages)
For more rose books, please visit
Limberlost Roses.
Look for the new The Encyclopedia of Antique Roses,
a faithful reproduction of the monthly issues of the first six years of the French "Journal Des Roses", from January 1877 through December 1882.
An outstanding reproduction!