The Complete Garden Makeover Book by Katie Miller

The Complete Garden Makeover Book by Katie Miller lands on the shelves of my shop.

Index, 2001, Hardback in dust wrapper.

Illustrated by way of: Colour Photographs; Colour Drawings; Diagrams; Tables;

From the cover: This comprehensive guide will help you to make the most of your garden, whatever its shape, size or location. Whether you desire a lush space to entertain friends on summer nights, dream of creating a private garden retreat, or crave a sun-drenched patio to lounge on, you will find the information you need within these pages.

The Complete Garden Makeover Book is fully illustrated with hundreds of step-by-step diagrams. It offers expert advice on how to plan and start improving your garden, then provides detailed information about creating every type of garden feature:

• paths
• steps
• patios and courtyards
• outdoor furniture
• fences and screens
• gates
• decking
• stairs
• pergolas and shelters
• pools and ponds
• barbecues
• benches

Complete with resource guides for gardening and building and a chapter on special purpose gardens you will find The Complete Garden Makeover Book is packed with wonderful ideas to help you create your ideal garden.

Very Good in Very Good Dust Wrapper. A little rubbing to the edges of the dust wrapper. Text complete, clean and tight.

Matching Pictorial boards. 295 pages. Index. 11¼” x 8¾”.

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The Bread Machine Book: Over 100 Recipes For Easy-to-make, Spectacular Breads by Marjie Lambert

The Bread Machine Book: Over 100 Recipes For Easy-to-make, Spectacular Breads by Marjie Lambert lands on the shelves of my shop.

Apple Press, 1998, Hardback in dust wrapper.

Illustrated by way of: Colour Photographs;

From the cover: THERE IS nothing quite like the fragrance, texture and taste of freshly baked bread. If you believe the myths that breadmaking is hard work and that yeast is a mystery, let The Bread Machine Book enlighten you.

A bread machine makes bread making one of the easiest tasks in the kitchen, yet it produces spectacular results. The introduction to The Bread Machine Book will help you get to know your machine, and a comprehensive troubleshooting guide will ensure perfect results every time. Over 100 recipes follow, from dense breads made with molasses or rye to white breads, Italian olive breads and delicious loaves made with grains, nuts, fruits and vegetables. Sweet breads, buns, bagels and breadsticks are among the variations at your fingertips, and more international flavour is added with two sections on breads that are customary to particular countries. All you have to do is measure the ingredients and set the timer the bread machine does the rest.

Very Good in Very Good Dust Wrapper. A little rubbing to the edges of the dust wrapper with a small ding to the upper panel and a nick to the top corner of the lower. Text complete, clean and tight.

Brown boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. 128 pages. Index. 11¼” x 8¾”.

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Operation Millennium by Shaun Clarke

Operation Millennium by Shaun Clarke lands on the shelves of my shop.

Simon & Schuster, 1999, Hardback in dust wrapper.

From the cover: Britain is in the grip of millennium fever, as reactionary forces attempt to overthrow the infrastructure of the Establishment by any means necessary. Widespread social breakdown has led to paranoid religious and political movements enticing vulnerable people to their top-secret retreats, where they are brainwashed and turned into fanatics. The disenfranchised, disillusioned die-hard remains of societys forgotten dream are up in arms, with the fearful megalomaniac, Prince, as their leader. After planting several bombs in key London locations, their next target is Buckingham Palace and the Royal family

The only way to combat the threat of insurrection is by employing the QRF Quick Reaction Force with SAS Sergeant Lenny Cusack at the helm. The QRF is a legend in its own time, having successfully tackled every kind of terrorist threat, but pitted against the fervent genius of Prince its steely strength is tested to the maximum. And, while Cusack is undoubtedly the SASs hardest man, he is grief-stricken by the loss of his family to one of the religious groups he now finds himself up against

Very Good in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Printers stamp to the title page otherwise a very well presented copy.

Black boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. 340 pages. 9½” x 6¼”.

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Pure Curiosity: Botanical Letters and Notes Towards a Dictionary of Botanical Terms by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Pure Curiosity: Botanical Letters and Notes Towards a Dictionary of Botanical Terms by Jean-Jacques Rousseau lands on the shelves of my shop.

Paddington Press, 1979, Hardback in dust wrapper.

First in this edition. Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Colour Plates;

From the cover: An elegant and enchanting excursion into the world of botanical observation, Pure Curiosity combines the acute perception and sensitivity of the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau with the skill and artistry of one of the greatest names in the history of botanical illustration, Pierre-Joseph Redoute, the celebrated Salon painter once hailed as the Raphael of flowers.

Throughout his lifetime Rousseau displayed a passionate interest in the study of plants and flowers, but never more so than in his last fifteen years, beginning in 1762 when the French government condemned Émille and he was forced to flee France to seek asylum in his native Switzerland. It was here, particularly on the island of Saint-Pierre in Lake Biel, and later in England, at Woolen Hall near the Staffordshire-Derbyshire border, that he began his botanical studies in earnest as much as a means of solace as out of a profound desire to classify and categorize the natural world about him.

Between 1771 and 1773 Rousseau encapsulated his experiences and observations in a series of eight letters written to guide a friend to instruct her daughter in the principles of botany. It is these so-called elementary letters that form the basis of Pure Curiosity. Notable for their charm, delicacy and lightness of touch, the letters were circulated widely in the intellectual salons fashionable at the time. First published in 1782, five years after his death, in a collected edition of his work, the letters were subsequently issued on their own in 1800 and 1802. It was not until 1805, however with the stunning addition of sixty-five color plates created from Redoutes minutely observed and magnificently executed watercolour illustrations that La Botanique, as it had come to be called, was hailed as a classic amongst connoisseurs of both flowers and books.

Superbly designed and produced, with a perceptive critical introduction by Roy McMullen, Pure Curiosity is a facsimile edition based on a new translation of Rousseaus letters and tin-colour plates of the third (1821) edition of La Botanique. Much more than just another flower album from a bygone era, it will delight and fascinate gardeners, plant lovers and any other thinking, sensitive human being who enjoys observing nature and the marvels of the universe.

Very Good in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Edges of the text block lightly spotted. Text complete, clean and tight.

Green Marbled Effect boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. 154 pages. Index. 10″ X 7¾”.

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