Search Results: Landscape from Carnegie Hill Books

New Haven, CT: Yale Center for British Art, 1983. Quarto. 107 pp; numerous b/w illustrations; bibliography. Paperback. Near Fine, a crisp, clean copy. Exhibition catalogue with 85 entries.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

New Haven, CT: Yale Center for British Art, 1983. Quarto. 107 pp; numerous b/w illustrations; bibliography. Paperback. Near Fine, except for discreet bookplate on inside front cover, a crisp, clean copy. Exhibition catalogue with 85 entries.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

NY: George Braziller, 1972. Octavo. 180 pp; 105 b/w illustrations; bibliography; index. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, ink lines in margin on 2 pages, else a clean copy; price-clipped jacket with a few short edge tears. The author provides a comprehensive analysis of the principles and theories that motivated Olmsted, along with illustrated examples of his many works throughout the U.S.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

NY: Charles Scribner's Sons for The Garden Club of America, 1931. Two volumes, 1931-34. Folio. xxii, 464 pp; xxi, 444 pp; profusely illustrated with hundreds of b/w photographs and plans. Two-tone cloth with gilt-stamped titles. VG. Vol. 1 covers the Northeast and Midwest, Vol. 2 covers the South plus California. A major reference work on landscape architecture--still considered to be the best book on early American gardens.. Hard Cover. Very Good.

Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks, 1980. Large octavo. 133 pp; numerous b/w illustrations; list of Loudon's publications. Gilt-lettered green cloth, no jacket as issued. Near Fine, discreet bookplate on front pastedown, else a clean, unmarked copy. Six essays on the life and work of. J.C. Loudon (1783-1843), outstanding landscape gardener and horticultural writer.. Hard Cover. Near Fine.

Bruxelles: Archives d'Architecture Modern, 2002. Large quarto. 286 pp; color photographs throughout, plans. Text in French. Silver-lettered gray cloth with dustjacket. NF/NF, attractive 4" x 6" bookplate affixed to front free endpaper, else a crisp, unmarked copy, top of spine gently bumped. Rene Pechere (1908-2002), Belgian landscape architect, became known by the garden of four seasons and the Congolese garden he conceived for the Exhibition of Brussels in 1958. He created gardens for castles or simple houses in Belgium, France, Germany and Holland. The labyrinth and the garden of the heart he drew for Mr and Mrs Van Buuren in Uccle insured him an international fame. Sylvie Desauw photographed the gardens during the different seasons.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1978. First edition. Quarto. xiii, 137 pp plus 173 b/w illustrations; extensive bibliography; index. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, a small bookplate on front pastedown, else a clean, unmarked copy; light creasing at base of jacket spine. A scholarly work on French picturesque gardens, including Ermenonville, Monceau, Mereville, Chantilly, and others.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Co., 1905. First edition. Octavo. 115 pages, illustrated with folding maps, diagrams, and 7 full-page photographic plates. Brown cloth, title in gilt to cover and spine. Book is in very good, clean, bright and tight condition.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

London: National Trust / George Philip, 1990. First edition. Octavo. 176 pp; profuse color & b/w illustrations; index. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine; a clean, unmarked copy in price-clipped jacket.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.