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Touraine The garden of France
by Guignard, V
Tours: Maison Alfred Mame, 1937. First edition. Hardcover. Three quarter navy morocco and blue cloth lettered in gilt. Teg. Very good. 25 pages in text. Small folio 31 x 23 cm. Illustrated with photographs and woodcuts. A lagniappe, complements of the Hotel De l'Univers, Tours. Lovely presentation, armorial bookplate, corners nicked, small abrasion front cover.
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£20.19
A Practical Treatise Of Husbandry: Wherein are contained, many Useful and Valuable Experiments and Observations In The New Husbandry, etc...; Also, The most approved Practice of the best English Farmers in the Old Method of Husbandry
by Duhamel du Monceau, Henri-Louis
London: C. Hitch and L. Hawes, et al., 1762. Second edition, corrected and improved. leather_bound. Contemporary full brown calf rebacked in antique style. Near fine. 489 pages [*4,B4-Rrr4], 25 1/2 x 21 cm. 4to, six copperplate engravings (4 folding), and one folding table. A French botanist and engineer, Duhamel was probably the first to distinguish clearly between alkalis, potash and soda. His continuing energy in experiments in vegetable physiology gained him admission to the Academy in 1728. This...
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£436.10
Jardin mediéval
by Maurières, Arnaud; Ossart, Eric; Mayer, Joëlle Caroline; Le Scanff, Gilles
Editions du Chêne, 2003. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. Text in French..
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£40.38
Cemeteries
by EGGENER, KEITH
New York: Norton, 2010 A monograph on the American cemetery, from early churchyards, rural and family plots, the finely designed parks of the late 19th century where tombs and crypts were sited in rustic wooded grounds designed by leading landscape architects. First edition. 28 cm; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.
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£48.46
Structuring Confluence: W Architecture and Landscape Architecture
by WILKS, BARBARA
ORO, 2014 Trade catalog for the New York firm showing recent (2004) work and projects. First edition. 27 cm; 124 pp; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A fine copy in cloth-backed boards, published without a dust jacket..
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£24.23
Craig Johnson's Country Matters: Antique Garden Ornament and Statuary
by JOHNSON, CRAIG
Los Olivos: Craig Johnson, N.d. [c. 1985] Elaborate trade catalog for defunct California garden ornament dealer Craig Johnson. Fifty items show in photographs mounted to cards with desciptions. Price list laid-in. Pieces shown mostly stone and wrought iron, and imported. Sheets loose in cardboard portfolio, as issued. This is Portfolio No. 60082 of an unspecified limitation. Plates fine; portfolio showing wear, rubbing and lacking one ribbon tie..
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£76.72
Montclair: The Preservation of Its Natural Beauty and Its Improvement as a Residence Town. Report of John Nolan Landscape Architect to the Municipal Art Commission and the Commission's Recommendations to the Citizens of Montclair
by John Nolen
New York: Styles and Nash, 1909. Hardcover. Good in moderately worn boards. Wear to the corner tips and the upper and lower spine edges, soiling and rubbing to the covers, else very good in brown linen with brown embossed titles to the front cover and gilt embossed titles to the spine; no dust jacket.. Quarto. 102 pp. Illustrated with photographs of potential housing, buildings, playgrounds, parks, school grounds, trees, railroad stations, train tracks, streets, country roads, and more. Also contains...
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£121.14
Formal Gardens in England and Scotland: Their Planning and Arrangement Architectural and Ornamental
by TRIGGS, H. INIGO
London: Batsford, 1902, 1902. First edition, Subscriber's Copy. Three folio volumes, pp. xxiv, 63; illustrated with 72 plates from drawings by the author and 53 plates from photographs by Charles Latham loose in boards as issued. ****LACKING 7 PLATES**** Lacking 7 of 125 plates (11, 12, 24, 35, 42, 94, 105), but still a far better thing to own than any reprint. Folio boards present but worn. Plates and text leaves fine. Triggs was a garden designer greatly admired by Jekyll for his advocacy and use...
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£68.65
An Introduction To The Knowledge And Practice Of Gardening
by Marshall, Charles
London: For the author by John Rider, 1796. First edition. leather_bound. Contemporary full sheep. Very good. 443, 10 (Index). 17 1/2 x 11 cm. List of Subscribers. HENREY Vol.II, p.468. "This instructive little book, written professedly for the your gardener, remained popular over a long period.....the author was the Vicar of Brixworth, a small village in Northamptonshire." Inked owner inscription title page head, "Dame Susannah Harland 1797." Contains a detailed monthly calendar for planting. Modest,...
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£282.66
Seacoast Plants of the Carolinas: For Conservation and Beautification
by Karl Graetz
Washington: U.S. Department of Agriculture. Softcover. Very Good. University of North Carolina Sea Grant Publication.
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£60.57
The White Flower Farm Garden Book
by Amos Pettingill
Litchfield: White Flower Farm, 1995. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First printing of the 1995 edition of this gardening and landscaping classic. A valuable resource.
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£40.38
American Arcadia: California and the Classical Tradition
by HOLLIDAY, PETER J
New York: Oxford, 2016 An analysis of the classical influence in California's cultural history, including examples of architecture, landscape design, and the plastic arts reflecting classical design values. First edition. 25.5 cm; 480 pp.; illustrated from photographs and drawings. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket..
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£60.57
Golf Course Developments
by JONES, REES L. & GUY L. RANDO
Washington DC: Urban Land Institute, 1974 A mid-1970’s aid to developers of golf courses and golf course-based residential communities showing varieties of existing layouts, course designs, clubhouse details, construction methods and costs, etc. Jones is a golf course architect and Rando a landscape architect. First edition. 28 cm; 105 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A very good copy or better in wrappers..
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£28.27
The Prairie Spirit in Landscape Gardening
by MILLER WILHELM
Amherst: The University of Massachusetts Press, 2002 Facsimile reprint of Miller's 1915 treatise on the prairie style of landscape gardening. Showing work by Jens Jensen, Burley Griffin, others. With Introduction by Christopher Vernon. First edition thus. 28 cm; pp. xxxiii, 34; illustrated from photographs and plans. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket..
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£24.23
Ruth Shellhorn
by KELLY COMRAS
Athesn: Univ. Georgia, 2016 A monograph on the landcape work of Ruth Shellhorn, focusing on 12 of her namy hundreds of landscape designs, including Bullok's Pasadena and Fashion Square shopping centers, Prudential Western Home Office, Disneyland, UC Riverside, others. First edition. 23 cm; 230 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A fine copy in wrappers..
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£20.19
Secret Gardens of Newport Rhode Island's Historic Point Section
by Laurie E. Sullivan
Newport: Benefactors of the Arts of Newport Rhode Island, 1994. Softcover. Near fine in wraps. Illustrated throughout.
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£20.19
Oxford College Gardens
by Rohde, Eleanour Sinclair
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth. Very good. 193 paes. 25 x 19 cm. Twenty-four illustrations in color and one black and white by Estella Canziani; and with additional illustrations. Index. Backstrip extremities nicked.
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£32.30
PLOT Volume 11: Opulence
by KING, MICHAEL et al. (eds.)
New York: NYCC, 2022 Featuring curated submissions by students, faculty, artists, and practitioners, this issue explores the theme of opulence as found on and about the campus by the second-year MLA students. First edtion. 18 cm; 142 pp.; illustrated. A fine copy in wrappers..
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£20.19
The Young Painter's Maulstick; Being A Practical Treatise On Perspective; Containing Rules And Principles For Delineation On Planes, etc.
by Malton, Thomas
London: Published for the Author, 1800. First edition. Boards. Contemporary roan covered boards, backstrip rebacked in cloth. Very good. 71 pages. 28 x 23 1/2 cm. Illustrated with drawings. COLVIN p535. "He exhibited a number of architectural drawings which he showed at London exhibitions. He never practised as an architect, but appears to have taught perspective....." Part one only without the plate volume. Library bookplate the only ex-library mark, early owner inscription. Rubbing to covers, wear to...
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£121.14
Small Gardens and Landscape Planting
by JONES, HELEN SWIFT
New York: William H. Wise & Co., 1940 Jones, who studied at the ambridge School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, was a landscape architect in private practice from 1925, working from New York City and Stamford CT until 1970. Along with journalistic contributions to the leading home periodicals of the day, she wrote this uncommon little pamphlet for Wise in 1940, with "suggestions for planning, constructing and planting which can be adapted to various garden areas..." for small...
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£40.38
Trees New York Citizen Pruner Street Tree Care Manual
by TREES NEW YORK
New York: New York City Street Tree Consortium, Inc., 2000 Textbook for the street tree pruning course sponsored by the NYC Dept. of Parks. Graduates will be licensed as Citizen Pruners. With Urban Leaf and Tree Handbook to rear pocket. Fifth edition, originally published in 1992. 28 cm; 95 pp.; illustrated. Some notes, penciling to a few pp.; else a good copy in wrappers..
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£40.38
Some English Gardens
by Jekyll, Gertrude & George S. Elgood
London: Longman's Green, 1904. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt. Teg. Very good. 131 pages. 34 x 24 cm, fifty full-page colored plates. Scarce and very collectable work by the doyen of English landscape architecture. Gertrude Jekyll concentrated her design work on applying plants in a variety of settings, woodland gardens, water gardens and herbaceous borders always striving to achieve the most natural effect. Slight rubbing to backstrip extremities.
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£282.66
Caillebotte and His Garden at Yerres
by Wittmer, Pierre
New York: Abrams, 1991. 1st American edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 321illustrations, including 170 plates in color. Preface by Bernard Lorenceau. Bibliography. Index. Presents a complete survey of Caillebotte's known works, and a detailed treatment of French garden design and practice during the latter half of the 19th century.
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£44.42
ALS to Mrs. Abbott
by Manship, Paul
Nd: Np, Sunday. Wraps. Cream paper. Fine. 4 leaves, 23 x 15 cm. Letterhead: Newport House And Cottages, Bar Harbor, Maine -- Thomas P. Jones Proprietor. an undated ALS noted "Sunday." Manship discusses his stay in Maine was to arrange an exhibition of his works, and an offer to visit Mrs. Abbott with ideas for a set of scuptures for her garden. Paul Howard Manship was an American sculptor. He consistently created mythological pieces in a classical style, and was a major force in the Art Deco movement.
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£80.76
Landscape: Editing Spatial Relations Summer/Autumn 2012
by TREML, GERHARD, et al
Vienna: Eden’s Edge, 2012 Issue 2, the Tool Issue, with articles exploring the field of landscape design with narrative tools. First edition. 26 cm; 60 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A fine copy in wrappers..
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£28.27
