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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,… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: R. Blamire, 1792. Third edition. leather_bound. Contemporary gilt decorated brown calf. Aeg. Very good. 2 Vols. 238, 264 (xiv). 22.5 x 14 cm. Thirty aquatint plates. Errata. RUSSEL p.55. "Gilpin is more closely identified with the picturesque movement than some of the greater artists and deeper thinkers." Contents generally clean, owner signature free endpaper of Vol.I &… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: R. Blamire, 1791. First edition. leather_bound. Contemporary brown tree calf, marbled endpapers, raised bands spines richly gilt in floral arabesques. Near fine. Three vols. in two. 22 x 14.5. [*4, A-Y8, **2] & [*1, B-U8, X4, b8, c2]. Double page map and 31 tinted aquatints or soft ground etchings. The plates for this work were divided between… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Wiley & Putnam, 1846. Hardcover. Orig. publisher's, forest green cloth. Very good. 594 pages. 20 x 12.4 cm. More than 210 text illustrations. Extensive Index to the Different Fruits. General Index. Abbreviations and Books Quoted.Downing notes, "there are more peaches exposed in the markets of New York, annually, than are raised in all of France;" a… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Orange Judd Agricultural Book Publishers, 1865. Seventh Edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth front cover and spine decorted in gilt. Near fube. 576 pages. 23 x 15.5 cm. Enlarged, Revised and Newly Illustrated. With a Supplement by Henry Winthrop Sargent Frontispiece, Host of full page and smaller wood engraved illustrations. Downing is widely considered the be the… Saber más sobre este artículo

Paris: Ch. Massin & Cie, 1921. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. three quarter black cloth with ties and green boards lettered in gilt with front cover pictorial inlays. Near fine. 2 Vols. 23 pages. 44.5 x 32 cm. Title page printed in red and black. 44 collotype plates printed from photographs. Among the fine gardens here presented are those… Saber más sobre este artículo

Paris: D-A. Longuet, 1913. First Edition. Folio, 39 x 29 cm. 104 Plates. 393 Reproductions d'après des estampes anciennes et des documents originaux inédits. Text in French. Each plate contains Chateau or physical property for gardens described. Black and white plates. The author was a Convservateur for the National Archives.

London: T.N. Longman And O.Rees, 1804. First edition. Hardcover. Half tan modern antique niger, original marbled sides, spine gilt with morocco lettering-piece gilt, bound by W. Forth with contemporary binders' ticket. Near fine. 124 pages. Folio, 43.5 x 27.5 cm. Hand-colored engraved vignette on title-page, 31 engraved and aquatint plates on 30 sheets, 3 of which folding, and 14 mostly… Saber más sobre este artículo

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… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Calaway Editions, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. illustrated boards. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 144 pages. 35 x 27.5 cm. Located outside Atlanta,Georgia and noted as the largest public garden in the world,also contains the largest azalea garden in existence. The gardens span fourteen thousand acres housing a butterfly center and a horticultural center and vegetable… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Rizzoli, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. mauve cloth decorated in blind. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 225 pages. 29 x 23.5 cm. Profusely illustrated with color plates printed on high gloss stock. List of Public Gardens represented. Public Garden Source List. Index.

New York: William Wood & Co, 1867. Hardcover. Orig. dark green cloth backstrip lettered in gilt. Very good. 511 pages. 20.5 x 13.5 cm. This expanded edition with 408 illustrations is newly arranged and rewritten based on Downing's (Fruits and Fruit Trees of America) first edition which appeared after the first edition of this title. General Index and… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: T. Bensley for J. Taylor, 1803. First edition. leather_bound. Modern, sympathetic full brown calf and marbled boards. AEG. Fine. 222 [2] pages. 35 x 29.5. Stipple engraved portrait of Repton, twenty-seven engraved plates [12 hand-colored, 3 tinted, 12 with overslips, one colored folding and one double page]. Numerous engraved aquatint vignettes, one hand-colored, two with overslips. After… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Henry Colburn, 1827. New Edition. Hardcover. Quarter brown calf and dark salmon boards. Very good. 136 pages. 19 x 11.5 cm. Six colored aquatint plates, one a large foldout. HENREY Vol.II, p.583. "No author's name appears on the title page......in the later editions the author signed her name and address" (rear of book). ABBEY LIFE p.13. Wide… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1827. First edition. Boards. Orig. publisher thick gray boards with illustrated front cover paper label. later cloth backstrip. Very good. 28 pages in text. 32 x 25 cm. Twelve full-page lithographed plates with descriptive text -- "designs for a summer house and gardener's residence, a garden cottage, a gate lodge. a… Saber más sobre este artículo

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… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Country Life, 1959. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth rubbed at backstrip extremities. Very good. Farleigh, John. 193 pages. 25 x 19 cm.Twelve color plates by John Farleigh, with additional drawings by him in the text. Index. Edges spotted.

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,… Saber más sobre este artículo

Paris: A. Vincent, 1926. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. marbled board portfolio with lettering in gilt, red cloth spine and cloth ties. Near fine. 2 vols. Large folio, approx. 18 x 14", total of 124 black and white plates, twenty plans, and 160 views of villas from various regions of Spain. 20 pages of introductory text and explanatory notes.… Saber más sobre este artículo

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… Saber más sobre este artículo