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A GARDEN IN VENICE.
Original publisher’s decoratively embossed leather”Venetian” style, some scuffing to extremities, pictorial endpapers; apart from light scuffing, a very good copy.
Book ID: 16156More details Price: £200.00 -
A PHILOSOPHICAL TREATISE OF HUSBANDRY AND GARDENING: Being A New Method of Cultivating and Increasing all sorts of Trees, Shrubs, and Flowers. A Very Curious Work: Containing many Useful Secrets in Nature, for helping the Vegetation of Trees and Plants, and for fertilizing the most Stubborn Soils... Translated from The High-Dutch, with Remarks: and Adorned with Cuts. The whole Revised and Compared with the Original, together with a Preface, confirming this New Method, By RICHARD BRADLEY.
Original full calf, blind-stamped on upper and lower covers, with raised bands and gilt ruling on spine; lettering to spine faded; outer hinges partially split and spine ends worn; two old small library stamps on edges of title page.
Book ID: 14522More details Price: £1,300.00 -
BAGATELLE ET SES JARDINS.
First edition. Forestier was in charge of the restoration of the gardens at Bagatelle located in the Bois de Boulogne. The text presents a history of the Chateau and its gardens from the 18th century up to their purchase by the city of Paris in 1905, and concludes with a 12 page chapter entitled "Quelques Idées Sur Les Jardins Modernes."
Original paper wraps.
Book ID: 15782More details Price: £50.00 -
BESCHREIBUNG DES LUSTSCHLOSSES UND GARTENS SR. KÖNIGL. HOHEIT DES PRINZEN HEINRICHS, BRUDERS DES KÖNIGS, ZU REINSBERG.
Wie auch der Stadt und der Gegend um dieselbe.
Facsimile reprint of this 18th century guide book to the royal gardens at Rheinsberg located northwest of Berlin.
Original paper-covered boards.
Book ID: 15145More details Price: £12.00 -
CIVIC ART. Studies In Town Planning, Parks, Boulevards and Open Spaces.
Original cloth gilt ruled and lettered on upper cover and spine, extremities very gently worn, slight separation of cloth along 2 inches of spine edge, else a very good copy.
Book ID: 15837More details Price: £450.00 -
COUP D'OEIL SUR BELOEIL
Et Sur Une Grande Partie Des Jardins De L'Europe.
An annotated reprint, edited by Ernest de Ganay, of the enlarged second edition of 1786, with appendices incorporating additional material from the rare edition included in de Ligne's MÉLANGES MILITAIRES, LITTÉRAIRES ET SENTIMENTAIRES published in 1795. Ganay has also added his own 34 page introduction. Ganay 110.
Original printed paper wraps, well preserved; text unopened.
Book ID: 15586More details Price: £10.00 -
DAS ACHILLES-SCHLOSS AUF CORFU.
The Villa Achilleion on the island of Corfu was built for the Empress Elisabeth of Austria in 1891. The house and its gardens were designed for her by Alexander von Warsberg, the Austrian consul in Corfu and one of the leading experts of his day on the history and art of ancient Greece. Achilleion, built upon a high mount with spectacular views of the Mediterranean, became for a short while an idyllic escape for the romantic and fanciful empress. Christomanos's effusive text describing the villa is accompanied by photographs of the house, gardens, interiors and extensive collection of statuary.
Original cloth-backed, paper covered boards with photochrome illustration on upper cover, design on lower cover; a fine copy in browned glassine and lightly soiled original slipcase with printed label "Emballage zu Das Achilles-Schloss auf Corfu."
Book ID: 16382More details Price: £260.00 -
DE LA COMPOSITION DES PARCS ET JARDINS PITTORESQUES, Ouvrage Utile et Instructive Pour Les Proprietaires et Les Amateurs, et ...
Contemporary quarter leather with leather corners, marbled paper over boards, spine edges scraped, but hinges still firm, gilt tooled partially raised bands, gilt lettered pink leather title piece on spine; marbled endpapers, previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down; small tear repaired near gutter of larger plan with no loss of image.
Book ID: 16042More details Price: £780.00 -
DESCRIPTIONS DES NOUVEAUX JARDINS DE LA FRANCE.
Et De Ses Anciens Chateaux Mêlée D'Observations Sur La Vie De La Campagne Et La Composition Des Jardins.
An excellent facsimile reprint of this important pictorial record of the major picturesque gardens of France at the turn of the nineteenth century. Among the 30 properties that are illustrated here are Ermenonville, Méréville, Mortfontaine, Malmaison and Le Raincy, each represented with at least nine different views accompanied by a descriptive text in French, English and German. Laborde also provides an introductory text discussing the history of French gardens and a concluding chapter with observations on the theory of garden design. Added to this edition is a lengthy preface by Michel Baridon. Limited to 500 numbered copies.
Publisher's cloth with gilt title on cover and spine. New.
Book ID: 15107More details Price: £250.00 -
ESSAI SUR LES JARDINS. Suivi Du Plan De La Presqu'Ile Perrache, Située Au Midi De La Ville Lyon, Traitée En Jardin Pour Accompagner Le Palais Ordonné Par Sa Majesté Impériale Et Royale Dans Cet Emplacement.
Bound in older glazed boards and glazed cloth spine; inked title lettering on upper cover; some scattered foxing, mostly to upper margins.
Book ID: 15838More details Price: £500.00 -
ETCHING. "View Of The Grotto Of Pan And Fame."
Excellet condition, freshly mounted and matted, overall dimensions 45 x 53.
Book ID: 14582More details Price: £500.00 -
FIVE CHRISTMAS CARDS FROM EAST LAMBROOK MANOR.
In very good condition.
Book ID: 16399More details Price: £60.00 -
FRENCH CHATEAUX AND GARDENS IN THE XVIth CENTURY.
A Series Of Reproductions Of Contemporary Drawings Hitherto Unpublished By Jacques Androuet Du Cerceau Selected and Described With An Account Of The Artist & His Works by W.H. WARD.
Original paper covered boards printed in brown with with cream colored paper spine also printed in brown; bookseller's ticket on front past-down, original glassine; a fine copy but for small tears to the glassine.
Book ID: 15886More details Price: £195.00 -
HABITATIONS CHAMPÊTRES Recueil De Maisons, Villas, Châlets, Pavillons, Kiosques, Parcs et Jardins, Dessinées Par Victor Petit.
Original cloth backed portfolio with paper paste-downs; upper cover printed with title and author; paste-down on inner portfolio board annonces the forthcoming work by Petit, and the rear board inner paste down provides bibliographic detail of 7 different works, by Petit alone, detailing the title of each plate and how individual plates or complete sets could be ordered; portfolio scuffed and rubbed, lacking front tie, but with all letterpress intact; plates are fresh and bright with just some minor foxing at margin edges. An uncommon survival.
Book ID: 15943More details Price: £1,950.00 -
HERRN ALEXANDER BLONDS NEUERÖFNETE GÄRTNER-AKADEMIE Oder die Kunst Pracht- und Lust- Gärten samt dererselben Auszierungen und Wasserwerken wohl anzulegen mit drei- und dreissig Kupfer-Taffeln versehen / und aus dem Französischen ins Deutsche übersetzet von Franz Anton Danreitter.
Contemporary paper-covered boards, worn at extremities; spine worn, with some loss at head; text clean and tight; internally a well-preserved copy.
Book ID: 15062More details Price: £1,820.00 -
HISTOIRE GÉNÉRALE DES JARDINS. Jardins Flamands Et Lillois.
A survey history of European garden design, with particular focus on the garden history of Flanders and Lille, and the foreign influences on the development of gardens there. A substantial bibliography is included.
Original printed paper wrappers; covers darkened around borders. Ink presentation inscription on front fly leaf.
Book ID: 16343More details Price: £75.00 -
JARDINS. Carnet de plans et de dessins.
Original paper wraps with title printed on upper cover, illustration or design on upper and lower covers; covers darkened and soiled; final few pages lightly soiled at margins.
Book ID: 16158More details Price: £375.00 -
JARDINS FRANÇAIS CRÉES A LA RENAISSANCE.
First edition. A useful compilation of illustrations from early engravings, plans, drawings and contemporary photographs of important French gardens from the 15th through the early 17th centuries. Multiple views of Blois, Chenonceaux, Chambord, Fontainebleau, Anet, Vallery, Monceaux-Les-Meaux, Rosny, Saint-Germain-En-Laye and Richelieu are included accompanied by a short descriptive text.
Original printed paper covers; in glassine; fine.
Book ID: 14904More details Price: £50.00 -
L'HOMME ET LE JARDIN.
First edition. Vera was a central figure in the development of modernist garden design in France. The present work is a history of gardens - particularly French gardens - from the Middle Ages to the present, with a particular interest in the moral and intellectual background for the gardens of each period. Concluding chapters express Vera's idealistic vision of gardens in post-war France.
Original wraps; paper browning (as usual), tiny hole in front wrapper.
Book ID: 15570More details Price: £65.00 -
LA POESIA DEI GIARDINI.
Per Una Semantica Degli Stili Dei Giardini E Dei Parchi. Il Giardino Come Testo.
Italian translation of the second edition, first published in Russian under the title: POEZIIA SADOV: SEMANTIKE SADOVO-PARKOVYKH STILEI: SAD KAK TEKST.
Orignal cloth in dust jacket.
Book ID: 14738More details Price: £35.00