New York: Leavitt & Allen, 1854. Hardcover. 557 pages. 23 x 15 cm. Engraved frontis., seven plates, plus text illustrations [wood engravings]. Downing's essays are a collection of his editorials from the periodical, THE HORTICULTURIST, between 1845 and 1852. The sixteen essays on Landscape gardening are a valuable supplement to..... More
New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1841. First edition. Hardcover. 451 pages. 24 x 15.5 cm. Frontispiece, 69 plus 19 wood engraved illustrations. Downing is widely considered the be the greatest single figure in American horticulture, later influencing the work of Frederick Law Olmstead and Calvert Vaux. Downing’s book is additionally..... More
London: C. Hitch and L. Hawes, et al, 1762. Second edition, corrected and improved. leather_bound. 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..... More
Paris: Didot Fils, 1786. leather_bound. 168 pp. 8vo, eighteen folded copper plates. The first part was originally published 1746, the conclusions in the second part apparently published later, ca.1760. A perspective and drawing manual, the first fourteen plates illustrate architectural shades and shadows; the remaining four illustrate military architecture and..... More
Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1936. First edition. Hardcover. 221 pages. 26 x 20 cm. Ninety-four black and white illustrations. Bibliography. Index. Annotated List of Buildings Mentioned in the Text. Edited by Bremer Whidden Pond. Von Erdberg sums up, "The eighteenth century covered many pages with the pros and cons of..... More
Albany: D. & S. Whiting, 1803. leather_bound. 280 pages. 21.5 x 13 cm. 13 fold-out plates. First published, 1802. An introduction and notes by William Cobbett for the climates and season of the USA. SABIN 25155. Scattered toning throughout, owner notes on endapers. More
Paris: A. Vincent, 1926. First edition. Hardcover. 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. Vol.I presents the Arab gardens at Alcazar, Alhambra, etc. Vol.II..... More
Paris: A. Vincent, 1922. First edition. Hardcover. Large folio, approx. 18 x 14", total of 148 black and white plates, twenty five plans, and 170 views of villas from various Italian regions. Introductory text and explanatory notes. Presents representative data for a host of prominent Italian gardens during the period..... More
Tours: Maison Alfred Mame, (1937). First edition. Hardcover. 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. More
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1827. First edition. Boards. 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 dairy and gamekeepers residence....a small residence, an orangery..... More
New York: Abrams, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. 344 pages. 231 illustrations, including eighteen color plates. Bibliography. Index. Glossary. Steele's work is an essential link between19th Beaux Arts formalism and modern landscape design. The first critical biography of Steele, tracing the development of fifty of his gardens. More
New York: Walton W. Rawls, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. 292 pp. 4to, 216 illustrations in color and black and white and all, elegantly printed in Japan on quality stock. Index. Errata slip.Introduction by Alan Priest. Notable are the surprising number of houses and gardens in the last part of the..... More
Leipzig: J.J. Weber, 1910. Second edition. Hardcover. 254 pages. 25 x 18 cm, 213 text illustrations -- drawings, photographs and town design layouts; and thirteen mounted color plates, some double-paged of landscape designs. Fresh, bright copy. More
London: Published for the Author, 1800. First edition. Boards. 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..... More
London: For the author by John Rider, 1796. First edition. leather_bound. 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..... More
SanFrancisco: J.W. Stacey, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. 699 pages. 4to, nearly 800 ilustrations in the text. With a chapter on the use of california shrubs in garden design by Fred H.Schumacher. Bibliography. Index. More
London: John and James Rivington, 1754. Tenth edition. leather_bound. 8vo, 336 pages in text, plus xii. Engraved frontis. First issued October 1731, with allegorical frontispiece by John Pine, an accomplished engraver and friend of Hogarth. The author was Gardener of the Chelsea physic garden of the Society of Apothecaries, and..... More
Paris: A. Vincent, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. Large folio, approx. 18 x 14", total of 132 black and white plates, and with a Preface by M. Carvallo. A representative sampling of some prominent French gardens -- Versailles, Vau-Le-Comte, Chantilly, Wideville, Ognon, Saint-Cloud, et al. Ex-library, plates with small library stamp..... More
New York: McGraw Hill, 1973. First editions. Hardcover. Folios, 33 x 25 1/2 cm. A monumental undertaking, copiously illustrated in color and black and white. Index. A lavish production under the auspices of the New York Botanical Garden, this complete set covers all the wild flowers of the United States..... More
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. 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. More
London: Country Life, 1959. Farleigh, John. First edition. Hardcover. 193 pages. 25 x 19 cm.Twelve color plates by John Farleigh, with additional drawings by him in the text. Index. Edges spotted. More
New York: Abrams, 1991. 1st American edition. Hardcover. 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. More