Roadside Development
NY: Macmillan, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. 265 pages. 20 x 14 cm. Seventy-six plates: photographs, plus text drawings. Bibliography. Index. Edited by Richard T. Ely. Contains a chapter on New York Parkway Law. More
Landscape Architecture
The Pergola
Chicago & New York: Hartmann-Sanders Company, 1924. Original Wraps. 64 pages. 27.5 x 20 cm. Album No. 34, a series of designs for Garden Houses and other architectural features, all round columns made by Koll's Patent Lock Joint Wood Columns, "built with due regard to the architectural proportions." Host of... More
Rural Essays. Edited With A Memoir Of The Author, By George William Curtis, and a Letter To His Friends by Fredericka Bremer
NY: 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 his... More
A Practical Treatise Of Husbandry: Wherein are contained, may 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
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
La Science Des Ombres, Par Rapport Au Dessin. Ouverage necessaire a ceux quiveulent dessiner l'Architecture civile....
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
Japanese Gardens for Today
Rutland: Charles E. Tuttle, 1959. First edition. Hardcover. 270 pp. Profusely illustrated with seventeen color plates, 279 black and white plates and seventy figures in the text. Foreword by Richard Neutra. Bibliography. Index. This book presents a practical explanation of how the basic rules of Japanese garden design and care... More
Chinese Influence On European Garden Structures
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
A Treatise On the Culture And Management Of Fruit Trees; In Which A New Method Of Pruning And Training Is Fully Described, Together With Observations On Diseases, Defects And Injuries, In All Kinds Of Fruit And Forest Trees; etc....
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
Jardins D'Espagne
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
Jardins D'Italie
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
Architettura Campestre
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
Fletcher Steele Landscape Architect An Account of the Gardenmaker's Life 1885-1971
NY: Abrams, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. 344 pp. 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
Magazijn van tuin-sieraden, of Verzameling van modellen van aanleg en sieraad, voor groote en kleine lusthoven, voornamelijk van dezulke die, met weinig kosten, te maken zijn : getrokken uit de voornaamste buitenlandsche werken, naar de gelegenheid en gronden van dit koningrijk gewijzigd en met vele platte gronden en sieraden vermeerderd
Zalt-Bommel: Johannes Noman en Zoon, 1831. Second edition. Hardcover. [IV, VIII,]100 pages. 28 x 22.5 cm. A charming Dutch work on garden design, whose title translates loosely as "A Repository of Garden Ornaments; or Collection of Models of Construction and Ornament, for Large and Small Pleasure Gardens, Chiefly such as... More
The Japanese Influence In America
NY: 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 19th... More
Land-Und Gartensiedelungen
Leipzig: J.J. Weber, 1910. Second edition. Hardcover. 254 pp. 8vo, 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
The Young Painter's Maulstick; Being A Practical Treatise On Perspective; Containing Rules And Principles For Delineation On Planes, etc.
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
An Introduction To The Knowledge And Practice Of Gardening
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
Civic Art Studies In Town Planning Parks Boulevards And Open Spaces
London & NY: B.T. Batsford & Chas. Scribner's Sons, 1911. First edition. Hardcover. 376 pages. Folio, 37 x 25.5 cm. Nearly 275 illustrations -- photographs, plans to scale, maps, elevations with some plates in color. The author notes he began this work as a landscape architecture project, but soon discovered... More
An Illustrated Manual of California Shrubs
SanFrancisco: J.W. Stacey, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. 699 pp. 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
The Gardener's Kalendar; Directing what Works are necessary to be done Every Month InThe Kitchen, Fruit, and Pleasure Gardens
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
English Pleasure Gardens
NY: Macmillan, 1902. First edition. Hardcover. 324 pages. 23 x 17 cm. Profusely illustrated in black and white with eleven plans to scale, sixty-eight full page plates and one hundred and eighty-five illustrations in the text. Bibliography. Index. POWELL 4970. Owner inscription free endpaper. More
Jardins De France
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
Wild Flowers of The United States: Complete Set -- New England States (two parts), Southeastern States (two parts), Texas (two parts), Southwestern States (three parts), North Western States (two parts, Central Mountains & Plains (three parts) -- Vols. 1-VI
NY: 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. Well... More
Oxford College Gardens
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
Old Fashioned Flowers
London: Country Life, 1959. Farleigh, John. First edition. Hardcover. 193 pp. 8vo, twelve color plates by John Farleigh, with additional drawings by him in the text. Index. Edges spotted. More