Beautifying Country Homes. A Handbook of Landscape Gardening. Illustrated by Plans of Places Already Improved.
by WEIDENMANN, JACOB
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- Hardcover
- first
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Piermont, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Orange Judd and Company, (1870). The Swiss-born landscape architect emigrated to the Unites States in 1859, settling in Hartford. This, his first book, "...documents his major commissions...and contains the best surviving evidence of his technical skill in site engineering as well as his taste in landscape design" ("Pioneers of American Landscape Design") Forty pages of illustrated text discussing technique are followed by twenty-four illustrated plans of work in Hartford and the Northeast. First edition. Folio (35 x 27 cm); 40 pp.; 84 text cuts and 24 colored lithographic plates. Rubbing and wear to backstrip and extremities; bookplate and owners ink stamp to front pastedown; plates bright and clean. A good copy in original gilt-stamped maroon publishers cloth. . First Edition.
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- Bookseller
- Trevian Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 011523
- Title
- Beautifying Country Homes. A Handbook of Landscape Gardening. Illustrated by Plans of Places Already Improved.
- Author
- WEIDENMANN, JACOB
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- New York: Orange Judd and Company, (1870).
- Keywords
- American Landscape Architecture
- Bookseller catalogs
- Landscape Architecture;
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