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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 scuptures for her garden. Paul Howard Manship was an American sculptor. He consistently created mythological pieces in a classical style, and was a major force in the Art Deco movement.
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The American Gardener; Or, A Treatise; On the Situation, Soil, Fencing and Laying-Out of Gardens; on the Making and Managing of Hot-Beds and Green-Houses; and on the Propagation and Cultivation of the several sorts of Vegetables, Herbs, Fruits and Flowers
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London: C. Clement, 1821. Stereotype edition. leather_bound. Modern full brown crushed morocco. Fine. Unpaginated. 19 x 12 cm. Four copperplate engravings. The author, also known under the pen name of Peter Porcupine, (as a controversial political pamphleteer) lived in the United States at the end of the 18th century before returning to England. Index. SABIN 13871. Light text toning, elegant binding -- raised bands, spine panel gilt in floral motif, double gilt border fillets.
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The American Fruit Culturist, Containing Practical Directions For The Propagation And Culture Of Fruit Trees In The Nursery, Orchard, And Garden
by Thomas, John T.
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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 Glossary. Scattered foxing throughout, beveled edges, nicks to backstrip head and foot, tight binding.
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Art De Construire Et De Gouverner Les Serres
by Neumann, Louis
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Paris: Audot, 1844. First edition. Boards. Later marbled boards with brown leather spine label printed in gilt. Fine. 104 pages in text. 18.5 x 22.5 cm. Twenty-one lithographic plates, one a large foldout (Greenhouse of the Botanical Garden at the University of Louvain), and containing eighty-eight individual illustrations of plats and greenhouses (design details of interior and exterior views). Some drawings to scale. Text covers construction of an orangerie, warm and cold weather greenhouses. The author was Chief gardener of the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. Lovely copy, slight text age-toning, original wrappers bound-in, marbled endpapers, a few plates with toning at fore-edge not affecting images. OCLC lists three copies only. Text in French.
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Barry's Fruit Garden; New Edition Revised And Brought Down To Date, By The Author
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New York: Orange Judd, 1890. Hardcover. Orig. dark salmon cloth, gilt front cover design bright. Very good. 516 pages. 18.5 x 13 cm. Illustrated with 190 text figures. Two indices: General Index & Index To The Different Fruits. Fruit descriptions note State origins of the various fruits. Very firm fresh copy, interior bright and clean. beveled edges.
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Caillebotte and His Garden at Yerres
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New York: Abrams, 1991. 1st American edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 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.
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Country Life: A Handbook of Agriculture, Horticulture, and Landscape Gardening
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Boston: John P. Jewett, 1859. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown textured cloth, cover panels in blind. Near fine. 813 pages. 22 x 15 cm. Nearly 150 plates: Double-page lithograph frontispiece; woodcut plates and in-text illustrations. KARPEL B526. "Robert Morris Copeland was one of that remarkable generation of landscaped architects which included F.L. Olmsted, H.W.S. Cleveland, and Charles Eliot. Copeland's treatises were popular and widely read and may be considered as the logical and worthy successor to Downing's, `A Treatise on The Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening, etc.' The book contains much information on ornamental gardening." Owner inscription free front endpaper dated 1859. The lithograph frontispiece is a plan for laying out a country place of 60 acres; with chapters on orchards, farms, gardens, greenhouses, etc. A remarkably clean, fresh copy, no foxing, only fault, slight nicks to backstrip head and foot. Gilt backstrip lettering reasonably bright.
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Edwards's Botanical Register: Or, Ornamental Flower-Garden And Shrubbery: Consisting Of Coloured Figures Of Plants And Shrubs Cultivated in British Gardens; Accompanied By Their History, Best Method of Treatment in Cultivation, Propagation, &c; Edited by John Lindley. Vols. 1-10
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London: James Ridgeway And Sons, 1842. New Series. Hardcover. Orig. publisher's green cloth. Very good. 10 vols. 26 x 17 cm. Total of 688 hand-colored engraved botanical plates with tissue guards, lacking 26 plates. The young Edwards made some drawings from the plates in the "Flora londinensis" which eventually caught the eye of Curtis who was sufficiently impressed with the work to arrange for Edwards to come to London for further training and instruction. Eventually he made many hundreds of drawings for "The Botanical Magazine," and severed his connection to Curtis only when he started his rival periodical in 1815 described here [see: HENREY, Vol. II, p.306]. NISSEN 2739. Plates very fresh and clean, descriptive data rear of each volume partly unopened, covers decorated in blind, backstrips lettered and decorated in gilt. minimal shelf wear. Glasgow booksellers' label. Vol I lacks [5,22,29,32-33,38,49,58,65]. Vol.2 [13]. Vol. 3 [2,46,50,56]. Vol.5 [37]. Vol.6 [1,42,53,58]. Vol.7 [37.52.67]. Vol.9…
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The Floral Art Old Japan: Being A Second And Revised Edition Of The Flowers Of Japan And The Art Of Floral Arrangement.; With Illustrations By Japanese Artists
by Conder, Josiah H.
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Tokio: Printed By The Shiuyei Sha & Published By Kelly and Walsh, 1899. Second edition. Hardcover. Orig. publisher's green cloth lettered and illustrated in gilt. Very good. 142 text pages [Appendix VIII]. Half title, 72 black and white plates, 39 text illustrations, and 14 full page color lithographs with lettered tissue guards. With K. Ogawa he published Landscape Gardening In Japan in 1893, also served as an architect, and taught at the Imperial College of Engineering, and designed western style buildings. This second edition was the first in English on ikebana. Ex-library, contents clean, fresh with interior unmarked with ex-library marks. Extremities rubbed, beveled edges.
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Formal Gardens in England and Scotland; Their Planning And Arrangement Architectural and Ornamental Features
by Triggs, H. Inigo
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London: B.T. Batsford, 1902. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. decorated boards. Very good. 3 Vols. XXIV, 63, (1). Folio, 43 x 33 cm. Illustrated by seventy-two plates from drawings by the Author and Fifty-three by Charles Latham, collotypes from photographs. Title page printed in red and black, interior contents clean. Six page Subscriber's List. Many full page plates with drawings to scale. Backstrips reinforced.
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The Gardeners Kalendar, Directing what Works are necessary to be done Every Month In the Kitchen, Fruit and Pleasure-Gardens, and in the Conservatory and Nursery, etc..
by Miller, Philip
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London: John and Francis Rivington, 1748. Eighth edition. leather_bound. Modern full brown calf. Fine. 343 & [9 page index]. 20 x 13 cm. Engraved allegorical frontispiece by John Pine, an accomplished engraver and friend of Hogarth. First published, 1731. The author was Gardener of the Chelsea physic garden of the Society of Apothecaries, and this work, his most popular [see: HENREY, Vol.II, p.221]. Raised bands, leather spine label printed in gilt, text clean.
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Gardens of the Riviera
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New York: Rizzoli, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth. Fine in near fine dust wrapper. 160 pages. 29 x 24 cm. Profusely illustrated mostly in color. Presents botanical, contemporary and various garden styles, plus gardens open to the public. Index. Bibliography.
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The Gentleman Farmer: Being An Attempt To Improve Agriculture, By Subjecting It To The Test Of Rational Principles
by Home, Henry [Lord Kames]
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Edinburgh: Bell & Bradfute, 1802. Fifth Edition. Hardcover. XXXI, 438 pages. 21.5 x 14 cm. Frontispiece of Lord Kames and three plates. One page of adverts. HENREY Vol.II, p. 620. "Apart from his legal and literary activities he also found time and energy to devote to agriculture. He took in hand the improvement of Kames, the family estate in Berwickshire......" Interior clean, front cover hinge reinforced, early owner signature dated 1842, book label, joint wear, boards rubbed. Contemporary calf and marbled boards. Very good.
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Great Gardens Of The Western World; Introduction by Harold Nicolson
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New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth. Fine in faded and nicked dust wrapper. 299 pages. 32 x 25.5 cm. Forty color pates, 350 in monochrome, plus documentary drawings and engravings to show how they appeared in previous centuries. Formal gardens in Europe and America are presented.
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An Illustrated Manual of California Shrubs
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SanFrancisco: J.W. Stacey, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth decorated and lettered in gilt. Near fine. 699 pages. Nearly 800 ilustrations in the text. With a chapter on the use of california shrubs in garden design by Fred H.Schumacher. Bibliography. Index.
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An Introduction To Botany. Containing An Explanation Of The Theory of that Science; Extracted From The Work of Dr. Linnaeus; With Twelve Copper-Plate, Two Explanatory Tables, An Appendix, And Glossary
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London: J.F. and C. Rivington et al., 1776. Third edition, corrected, with large additions. leather_bound. Contemporary full brown calf, raised bands, red leather spine label printed in gilt. Very good. 432 pages. 21 x 13.5 cm. HENREY Vol. II. p.355. " In 1760 (first edition).....It is the first work in English to present botanists with Linnaeus's sexual system of classification and with his terminology, based on his own writings, and it did much to promote the knowledge, and extend the progress and popularity, of the system in this country." It also gave Lee and his "Vineyard" nursery acclaim and notoriety. Clean copy, book label, front cover hinge reinforced.
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An Introduction To The Knowledge And Practice Of Gardening
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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 owner inscription title page head, "Dame Susannah Harland 1797." Contains a detailed monthly calendar for planting. Modest, scattered text age-toning, corner wear, backstrip extremities chipped with slight loss.
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La Theorie Et La Pratique Du Jardinage, Ou L'On Traite A Fond Des Beaux Jardins apelles communement Les Jardins De Plaisance Et De Proprete, etc......
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Paris: Jean Mariette, 1713. New Edition. leather_bound. Contemporary full French calf. Very good. 293 [1] [XII] pages. 25.5 x 19.5 cm. 38 engraved plates by Mariette and C. Lucas after Dezailler and Alexandre Le Blond, including 29 double-page and 9 folding, mostly mounted on guards. Enlarged second edition of the important French treatise on garden design, first published 1709. This edition contains a new preface and six new engravings. the book was originally published under the author's initials alone, and was later also published under the name of its illustrator, Le Blond. BERLIN KAT. 3463. FOWLER 170. "This book, in which the methods of the great Le Notre (1513-1700) were reduced to a system, remains to this day the standard authority on the formal garden. It was written by D'Argenville the elder, under the instructions and supervision of the architect, J.B. Alexandre Le Blond...." HUNT 421. Engraved bookplate, Safstaholm, Bibliothek, contents clean, raised bands, spine panels richly gilt,…
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The Ladies' Flower-Garden Of Ornamental Greenhouse Plants
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London: William S. Orr & Co, 1849. Second edition. Hardcover. Three quarter green morocco and green cloth. Teg. Very good. 215 pages. 30 x 25 cm. Forty-two lithographic plates printed in colors and finished by hand, tissue guards. With no entry level manuals for gardening available in her day, she pioneered gardening as a suitable occupation for women. Her husband -- John C. Loudon, a prolific horticultural and landscape design writer founded the "Gardener's Magazine," the first periodical devoted solely to horticulture -- influenced her as did John Lindley, whose lectures she attended. Prior to her marriage her fiction writing, "The Mummy," an early science fiction novel, adumbrated perhaps by Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein," and published anonymously in 1827 by Henry Colburn, received favorable reviews. NISSEN 1236 [1848 edition]. Plates generally clean, a few minor age spots to first few plates at upper margins not affecting images, raised bands, gilt decorated spine panels, joints and extremities rubbed.
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The Manner Of Raising, Ordering, and Improving Forest-Trees: With Directions how to Plant, Make, and Keep Woods, Walks, Avenues, Lawns, Hedges, &c
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London: Eliz. Bell, John Darby, Arthur Bettesworth, et al., 1724. Third Edition Corrected. leather-bound. Contemporary cambridge style full morocco with rectangular cover panels decorated in blind, modern reback with raised bands and red leather spine label printed in gilt. Near fine. 273 [3] pages. 19.5 x 12 cm. Copper engraved frontispiece, four copper engraved folding plates at rear -- illustrations for avenues, walks and lawns. First published 1676. the author was gardener to the Earl of Essex. Also included are "Rules and Tables shewing how the Ingenious Planter may measure superficial Figures divide Woods or Land, and measure Timber and other solid Bodies, either by Arithmetick or Geometry: With the Uses of that excellent Line, the "Line of Numbers," by several new Examples and many other rules, useful for most Men." Modest, scattered toning, armorial bookplate.
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