Search Results: Titles starting with A from Landscape Books

1937. Good. EVELYN, JOHN. Acetaria: A Discourse of Sallets. Brooklyn: Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 1937. 8vo, pp.148, frontispiece, one fold-out table. Index. [This edition being a faithful reprint of the 1699 First edition]. Orig. cloth, leather spine label. Spine faded, sections of covers faded, lower corner of fold-out table is browned and chipped.

1976. Good. LEIGHTON, ANN. American Gardens in the Eighteenth Century: "For Use or For Delight". Boston: Houghton-Mifflin Co., 1976. 8vo, pp.xxi, 514, illustrated in half-tone from old prints. Plant list, bibliography, index. Dj. Slightly scuffed dust jacket. [Out-of-Print in hardcover]

1925. Good. WILSON, E. H. America's Greatest Garden: The Arnold Arboretum. Boston: The Stratford Co., 1925. 8vo, pp.ii, 118, 51 half-tone photo. plates. A few spots on covers.

1965. Very Good. BUSH-BROWN, JAMES AND LOUISE BUSH-BROWN. America's Garden Book. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1965. Wide 8vo, pp.xiii, 752, illustrated with half-tone photos, line drawings. Index. Dj. [Very useful and comprehensive reference book.] Vg/vg, former owner's name in ink on f.f.e.p., dust jacket slightly edgeworn.

1925. Good. WILSON, E. H. America's Greatest Garden: The Arnold Arboretum. Boston: The Stratford Co., 1925. 8vo, pp.ii, 118, illustrated with 51 half-tone photographic plates. Spine slightly faded, tiny nick on rear edge of spine.

1927. Very Good. QUACKENBUSH, ALICE T. A. Annuals of Flowerland. New York: Macmillan, 1927. 8vo, pp.vi, 166. Index. Cloth spine, decorative paper covered boards, paper label on spine and on front cover. No dust jacket. Vg.

1915. Good. MULLGARDT, LOUIS CHRISTIAN. The Architecture and Landscape Gardening of the Exposition, A Pictorial Survey of the Most Beautiful of the Architectural Compositions of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, described by Maud Wotring Raymond and others. San Francisco: Paul Elder and Co., 1915. 8vo, pp.x, 202, 96 plates from photographs tipped in. Very nice copy

2001. Fine. BAINBRIDGE, BERYL. According To Queeney. London: Little, Brown & Co., 2001. 8vo, pp.242. Pictorial endpaper, ribbon book marker bound in. Dj. Fine/vg+.

1990. Fine. DANA, MRS. WILLIAM STARR. According To Season. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1990. 12mo, pp.xii, 175, illus. w. sixteen plates in color from paintings by Elsie Louise Shaw. Gilt dec. cloth from a design by Margaret Armstrong. Introduction to this edition by Frances Tenenbaum. In a pictorial Box. [This reprint edition is based on the 1902 enlarged, illustrated edition published by Charles Scribner's Sons. Sixteen of the original thirty-one color plates have been included. The Margaret Armstrong design on the binding is not the one original to the edition.] Published @ $21.95. AS NEW.

1927. Good. WILDER, LOUISE BEEBE. Adventures in My Garden and Rock Garden. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1927. 8vo, pp.xii, 355, illustrated with color plates from paintings and halftones from photographs. Index. Pictorial front cover, gilt lettering.

1998. Paperback. Good. LLOYD, CHRISTOPHER. The Adventurous Gardener. New York: The Lyons Press, 1998. A Horticulture Garden Classic. Foreword by Charles Elliott. 8vo, pp.248, illus. with halftone plates from photographs, garden plans. Index. Wraps, NEW. [In print @ $16.95.]

1959. Very Good. THARP, LOUISE HALL. Adventurous Alliance: The Story of The Agassiz Family of Boston. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1959, First edition. 8vo, pp.xiii, 354, illustrated with halftone plates. Index, chapter notes. Dj. Vg/vg, name in ink on ffep.

1937. Very Good. [CHILDREN'S GARDENING] KAINS, M. G. Adventures in Gardening for Boys and Girls. New York: Greenberg Publisher, 1937. 8vo, pp.viii, 280, illustrated with line drawings in the text. Index. Dj. Edges and endpapers lightly foxed, dj slightly edgeworn, otherwise very good.

2000. Paperback. Good. DONNELLY, RUAH. The Adventurous Gardener. Where to buy the best plants in New England. Jaffrey, NH: The Horticultural Press, 2000. 8vo, pp.299, illus. in the text from line cuts from old nursery catalogues, maps. Alphabetical index, and index by plant categories. Wraps, NEW. [A book worth pouring over. Mine is heavily flagged and marked. Filled with excellent and lesser- known nurseries. Keep a copy in your car!]

1932. Paperback. Very Good. [SEED CATALOGUE] F. & F. NURSERIES. After Fifty Years: 1882 - 1932. Springfield, New Jersey: F. & F. Nurseries, 1932. 8vo, pp.215, illus. in halftone from photographs. Wraps. Very good, slight browning at edges, slight rubbing at spine edges and ends.

1969. Paperback. Good. CLARK, LYNN G. and RICHARD W. POHL. Agnes Chase's First Book of Grasses. The Structure of Grasses Explained for Beginners. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1969, Fourth edition. (First edition was published in 1922). 8vo, pp.xxii, 127, illustrated with line drawings. Index, glossary, bibliography. Wraps, NEW.

1988. Paperback. Good. MEINE, CURT. Aldo Leopold: His Life and Work. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1988. 8vo, pp.xv, 638, illus. in halftone from photographs. Index, bibliography, notes. Wraps, NEW.

1974. Very Good. HECKSCHER, AUGUST. Alive in the City: Memoir of an Ex-Commissioner. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1974, 1st ed. 8vo, pp.viii, 294, illus. w. halftones from photos. Map on endpapers. Index. Dj. [Memoir of Heckscher's term as New York City Parks Commissioner, 1967-73.] Vg/vg, dj price clipped, very slight edge-wear.

1987. Good. HARRIS, ANN. All About Color: A Workshop Book For Young People. South Orange, NJ: Ann Harris, 1987, Second edition. 4to, pp.35, illustrated with diagrams, celluloid envelope of color squares, to be used in the workbook, on the inside of rear cover. Spiral bound. Inscription to the former owner from the author on the title page.

1994. Good. STILGOE, JOHN R. Alongshore. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994. Square 4to, pp.x, 443, illus. in halftone from photographs, old prints, and charts. Index, bibliography. Dj, NEW.