Search Results: Titles starting with P from Landscape Books

1944. Good. TURNER, W. J., Editor. A Panorama of Rural England. Introduction by Edmund Blunden. New York: Chanticleer Press, 1944. 8vo, pp.315, 48 plates in color and 132 illustrations in black & white, from old prints, plans and paintings. [Contains English Country Houses by V. Sackville- West, English Gardens by Harry Roberts, English Villages by Edmund Blunden, English Cities and Small Towns, by John Betjeman, English Inns by Thomas Burke, and British Ports and Harbours by Leo Walmsley.]

1983. Very Good. OLMSTED, FREDERICK LAW. The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted: The Formative Years, 1822-1852, Vol.I, Charles Capen McLaughlin, editor. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983, Second printing. 8vo, pp.xx, 423, illustrated in halftone from old prints and photographs. Index. Dj. Vg/vg.

1977. Good. STEVENSON, ELIZABETH. Park Maker: A Life of Frederick Law Olmsted. New York: Macmillan, 1977. 8vo, pp.xxv, 484, half-tone plates, index, bibliography. Dj.

1929. Good. FOX, HELEN MORGENTHAU. Patio Gardens. New York: Macmillan, 1929. Sm. 4to, pp.xix, 228, 68 black & white drawings by Ralph L. Reaser, 2 fold-out plans. [Spanish gardens].

1886. Good. GLAZIER, CAPTAIN WILLARD. Peculiarities of American Cities. Philadelphia: Hubbard Brothers, 1886. 12mo, pp.xv, 570, frontispiece, 32 wood engraved plates. Orig. decorative cloth. Some foxing. Rear hinge starting to crack.

1923. Good. HARDING, MRS. EDWARD. Peonies in the Little Garden. The Little Garden Series, Mrs. Francis King, Gen. Ed. Boston: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1923. 8vo, pp.viii, 91. Bibliography. Nice, clean copy.

1976. Good. THOMAS, GRAHAM STUART. Perennial Garden Plants: or, The Modern Florilegium. A concise account of herbaceous plants, including bulbs, for general garden use. London: J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd., 1976, First edition. 8vo, pp.xvi, 389, illustrated with 16 color plates, 24 monochrome plates, 16 pencil drawings. Index, bibliography. Dj.

1951. Good. SLOSSON, ELVENIA. Pioneer American Gardening. New York: Coward-McCann, 1951. 8vo, pp.xiv, 306, 28 illustrations, bibliography. Dj. [Book club edition]

1983. Good. ROBINETTE, GARY O. AND RICHARD NEHRING. Planting Details. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1983. 4to, pp.251, illustrated with plans and section drawings. Dj.

1937. Good. WILDER, LOUISE BEEBE. Pleasures and Problems of a Rock Garden. Garden City: Garden City Publishing Co., 1937. Lg.8vo, pp.xii, 294, 97 half-tone plates with illus. from photographs by Harry G. Healy, introduction by Richardson Wright. Index, bibliography. Dj.

1928. Very Good. WILDER, LOUISE BEEBE. Pleasures and Problems of a Rock Garden. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1928, First edition. 4to, pp.xii, 294, 97 half-tone plates with illus. from photographs by Harry G. Healy, introduction by Richardson Wright, index, bibliography. T. e. g. Poor condition, reading copy. Ex-library, discard stamps, hinges loose, almost detached, text pages, however, in very good condition.

1887. Good. MAYNARD, S. T. The Practical Fruit Grower. Springfield, Massachusetts: The Phelps Publishing Co., 1887. The Farm and Home Library, No. 1, Oct. 1887. 12mo, pp.124 + 4pp, illus. with line cuts in the text. Index. Paper covers, stab stapled. Paper covers are torn in places and slightly stained.

1927. Good. HOTTES, ALFRED C. Practical Plant Propagation. New York: A. T. DeLa Mare Co., 1927, Second edition. 12mo, pp.210, half-tone illustrations, line drawings, charts. Extensive plant lists. Endpapers foxed. Former owner's name and address label pasted on f.f.e.p.

1984. Very Good. JOHNSON, HUGH. The Principles of Gardening: The science, practice and history of the gardener's art. London: Mitchell Beazley, (1979) 1984. 4to, pp.272, illustrated in color from photographs, drawings, maps. Gardener's directory, index, bibliography. Dj. Vg/vg.

1962. Very Good. ROBERTS, MARTHA McMILLAN. Public Gardens and Arboretums of the United States. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1962, book club edition. 4to, pp.x, 148, illustrated with color and halftone photographs by the author. Dj. Vg/good, dj edgeworn.

1953. Very Good. ORDON, JEAN. Pageant of the Rose. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1953, First Edition. 8vo, pp.232, illus. w. color and halftone plates from photographs and old prints. Index, bibliography. Dj. Vg/dust jacket edgeworn.

1921. Good. KING, MRS. FRANCIS. Pages from a Garden Notebook. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1921, First Edition. 8vo, pp.xi, 291, illus. w. 16 halftone plates from photographs, garden plan. Index. Covers spotted, spine faded. [Collection of essays on various garden topics.]

1974. Paperback. Very Good. COX, EDWARD HYDE and JOHN WILMERDING. Painting and Drawings by Fitz Hugh Lane at The Cape Ann Historical Association. Gloucester, Massachusetts: The Cape Ann Historical Association, 1974. Oblong 4to, unpaginated, 135 halftone and color plates. Index. Wraps (softbound). Edges of book block foxed, otherwise very good condition.

1995. Fine. NEVES, JOSE CASSIANO. The Palace and Gardens of Fronteira. Seventeenth & Eighteenth Century Portuguese Style. Woodbridge, England: Antique Collector's Club, 1995, Third revised edition by Vera Mendes and Fernando Mascarenhas. 4to, pp.142, illustrated in color. Notes. Dj. As new/as new.

1972. Very Good. FRENZEL, REINER. Palaces of Europe. New York: Hart Publishing Co., 1972, First American edition. Square 8vo, pp.136, illus. in color and halftone from photographs, drawings in text. Dj. Vg/fair, dj, torn on back, in mylar protective cover. Top edge slightly foxed.