A Country Garden
New York: Macmillan, 1936, 1936. First American edition, from the English sheets. 8vo; 226 pp.; illustrated from engravings by John Farleigh. Some fading to original green cloth; edge worn dust jacket. horticulture gardening.
Gardening and Horticulture
Foundation and Home Ground Planting Made Easy: For Do-It-Yourself Gardeners
Dansville: Kelly Bros. Nurseries, 1956. Aul, garden writer for the Herald Tribune, writes the manual with suggestions for different types of houses including the split level and ranch, as well as other suggestions and instructions for the “home ground.” Includes a large scale grid sheet, a sheet of planning cutouts.....
The Standard Cyclopedia of Horitculture
New York: Macmillan, 1945, 1945. Later printing. Three volumes. 4to; 3839 pp.; illustrated. A bright, clean set in chipped dust jackets, in a used slipcase. Along with "Hortus", Bailey's most enduring work, and still one of the best horticultural references ever published. With a complete list of American horticultural books.....
North American Horticulture: A Reference Guide
Farmington Hills, Michigan, U.S.A. Macmillan Library Reference, 1992. 2ND EDITION REVISED EXPANDED. FINE COPY IN FINE DUST JACKET.
Jardins de Touraine
Tours: Arrault & Cie., (1947). Later printing. 4to; 362 pp.; illustrated from photographs and drawings. A very good copy in gilt-stamped green cloth. A survey of the gardens in the Touraine province of France. Originally published in 1940. Photographer Jerome Zerbe's copy.
shaping the American Landscape: New Profiles from the Pioneers of American Landscape Design Project
Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, (2009). First edition. 4to; illustrated. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
Patrick Blanc: Vertical Garden
Busan: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2018. A documentation of the creation and installation of Blanc’s Vertical Garden as the Inaugural Exhibition at the Busan Museum. With essays by Blanc. Text in English, Korean, and French. Signed by Blanc. First edition. 27 cm; 135 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings.....
The Formal Garden in England
London: Macmillan & Co., 1892, 1892. 8vo; pp. xii; 244; sixty-seven illustrations from drawings by F. Inigo Thomas. Owner's name; offsetting to endpapers; light foxing throughout; else a good copy in white, gilt-stamped cloth which is darkened from age. A history of garden design in England. Blomfeld was an architect.....
Prints and Plants of Old Gardens
Richmond: Garrett and Massie, (1932). First edition. Folio; 101 pp.; illustrated from prints for old gardening books and herbals. A good copy lacking the dust jacket.
Gardening in Time: Planning Future Growth and Flowering
New York: Prentice Hall Press, (1990), 1990. First American edition. Oblong. 8vo; 168 pp.; 200 illustrations from photographs, drawings and plans. Fine in dust jacket.
Old Wives' Lore for Gardeners
London: Bodley Head, (1980), 1980. Later printing. 12mo; 64 pp.; illustrated. Fine in dust jacket. A delightful collection of absolutely unscientific instructions for gardening and planting.
My Garden in Spring
New York: Dodge Publishing Company, N.d. (1914). First American edition from the English sheets. 8vo; pp.xx, 306; forty plates, including sixteen in color. Front hinge starting, owner's plate and light foxing, else a good copy or better in original gilt-stamped green cloth with pictorial paste-down. The first volume of the.....
The Baroque Landscape: Andre Le Notre & Vaux le Vicomte
New York: Rizzoli, 2004. First American Edition. Hard Cover. The chateau and gardens at Vauxle Vicomte, begun 1653, were the first great landscape designed by Le Notre and mark the beginning of the baroque tradition in garden design. First American edition. 26 cm; 191 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and.....
The Wild Orchids of Britain
London: The Bodley Head, (1950). Limited edition, #409/1,140. 4to; 137 pp.; frontis. and 40 full-page color plates by Gavin Bone. Fading to spine; small spot to front cover; else a very good copy in original gilt-stamped red cloth.
Garden Art: The Personal Pursuit of Artistic Refinements, Inventive Concepts, Old Follies and New Conceits for the Home Gardener
New York: Walker, (1981), 1981. First edition. 4to; 192 pp.; illustrated from drawings and from photographs by Guy Burgess (but probably not that Guy Burgess). Fine in price-clipped dust jacket.
Spanish Gardens and Patios
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1928. Later printing. 4to; pp. 305, (3) advertisements; illustrated with 175 half-tones, four plates in color; top edge gilt. Bookplate; else a very good copy or better in original gilt-stamped blue cloth. The first part of the book deals with Andalusian gardens, including those at Alcazar Palace, Seville.....
Modern Gardens British and Foreign:special Winter Number of the Studio, 1926-27
London: The Studio, 1926. First edition. 4to; 166 pp.; illustrated from photographs. Wrappers chipped, contents clean and bright. Survey of contemporary gardens around the world.
Italian Gardens of the Renaissance and Other Studies
London: Smith Elder, 1`914. First edition. 8vo; 292 pp.; illustrated. Front hinge repair; else a good copy in original green cloth.
Les Collections du Chateau Gourdon: La Modernite Livres et Documents
Paris: Christies, 2011. Catalog for the auction of modern architecture and design books, manuscripts, and photographs from the collection of Prince Yaswant Rao Holkar Bahadur, Maharajah of Indore. The Prince was a patron and connoisseur of Modernism and his collection included monographs and reference works in architecture, decorative arts, design.....
Botanical, Horticultural and Natural History Books, Drawings and Prints Including Property from the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation
New York: Christie's, (1986). First edition. 4to; 133 pp.; illustrated. VG. Prices realized laid-in.
Public Art Fund’s Urban Paradise: Gardens in the City
New York: Public Art Fund, 1994. A catalog for the 1994 exhibition of artists’ proposals for a multi-site, multi-year program exploring the integration of art and urban environment through the garden. An early effort by Public Art Fund with the involvement of ten artists to survey and promote city gardens.....
Clifton Little Venice Garden and Architectural Ornaments
London: Clifton, n.d. (c. 1985). The nursery’s collection of garden ornaments and decoration, photographed, mounted on sheets, loose in a string-tied portfolio designed to look like 19th-early 20th century architectural and design folios. I don’t know much about this place--it took me a better part of a week to decipher.....
The Book of Flowers: Four Centuries of Flower Illustration
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, (1973), 1973. First American edition. Folio.; 208 pp.; illustrated, including forty color plates; biblioiography. Spot of soiling to front cover, else a very good copy in original gilt-stamped green cloth, in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Selections from the herbals, floralegiums, floras and horticultural.....
Gardens of Spain: An Exhibit of the Work of Javier de Winthuysen y Losada (1874-1956)
Washington (D.C.): International Institute of Site Planning, 1981. Catalog for an exhibition of the work of Javier de Winthuysen y Losada, a Spanish artist and author and a leading authority on the design, conservation, and restoration of Spanish gardens. Shown here are excerpts from his publishe works, as well as.....
Trees & Shrubs of the British Isles: Native & Acclimated
London & New York: J. M. Dent & E. P. Dutton, 1909, 1909. First American edition. Two volumes; 4to; pp. xxxii, lxxxiv, 107; viii, 261; 86 plates (16 in color) from illustrations by C.F. Newall. T.e.g. Minor wear to extremities; short marginal tears to two leaves not affecting images or.....