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English House Design A Review
by Willmott, Ernest
London: B. T. Batsford, 1911. Hardcover. Good. Quarto. xi, errata, 228 pages, [4] pages advertisements. Illustrated. Brown cloth hardcover with gilt title and floral decorations on the front cover and spine. Cloth lightly edge worn at the extremities. Front and rear end sheets toned. Light foxing to the rear advertisements. Gift inscription written on the right front flyleaf.
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CA$48.52
PLOT Volume 11: Opulence
by KING, MICHAEL et al. (eds.)
New York: NYCC, 2022 Featuring curated submissions by students, faculty, artists, and practitioners, this issue explores the theme of opulence as found on and about the campus by the second-year MLA students. First edtion. 18 cm; 142 pp.; illustrated. A fine copy in wrappers..
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CA$34.66
American Arcadia: California and the Classical Tradition
by HOLLIDAY, PETER J
New York: Oxford, 2016 An analysis of the classical influence in California's cultural history, including examples of architecture, landscape design, and the plastic arts reflecting classical design values. First edition. 25.5 cm; 480 pp.; illustrated from photographs and drawings. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket..
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CA$103.97
American Garden Literature in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection (1785-1900) : From The New England Farmer to Italian Gardens An Annotated Bibliography
by WOLSCHKE-BULMAHN, JOACHIM & JACK BECKER
Washington (D.C.): Dumbarton Oaks, 1998 An annotated catalog of 405 items in the collection, with brief essays and some illustrations. First edition. 26.5 cm, illustrated. A fine copy in wrappers..
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CA$48.52
Craig Johnson's Country Matters: Antique Garden Ornament and Statuary
by JOHNSON, CRAIG
Los Olivos: Craig Johnson, N.d. [c. 1985] Elaborate trade catalog for defunct California garden ornament dealer Craig Johnson. Fifty items show in photographs mounted to cards with desciptions. Price list laid-in. Pieces shown mostly stone and wrought iron, and imported. Sheets loose in cardboard portfolio, as issued. This is Portfolio No. 60082 of an unspecified limitation. Plates fine; portfolio showing wear, rubbing and lacking one ribbon tie..
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CA$131.70
ALS to Mrs. Abbott
by Manship, Paul
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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CA$138.63
An Introduction To The Knowledge And Practice Of Gardening
by Marshall, Charles
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,...
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CA$485.21
Structuring Confluence: W Architecture and Landscape Architecture
by WILKS, BARBARA
ORO, 2014 Trade catalog for the New York firm showing recent (2004) work and projects. First edition. 27 cm; 124 pp; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A fine copy in cloth-backed boards, published without a dust jacket..
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CA$41.59
Cemeteries
by EGGENER, KEITH
New York: Norton, 2010 A monograph on the American cemetery, from early churchyards, rural and family plots, the finely designed parks of the late 19th century where tombs and crypts were sited in rustic wooded grounds designed by leading landscape architects. First edition. 28 cm; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.
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CA$83.18
Golf Course Developments
by JONES, REES L. & GUY L. RANDO
Washington DC: Urban Land Institute, 1974 A mid-1970’s aid to developers of golf courses and golf course-based residential communities showing varieties of existing layouts, course designs, clubhouse details, construction methods and costs, etc. Jones is a golf course architect and Rando a landscape architect. First edition. 28 cm; 105 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A very good copy or better in wrappers..
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CA$48.52
Britain in View (Helen Dillon's copy)
by Michael Lancaster
Inscribed By Author to gardener Helen Dillon. 1st edition, very good condition, hardcover. Rare signed copy. This book is an ambitious and important as well as delightful book. Its aim is to help us understand colour and , through that understanding, to cast a critical as well as an appreciative eye on what we see around us.
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CA$37.14
Landscape Journal: Design, Planning, and Management of the Land Vol. 26 No. 1 2007
by DEMING, M. ELEN
Madison: UW Press, 2007 A journal published by the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture at SUNY ESF. This issue "Race, Space, and the Destabilization of Practice" examining the link between environmental design and social justice. 28 cm; 180 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A fine copy in wrappers..
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CA$48.52
Landscape: Editing Spatial Relations Summer/Autumn 2012
by TREML, GERHARD, et al
Vienna: Eden’s Edge, 2012 Issue 2, the Tool Issue, with articles exploring the field of landscape design with narrative tools. First edition. 26 cm; 60 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A fine copy in wrappers..
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CA$48.52
Uncommon Ground
by BALSLEY, THOMAS
New York: ORO, 2015 Trade catalog for the New York landscape architect showing projects and completed work. Balsley's work in the city includes parks as well as projects for scraps of land and the post-industrial waterfront, along with work all over the US and in Asia..
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CA$41.59
The White Flower Farm Garden Book
by Amos Pettingill
Litchfield: White Flower Farm, 1995. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First printing of the 1995 edition of this gardening and landscaping classic. A valuable resource.
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CA$69.32
Some English Gardens
by Jekyll, Gertrude & George S. Elgood
London: Longman's Green, 1904. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt. Teg. Very good. 131 pages. 34 x 24 cm, fifty full-page colored plates. Scarce and very collectable work by the doyen of English landscape architecture. Gertrude Jekyll concentrated her design work on applying plants in a variety of settings, woodland gardens, water gardens and herbaceous borders always striving to achieve the most natural effect. Slight rubbing to backstrip extremities.
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CA$485.21
The Landscape We See
by ECKBO, GARRETT
New York: McGraw-Hill, (1969) Eckbo, a landscape architect, presents an early exploration of the need for environmentally-based design. Later printing. 4to; 223 pp; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A very good copy in original cloth, with a torn dust jacket..
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CA$346.58
Small Gardens and Landscape Planting
by JONES, HELEN SWIFT
New York: William H. Wise & Co., 1940 Jones, who studied at the ambridge School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, was a landscape architect in private practice from 1925, working from New York City and Stamford CT until 1970. Along with journalistic contributions to the leading home periodicals of the day, she wrote this uncommon little pamphlet for Wise in 1940, with "suggestions for planning, constructing and planting which can be adapted to various garden areas..." for small...
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Les Serres Royales de Laeken
by Goedleven, Edgard
Inbel, Bruxelles: Ducolot, 1989. Second printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good. Folio. 276 pp. Bound in full green cloth, stamped in gilt on cover and spine, in Illustrated dust jacket. Profusely illustrated, chiefly color, including frontispiece and several fold outs. Text in French. Includes bibliography. Near Fine, bright, clean copy, in Very Good+ dust jacket with wear and rubbing to extremities, overall scuffing.
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CA$69.32
America in Bloom Great American Gardens Open to the Public; Introduction by Phoebe Cutler
by Alcosser, Murray (Photographer)
New York: Rizzoli, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. mauve cloth decorated in blind. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 225 pages. 29 x 23.5 cm. Profusely illustrated with color plates printed on high gloss stock. List of Public Gardens represented. Public Garden Source List. Index.
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CA$55.45
Beatrix Farrand's American Landscapes
by Balmori, Diana; Diane Kostial-McGuire; Eleanor M. McPeck
Sagaponack, New York: Sagapress, [1985]. Paperback. Very Good +. Small 4to. viii, 216 pp. Bound in illustrated wrappers. Black and white frontispiece portrait of Farrand and illustrations throughout, some in full color. Includes a chronological list of Farrand's commissions, and an index. First printing stated on copyright page. Very Good+, light wear to wrappers, otherwise bright, clean copy.
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CA$69.32
Jardin mediéval
by Maurières, Arnaud; Ossart, Eric; Mayer, Joëlle Caroline; Le Scanff, Gilles
Editions du Chêne, 2003. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. Text in French..
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CA$69.32
A Clearing in the Distance
by Rybczynski, Witold
Scribner, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. 8vo. 480 pp. Bound in green boards, illustrated dust jacket. Black and white illustrations. Includes index. Very Good +, light soiling to edges of text block, other wise clean, tight copy, in Very Good+ dust jacket with some shelf wear.
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CA$34.66
The Essential Ian McHarg Writings on Design and Nature
by McHarg, Ian L. & Frederick R. Steiner
Island Press. As New. 2006. Softcover. 1597261173 . Includes a complete bibliography of Ian L. McHarg, and index. ; 8.7 X 5.9 X 0.4 inches; 164 pages .
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CA$55.45
Recent Projects
by HAYES, PAULA
New York: Paula Hayes, 2011 Hayes is an artist and garden designer with an extensive list of projects, designs, installations, and museum exhibitions. Included here are The Nocturne of the Limux maximus at MOMA in 2011, and four other projects.First edition. 18 cm; 102 pp.; illustrated from photographs. A very good copy or better in wrappers..
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CA$69.32
