Garden History Books

Washington, 1989. Illustrated, large 8vo, pp (6), 324, green cloth, good copy. (A series of essays by George B. Tatum, Charles B. Wood III, David Schuyler etc). ("The most important figure in pomology, horticulture, cottage and garden design in America before the Civil War. Almost single-handedly he created the profession we now call landscape architecture.") . (more information)

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West Bretton, 2006. Well illus, small 8vo, pp 80, paperback, a very good copy. [A brief, primarily pictorial account, including plates by Rory McEwen, Celia Hegedus, Ann Fraser and Sally Crosthwaite.] . (more information)

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1999. Well illustrated, large 8vo, pp 176, wrappers, very good. (Originally produced as an exhibition catalogue, but in effect a useful guide to Italian gardens, 36 being described and illustrated, many of them private. Bilingual text). . (more information)

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London: Quiller Press, 1995. Illustrated with black & white photos & maps, 8vo, pp 171, paperback, very good copy. [Updated edition of 1994 printing.] (Originally published at £9.99.) . (more information)

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Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society Ltd, 1985. Large 8vo, pp (129), paperback, covers showing very slight signs of use. (Reprinting of an early 18th century gardening manuscript.]. (more information)

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London, 1996. NEW. Illustrated, large slim square 8vo, pp 36, paperback, a very good copy.[Postage within the UK will be no more than £2.65]. (more information)

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London: Frances Lincoln, 2003. Very well illustrated, quarto, pp 240, a fine unused copy in a fine dustwrapper. . (more information)

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London, 1979. Illustrated, 4to, pp 72, damp stained at upper corner throughout, with slight adhesion damage, paperback, a little worn. . (more information)

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London: Weidemfield & Nicolson, 1994. Well illustrated, large 8vo, pp 136, a good copy of the paperback edition.. (more information)

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New York: Rizzoli, 1991. Well illustrated with photographs (mostly in colour) by Liberto Perugi, square octavo, pp 192, paperback. Includes gardens in Piedmont, Lombardy, Veneto, Tuscany, Marche, Latium and Campania. . (more information)

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New Haven: Yale, 2005. Well illustrated, large 8vo, pp viii, 232, a very good copy in dustwrapper. [A fine account of London's early Tudor gardens, not least those of Thomas More at Chelsea, and Cardinal Wolsey's York Place in Westminster and Hampton Court. . (more information)

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Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2007. Well illustrated, large quarto, pp 363, a very good copy. [Includes Ornamental Plants in Agricultural and Botanical Treatises from Al-Andalus. The Rose and the Balsam - the Garden as a Source of Perfume and Medicine. Princely Safavid Gardens. Perspectives on Ottoman Gardens. Gardens at Kagithane Commons during the Tulip period. Rajput Gardens and Landscapes, etc].. (more information)

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Washington: Dumbarton Oaks, 2002. Illustrated, large 8vo, pp vi, 384, a very good copy in dustwrapper. [The Culture of Horticulture; Paxton's Water Lily; Women, Gardens & the English Middle Class in the Early Nineteenth Century;Merchant gardeners of Bristol in the Eighteenth century; Garden Architecture at Vauxhall; Rise and Fall of Gardens in the Republic of Genoa, 1528-1797; Taste, Class & Floriculture in Seventeenth Century France; La Pensee Boureoisie in the Biedermeier garden etc].. (more information)

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London: J. & A. Churchill, 1914. Many coloured and half-tone photographic plates, large thick quarto, pp xvi,500, scattered foxing, top edge gilt, original brown lightly decorated buckram, dull and slightly worn, front hinge cracking, (a simple recasing would put it right), free front endpaper creased, a duplicate from the University Library, Liverpool, with their bookplate on verso of the front free endpaper, and their tiny blindstamp on the title page. VERY SCARCE. [ A record of the first show to be held on the Chelsea site. Although owing its inception to the Royal Horticultural Society, it was actually organized by a small private company. The work was published at Cory's expense). . (more information)

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Glendaruel: Argyll Publishing, 1999. NEW COPY. (Postage within the UK will be no more than £1.40. Illustrated, small slim 8vo, pp 88, wrappers, very good copy. (An excellent history of the unique Victorian glasshouse at Glasgow Botanic garden, and its creator.) . (more information)

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Amsterdam: Architectura & Natura Press, 1997. Illustrated, 8vo, pp 175, a bright copy in a dustwrapper with the slightest of dents on the upper edge. [Various essays on Neercanne by de Jong, Frits van Voorden, Adriaan van der Staay and Fridy Duterloo are followed by Mark Laird on "The unresolved dilemma in Planting Conservation", Lablaude on the Park of Versailles, Woudstra on the Privy garden at Hampton CourtGeza Hajos on "Terraced Gardens in Central Europe", Kjell Lundquist on restoration in Sweden, and Nilan Cooray on the restoration of the gardens of Sigiriya in Sri Lanka.]. (more information)

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Dallas.: Taylor & Francis, 1992. Well illustrated, large 8vo, pp x, 182, a good copy in dustwrapper. . (more information)

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Victoria: Five Mile Press, 1989. Illustrated, quarto, pp 137, dustwrapper, a good copy. (Ownership stamp of the garden historian Anthony Huxley). . (more information)

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An illustrated guide book, (c.1990 ?), well illustrated, pp 16, wrappers, TOGETHER WITH a copy of FRANK GIBSON' s "Tresco - Paradise Island", well illustrated, 12mo, pp 32, wrappers, TOGETHER WITH "Souvenir Map and Guide", one large folding sheet. All in bright condition.. (more information)

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London: Dent, 1928. VOLUME 2 ONLY. Illustrated, quarto, pp xvi, 486, t.e.g., lower corner of upper cover slightly stained, otherwise a good copy in the original decorated blue cloth, in a rather poor dustwrapper.. (more information)

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London: Hutchinson, 1960. Illustrated, thick 8vo, pp 483, slightly browned, cl dull and a little bumped, spine very dull and a little rubbed and spotted, the first 35 pages slightly bruised on the fore-edge, a little lining in the margins. [A detailed garden history.] . (more information)

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London: Country Life, 1967. Illustrated, large 8vo, pp 199, very neat name on the front endpaper, which is also very slightly browned, otherwise a good copy in a dustwrapper which is not price-clipped. [A classic history of trees in Britain - from the Celts to medievalism, the landscape movement, the rise of the picturesque, Victorian conifers etc.]. (more information)

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Spalding: Woodland and Garden Publishing Company, 2003. NEW. Very well illustrated, horizontal 8vo, pp 160, an excellent copy in dustwrapper. [An excellent introduction to Cotehele, Lanhydrock, Caerhays, Trewithen, Heligan, Antony, Chyverton, Glendurgan, Trengwainton, Trelissick, Trebah and Tresco Abbey.] . (more information)

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London, 2005. NEW. Very well illustrated, large quarto, pp 256, dustwrapper, very good copy. [A large-scale history, from the twelfth century on.]. (more information)

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Richmond, Surrey: Kew, 1975. Illustrated with monochrome photos, line drawings by Joanna Lowe, 8vo, pp. 48, illustrated wrappers, (guide book format) stapled, back cover creased. ( 1975 marked the 10th anniversary of the acquisition of Wakehurst Place as a satellite garden to the Royal Botanic Garden, Kew.) . Illus. by Lowe, Joanna. (more information)

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London: Groombridge, 1857. Small 8vo, 6 colour plates, extra colour title page, many text engravings, pp xvi,508, decorated cloth gilt, a little dull and rubbed, large corner snipped from front end paper. Bookplate of Jim Russell (designed by Felix Kelly). . Second Edition.. (more information)

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Dumbarton Oaks, 1990. Illustrated, quarto, pp (4), 214, a good copy in dustwrapper. [Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of landscape Architecture, XII. Includes Haley on "William III as Builder of Het Loo", Erik de Jong on Tthe Function and Meaning of Dutch Garden Art, 1650 - 1702", Wilhelm Diedenhofen on "The Gardens of Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen at Cleves", Willemien de Vries on Constantin Huygens Hofwijck, Vanessa Bezemer-Sellers on "The Bentinck Garden at Sorgvliet", Florence Hopper on "Daniel Marot : a French Garden Designer in Holland", Carla Oldenburger-Ebbers " Notes on Plants Used in Dutch Gardens in the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century" , and Hunt's "Dutch Garden in the English Imagination".] . (more information)

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London: Thames & Hudson, 2000. Well illustrated throughout with black and white photos and illustrations, square format small 4to, pp (xiv) 273, black cloth with gilt lettering on spine, Thames & Hudson twin dolphins motif imprint on front cover, in good dustwrapper, originally published at £32.00. . (more information)

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London and Amsterdam: Journal of Garden History, 1988. Well illustrated, large horizontal 8vo, pp vi, 341, hardback, dustwrapper, good copy. (Bilingual English/Dutch text). . (more information)

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Dumbarton Oaks, 1993. Illustrated, quarto, pp (4), 165, a good copy in dustwrapper. [Includes Hunt's "Discovering the Vernacular garden", John Jackson's "Past and Present of the Vernacular garden", Michel Conan on "The Hortillonages", Todd Longstaffe-Gowan on "Private Urban Gardening in England, 1700-1830", Richard Westmacott on "The Gardens of African-Americans in the Rural South", Pierce Lewis on "Sunset and Southern Living", and Bernard Lassus on "The Garden Landscape : A Popular Aesthetic".] . (more information)

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