Search Results: Titles starting with V from Landscape Books

1972. Very Good. HIBBERT, CHRISTOPHER. Versailles. New York: Newsweek, 1972. 4to, pp.172, illustrated with colored and halftone plates. Index, bibliography. Dj. Vg/vg.

1982. Paperback. Very Good. SCOTT, FRANK J. Victorian Gardens. Part I: Suburban Home Grounds. n.p.: American Life Foundation, n.d. 8vo, pp.vii, 274 + 31 plates, illustrated with 31 plates and 55 figures in the text. [This is a facsimile reprint of part I of the 1870 edition of The Art of Beautifying Suburban Home Grounds.] Paper. Wraps. Vg.

1983. Good. SCOURSE, NICOLETTE. Victorians and their Flowers. Portland, Oregon: Timber Press, 1983. Lg 8vo, pp.195, color and halftone illus. from photographs and old prints. Index, bibliography. Dj, NEW.

1985. Fine. SCHINZ, MARINA. Visions of Paradise: Themes and Variantions on the Garden. New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1985. 4to, pp.271, colored photographs by Marina Schinz, text by Susan Littlefield, index. Dj, as new.

1986. Good. FOX, ROBIN LANE. Variations on a Garden. Boston: David R. Godine, 1987, First U. S. edition. 8vo, pp.182, illus. in color and halftone from photographs. Index. Dj, mint.

1989. Good. CAREY, JOHN. Vegetable Gardening. Cambridge, England: Rampant Lions Press, 1989. Edition limited to 500 copies, of which this is No. 136. An essay on vegetable gardening illustrated with 5 colored linocuts by Clare Melinsky. Dec. paper covered boards cloth spine.

1889. Good. BERNARD, L., Editor. Versailles et Les Trianons: Description des Palais et Jardins. Contains: Une Journee a Versailles: Guide Illustre du Palais et du Parc. Versailles: L Bernard, Libraire-Editeur, 1889. 12mo, pp.127, illustrated with 55 gravures and plans. Index; and Guide Illustre des Palais et Jardins de Trianon: Catalogue des Objets d'Art Histoire et Description dans L'Ordre de Visite des Appartements du Musee des Voitures et du Hameau. Versailles: L. Bernard, Libraire-Editeur, 1889. 12mo, pp.89, illustrated in line and halftone. Index. Red gilt and black decorated cloth with beveled boards, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers with cloth reinforced hinges. Good, covers rubbed, corners beginning to wear, front hinge slightly loose.

Paperback. Very Good. Versailles et les Trianons. Album Artistique. Texte Francais/English text. n.p., n.d., (late 19th or early 20th c.) Oblong format, 7 3/4" x 4 1/2". 24 chromolithographed photo views. Cardboard wrappers. Vg.

1950. Paperback. Good. GEBELIN, FRANCOIS. Versailles. Alpina Guide Books. Paris: Editions Alpina, 1950. 12mo, pp.64, illus. w. halftones from photographs, map of the gardens. Wraps. Bottom corner of rear cover creased, with a light waterstain along fore edge of same.

1991. Good. [MAY, CAROLINE] MABEY, RICHARD, Introduction and Botanical Notes. A Victorian Flora. The Flower Paintings of Caroline May. Woodstock, NY: The Overlook Press, 1991. 4to, pp.16 + 84 color plates from watercolors and topographical maps from locations in England where she lived and painted. Dj. [Published @ $35.00]

1991. Fine. MARTIN, TOVAH. Victoria. Moments in the Garden. New York: Hearst Books, 1991. Wide 4to, pp.191, illus. in color from photographs. Dj, As new.

1984. Very Good. WIRTH, THOMAS. The Victory Garden Landscape Guide. Boston: Little, Brown, 1984, Second printing. 4to, pp.360, illus. in color from photographs and with line drawings and plans. Index, bibliography. Dj. Vg/vg.

1984. Paperback. Very Good. WIRTH, THOMAS. The Victory Garden Landscape Guide. Boston: Little, Brown, 1984. 4to, pp.360, illustrated in color from photographs and with line drawings and plans. Index, bibliography. Wraps. Vg.

1988. Fine. KOSCHATZKY, WALTER. Viennese Watercolors of the Nineteenth Century. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1988. 4to, pp.288, illus. in color and halftone from paintings and prints. Index. Short biographies of the artists. Dj. Fine/fine, (remainder mark on bottom edge.

1988. Paperback. Fine. KEAVENEY, RAYMOND. View of Rome. Smithsonian Institution, 1988. Edited and produced by Scala Publications, London. 4to, pp.304, illus. in color and halftone from the Eighty-one Drawings and Watercolors from the Thomas Ashbt Collection in the Vatican Library. Bibliographies, Biographies of Artists. Wraps. Fine.

1995. Good. ROBERTS, JANE. Views of Windsor: Watercolors by Thomas and Paul Sandby. From the Collection of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. London: Merrell Holberton, 1995. Square 4to, pp.144, illustrated in color and halftone from watercolors. Bibliography. Dj, NEW.

1988. Fine. VILLAS, JAMES. Villas At Table: A Passion for Food and Drink. New York: Harper & Row, 1988, First edition. 8vo, pp.xv, 302. Dj, NEW. [Published @ $19.95] Fine/fine.

1925. Very Good. EBERLEIN, HAROLD DONALDSON. Villas of Florence and Tuscany. (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1922,) New York: The Architectural Record Co., 1925. 4to, pp.411, illus. w. a colored frontispiece from a painting, and with halftone plates from photographs and plans. Index. Orig. gilt dec. blue buckram, t.e.g. Ex-library copy. Stamp on front paste-down, discard stamp on title page, call numbers on spine. Interior hinges have been reinforced with archival tissue. Faded portion at top of spine. Interior very good, with the exception of some foxing.

1988. Fine. WILSON, JEAN MOORCROFT. Virginia Woolf: Life and London. A Biography of Place. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1988, First American edition. 8vo, pp.256, illus. w. maps and drawings by Leonard McDermid. Index, bibliography. Dj. [Includes walking tours of Virginia Woolf's London.] Fine/fine.

1980. Good. NORTH, MARIANNE. A Vision of Eden: The Life and Work of Marianne North. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1980, First edition. Foreword by Anthony Huxley. Biographical Note by Brenda E. Moon. Publ. in collaboration with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 4to, pp.240, illus. in color from botanical paintings. Index. Dj. [Marianne North was a nineteenth century botanical painter and explorer, whose journeys took her around the world several times. This book is a collection of her botanical paintings, excerpts from her autobiography and travel memoirs, which was first published in 1893 under the title of Recollections of a Happy Life.]