IMPERIAL GARDENS : Ancient Chinese Architecture. by Liyao Cheng:

Springer Verlag GmbH, 1998. Very Good. Former library book. No dust jacket. Different cover. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.

Springer, 1998-04-02. Hardcover. Good.

Wien / Vienna & New York: Springer-Verlag 1998. Large 4to. 206 pages, 131 beautiful illustrations. In the original card box. The imperial gardens were elegant resorts for all forms of entertainment. Rapid developments in Chinese society, the economy and the arts lent great impetus to the construction of elaborate and elegant imperial parks. The technical virtuosity of the waterways and a preference for exotically formed rockeries produced enchanting and constantly changing man-made worlds. The genre reached its zenith with the Yuanmingyuan garden, generally accepted as one of the finest of its kind ever created in China. 321182992x . Fine. Hard Cover. First English Edition. 1998.

Springer, 1998. 1st English-Language Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Book condition is Very Good; in a Very Good- dust jacket. A few tears to jacket edges. Some sunning to jacket. Text is clean and unmarked, illustrated throughout. ; 15.71 X 11.21 X 0.88 inches; 195 pages.

Wien, Austria: Springer. Like New/No Dustjacket. (1998). folio, 196 pp. .