Search Results: Landscape Architecture from Trevian Books

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..

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..

Woodbridge: Antique Collectors' Club, (1998) Second printing. 4to; 389 pp.; illustrated from photographs and drawings. A fine copy in in a very good dust jacket. A history of garden ornament design and manufacture over the past 300 years. Excellent sourcebook with information on materials, designs, reproduction of catalog pages, etc..

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, (1996) 8vo; 290 pp.; illustrated. A very good copy in wrappers. Critical biography on the great 19th century American horticulturist and architect. paperback..

Santa Monica, California, U.S.A.: Hennessey & Ingalls, 1985. Fine copy in original pictorial wrappers..

London: Ad Editions Ltd, 1986 First edition. 4to; 48 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. Ex-library architectural firm with stamp to cover; else a good copy or better in original picgtorial wrappers. Contents of this issue include "American Urbanism" with an article by Krier on the complettion of Washington DC; Maggie Keswick on Chinese gardens..

London: Architectural Press, 1985 This issue with the theme "Landscape and Buildings" features articles by or about Gulbenkian, Richard Rogers, Tschumi, Jellicoe in Texas, Scarpa and the Brion cemetery, others. 29.5 cm; 110 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A fine copy in wrappers..

Washington DC: NEA, 1977 "31 architects, 3 landscape architects, 2 designers, 1 historian and 1 city planner contacted 40,000 students at 16 middle, 25 elementary, and"17 high schools in 27 towns and cities.” A detailed report on the first year of this NEA-sponsored program. First edition. 21.5 cm; 75 pp.; illustrated from photographs and drawings. A fine copy in wrappers.

New York: NYLPC, 1981 Two-volume set of the catalogs for the 1981 exhibition at the Met of the landscape and design work of Olmsted and his partners. Vol.1: 23 cm; 169 pp; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. Vol 2: 23 cm; 38 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. Fine copies in slipcase showing minor wear..

New York: Weatherhill, (1970), 1970. Later printing. 4to; 215 pp.; illustrated from photographs and drawings, many in color. A fine copy in original gilt-stamped green cloth, in a vey good dust jacket. Largely a handsome photo essay on the varied functions of bamboo, including its use in the garden, with a chapter on the plant's lore and versatality, and a useful chapter on cultivation..

New York: Rizzoli, 2004 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 drawings. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

New York: Orange Judd and Company, (1870). The Swiss-born landscape architect emigrated to the Unites States in 1859, settling in Hartford. This, his first book, "...documents his major commissions...and contains the best surviving evidence of his technical skill in site engineering as well as his taste in landscape design" ("Pioneers of American Landscape Design") Forty pages of illustrated text discussing technique are followed by twenty-four illustrated plans of work in Hartford and the Northeast. First edition. Folio (35 x 27 cm); 40 pp.; 84 text cuts and 24 colored lithographic plates. Rubbing and wear to backstrip and extremities; bookplate and owner’s ink stamp to front pastedown; plates bright and clean. A good copy in original gilt-stamped maroon publisher’s cloth. . First Edition.

Basel: Birkhaeuser Verlag, (1999) A survey of current [1999] trends in landscape archiotecture. Showing work by Finlay, Lassus, Latz, others. First English edition. 30 cm; 247 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A very good copy in wrappers..

Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A.: Acropolis Books Inc, 1991. First edition. 4to; 310 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans and drawings. A VG copy in a VG dust jacket. A monograph on the gardens designed by the famous team of landscape architects..

Melville: Duck Pond Press, (2006) First edition. Folio; 192 pp.; illustrated from photographs. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. the story of the planning and building of the Long Island course. .

Cambridge: MIT Press, (1984) Classic text on the history of the American campus, a distinctively American type of architectural planning. Second paperback edition, 1995. 25 cm; 337 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. Light wear to top of spine; else a very good copy in wrappers.. Soft Cover.

New York: Eugene Luchessi, N.d. [c. 1920] First edition. 4to; 47 pp.; illustrated from photographs. Narrow stain to bottom margins; else a good copy in original printed string-bound wrappers. Catalog for Luchessi's reproductions of statues, fountains, and decorations for the garden and for interior decoration. With prices..

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.

New York: Scribners, (1970), 1970. Second edition. 8vo; pp. xxii, 424; illustrated. Owner's name, else qa very good copy in a dust jacket..

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 "Clifton Little Venice"; there is no date; it seems their stock of this type was auctioned off in 1994. Showing 28 items including urns, caryatides, chairs and seats, sarcophagus, columns, cupola, etc. 39 cm; 28 images on 20 leaves, loose as issued. Small splash marks to bottom margin of one sheet, not affecting image or text; else a very good copy or better in cloth-backed marbled paper boards with ties..