Search Results: Titles starting with G from The Bookpress, Ltd.

(CHIAVERI) HEMPEL, Eberhard. GAETANO CHIAVERI. Hanau: Werner Dausien, 1956. 4to. Cloth. Frontispiece, 264 pages. Second edition. Excellent monograph on Chiaveri--eighteenth-century Italian architect who wor chiefly in the service of the Polish and Saxon court. His best known buildin is the Katholische Hofkirche in Dresden. Rubber-stamp on title page, else ve good.

(TYPE SPECIMEN) GALE & POLDEN TYPE IN USE AT THE WELLINGTON PRESS. Aldershot: n.d. (circa 1930). Small square 8vo. Cloth. (44) pages. First edition. A nice copy of an attractive type specimen.

ROSELEUR, Alfred. GALVANOPLASTIC MANIPULATIONS. A PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR THE G AND SILVER ELECTROPLATER. Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird, 1872. 8vo. Publisher's cloth. xix, 17-495, pages. First American Edition. The standard technical book on electroplating translated from the second Fren edition of 1866. A three-page folio prospectus for the second American editi (1883) is laid-in. With a twenty-four page catalogue of Scientific Books by Henry Carey Baird. Respined, with new endpapers.

(TESSIN) SIREN, Osvald. GAMLA STOCKHOLMSHUS AF NICODEMUS TESSIN D.A. OCH NAGRA SAMTIDA BYGGNADER. Two volumes. Stockholm: Norstedt, (1912). Folio. Half-morocco. (viii), 243, (1) pages, 11 plates; (viii), 269 (1) pages, 104 plates. First edition, 1 of 420 copies. This is an important study of the architectural work of the influential Stockholm house of Tessin. It is a companion to the author's monograph on Nicodemus Tessin. The collotype plates are from photographs, drawings, and plans of buildings from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. Rebacked, else very good.

HUNT, John Dixon. GARDEN AND GROVE. Princeton: Princeton University Press, (1986.) 4to. Cloth, dust jacket. xx, pages. First edition. The Italian Renaissance Garden in the English imagination, 1600-1750.

HARRIS, John. A GARDEN ALPHABET. (London): Octopus Books, (1979). Oblong 8vo. Cloth, dust jacket. Unpaginated First edition. Each beautifully drawn letter is followed by picturesque paintings or drawing and accompanying stories about the subject. A delightfully attractive book. Very good in a dust jacket with a short tear internally repaired.

BUSH-BROWN, Louise. GARDEN BLOCKS FOR URBAN AMERICA. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1969). 4to. Cloth, dust jacket. 126 page First edition. A description of the Neighborhood Garden Association and its efforts to creat community gardens in Philadelphia, with illustrations. Top edge sunned, dust jacket chipped, text clean and bright.

BUSH-BROWN, Louise. GARDEN BLOCKS FOR URBAN AMERICA. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1969). 4to. Cloth, dust jacket. 126 page First edition. A description of the Neighborhood Garden Association and its efforts to creat community gardens in Philadelphia, with illustrations. Fine, in lightly chip dust jacket.

BUSH-BROWN, Louise. GARDEN BLOCKS FOR URBAN AMERICA. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1969). 4to. Cloth, dust jacket. 126 page First edition. A description of the Neighborhood Garden Association and its efforts to creat community gardens in Philadelphia, with illustrations. Fine, in lightly chip dust jacket.

(TRADE CATALOGUE) THE ERSKINS STUDIOS. GARDEN ORNAMENTS. (New York: The Erskins Studios, circa 1950.) Square 8vo. Pictorial wrappers. pages. First edition. An illustrated catalogue of garden ornaments--vases, fountains, statuary, and bird baths--in composite, lead, marble, bronze, and terra cotta. Price list laid-in. Very good.

(GARDEN ORNAMENTS) LYNCH, Kenneth. GARDEN ORNAMENTS. Wilton, Connecticut: The Canterbury Publishing Company, (1979.) 4to. Cloth. Sixth printing. A fine catalogue with a twenty-four page addendum and seperate price list laid-in.

SUDELL, Richard. GARDEN PLANNING. London: English Universities Press Limited, (1953). 8vo. Printed boards. 128 pages. First edition. Suddel illustrates and describes fifty garden plans for small suburban garden Bookseller's ticket on front pastedown, name and stamp crossed out on front fly-leaf, occasional underlining in pencil, overall a very good copy.

GRIGSON, Geoffrey. GARDENAGE OR THE PLANTS OF NINHURSAGA. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1952. 8vo. Cloth, dust jacket. xii, 171 page (15) plates. First edition. "Gardenage is a gardening book least of all concerned with how to grow plants It is a book rather about garden plants as individuals with a history which i often exotic"--front flap. A very good copy of a scarce book.

Taylor, G.C., ed.. JEKYLL, Gertrude. A GARDENER'S TESTAMENT. London: Country Life, 1937. 8vo. Cloth. Frontispiece plate, xiv, 258 pages, plus 44 pages of photographs. First edition. A compilation of Gertrude Jekyll's writings on various gardening and planting topics she had written over her life originally published in The Country Life gardening magazine. Some of the articles include "Gardens Past and Present," "The Water Garden," "Colour in the Garden," "The Fern Garden," and "A Restospect." The articles were edited by Francis Jekyll and G.C. Taylor with photographs taken by Munstead Wood. Early owner's name on front blank leaf, else very good.

Michael George. CORRECHER, Consuelo M. THE GARDENS OF SPAIN. (New York): Harry N. Abrams, (1993). Folio. Cloth, dust jacket. 200 pages. First edition. A beautifully illustrated exploration of Spanish gardens. Very good.

HELLYER, Arthur. GARDENS OF GENIUS. (New York: Hamlyn, 1980.) Folio. Cloth, dust jacket. 223 pages. First editio Very good.

FORESTIER, J.C.N. GARDENS, A NOTE-BOOK OF PLANS AND SKETCHES. New York and London: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1924. Folio. Green cloth. x, (ii), 237 pages. First English language edition. Translated from the French by Helen Morgenthau Fox, Forestier (1861-1930), an important early twentieth century French landscape architect, presents his notebook of plans and sketches for walled gardens; backgrounds, accents, tre walls and hedges, terraces and more are addressed. Most of the designs are smaller gardens and are Spanish influenced. Numerous illustrations with-in t text. Some slight discoloration to spine and front board, else a very good co.

(PAGE) SCHINZ, Marina, and Gabrielle van Zuylen. THE GARDENS OF RUSSELL PAGE. New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, (1991). Small folio. Cloth, dust jacket. 255, (1) pages. First edition. Richly illustrated examination of the landscape designs and gardens of Russel Page. Text by Gabrielle van Zuylan, and color photographs by Marina Schinz. Very good.

RUSSELL, Vivian. GARDENS OF THE RIVIERA. New York: (1993). 4to. Cloth, dust jacket. 160 pages. First American edition Colorful gardens and equally vibrant personalities brighten the pages of this beautifully illustrated book as Russell traces the history of the great Rivie gardens. Sir Kenneth Clark, Edith Wharton, Somerset Maugham, Renoir and many other figures of the nineteeth and twentieth centuries provide recollections are remembered by other visitors to the extraordinary gardens of the Mediterranean coast. Fine.

HADFIELD, John and Miles. GARDENS OF DELIGHT. Boston: Little, Brown, (1964.) 8vo. Cloth. Frontispiece, 192 pages, 45 plate First edition. Gardens as represented in fine art throughout the ages. Very good.