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Alexander H. Ladd's garden book, 1888-1895: A 19th century view of Portsmouth


Ladd, Alexander H

Softcover. US, National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of New Hampshire [distributor], 1st, 1996-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 180 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 462716


Price: $13.00 

 

Field guide to the Common and Interesting Plants of Baja California, A


Coyle, Jeanette & Norman C. Roberts

Hardcover. La Jolla, CA, Natural History Publishing Company, 1st, 1975, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 206 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Light edgewear and rubbing to wrappers, previous owner's inscription on front end paper. Faint musty smell.

Record # 856876


Price: $23.00 

 

Gardens and Ghettos - The Art of Jewish Life in Italy


Mann (Editor)3545, Vivian B.

Hardcover. Berkeley, University of California Press, First Edition, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 354 pages. Hardcover published to accompany the exhibition of the same title held at the Jewish Museum, New York, September 17, 1989 to February 1, 1990. Black cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Full page, full color & bw illustrations throughout. Bright dust jacket with light marginal wear to edges. Light sunfade to spine. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 750829


Price: $31.00 

Gardens of NaplesMacDougall, Elizabeth Blair/Nicolas Sapieha

Gardens of Naples


MacDougall, Elizabeth Blair/Nicolas Sapieha

Hardcover. New York, M. T. Train/Scala Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages. Hardcover. Full color, full page illustrations & photography throughout. Dust jacket with light fading to cover spine. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 750087


Price: $23.00 

 

Great Gardens of Britain


Coats, Peter

Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam's, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, A pictorial survey of 38 of Britain's greatest gardens in color and black & white. 287 pages. Dust jacket edgeworn, chipped, price clipped. oversized

Record # 69079


Price: $28.00 

 

Green Inheritance - The World Wildlife Fund Book of Plants


Huxley, Anthony/David Attenborough

Hardcover. New York, Four Walls Eight Windows, First Edition, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 193 pages. Softcover. Profusely illustrated in full page, full color & black & white throughout. Light marginal foxing top edge. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 750908


Price: $15.00 

Hortus Eystettensis: The Bishop's Garden and Besler's Magnificent BookBarker, Nicolas

Hortus Eystettensis: The Bishop's Garden and Besler's Magnificent Book


Barker, Nicolas

Hardcover. London, England, The British Library, 1st thus, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages. Hardcover. Vivid color plates and b/w illustrations throughout. Decorated endpapers. Blue cloth cover boards, Gilt title on spine, all in beautiful condition. Binding tight. Pages clean and bright. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. A republication and history of the famous 17th Century book with reproductions of the original engravings, with 120 illustrations including 100 plates in full color.

Record # 32798


Price: $63.00 

 

Lawn, The - A History of an American Obsession


Jenkins, Virginia Scott

Softcover. Washington, Smithsonian Institution Press, First Edition, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 246 pages. Softcover with light wear to edges. 17 pages of black & white illustrations. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 750906


Price: $15.00 

 

Men and Gardens


Fairbrother, Nan

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 2nd, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, illust. with photos and line drawings. An elegant history of gardens and their place in our lives. lt. chipping and fade to dj. previous owner's initials on fr. fly leaf.

Record # 100658


Price: $18.00 

 

Missouri Botanical Garden - 1890


Board of Trustees of the Missouri Botanical Garden

Hardcover. St. Louis, Missouri Botanical Garden, 1st, 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 165 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs and fold-out maps of gardens. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612457


Price: $38.00 

 

Moffatt-Ladd House: Its Garden and Its Period:1763, The


Orcutt, Phiilip Dana

Softcover. Portsmouth, NH, The New Hampshire Society of Colonial Dames of America, 1st, 1935, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 48 pages. Blue-cloth backed boards with black spine, laid in pamphlet on the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, numerous b&w plates. Wear to cover edges and spine, discoloration along cover edges due to age, light chipping to some pages; a tight, clean copy.

Record # 806052


Price: $20.00 

 

Monks and Wine


Seward, Desmond

Hardcover. New York, Crown Publishers, Inc., First US, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 749 pages. Hardcover. Wine cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Illustrations in black & white throughout. 8 pages of illustrations in full color. Dust jacket with light wear to edges, & only faint toning. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 751180


Price: $15.00 

Monograph of the Work of Mellor, Meigs and Howe: Country Estates, Suburban Homes, and Other Structures (American Architectural Classics)Wister, Owen

Monograph of the Work of Mellor, Meigs and Howe: Country Estates, Suburban Homes, and Other Structures (American Architectural Classics)


Wister, Owen

Hardcover. US, Architectural Book Publishing, reprint, 1991-02-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 212 page. Extensive b&w photographs and illustrations with extensive documentation throughout. Gilt titles on cover and spine. Includes introduction detailing the history of the firm. Light shelf wear to front cover, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 466733


Price: $100.00 

Poetics of Gardens, TheMoore, Charles W.

Poetics of Gardens, The


Moore, Charles W.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA , The MIT Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 258 pages. Hardcover. Extensive b&w photographs throughout. Includes extensive bibliography. Some edge wear to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 468460


Price: $44.00 

Quest for Paradise: History of the World's GardensKing, Ronald

Quest for Paradise: History of the World's Gardens


King, Ronald

Hardcover. United Kingdom, Whittet Books Ltd, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 288 pages. Extensive color photography throughout. Gilt titles on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 466586


Price: $15.00 

 

Southern Gardens, Southern Gardening


Hunt, William Lanier

Hardcover. Durham, Duke University Press, First Edition, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 191 pages. Hardcover. Sage cloth boards with green titles to spine. Black & white illustrations. Dust jacket with wear to edges & age toning, now protected with a plastic cover. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 750913


Price: $15.00 

 

Speaking Garden, The


Hyams, Edward

Hardcover. London, Longmans, Green and Company, First Edition, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 181 pages. Hardcover. Green cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Light marginal toning. Black & white illustrations throughout. Original dust jacket with toning to edges, now protected with a plastic cover. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 750915


Price: $19.00 

 

Sweet Herbs and Sundry Flower - Medieval Gardens and the Gardens of the Cloisters


Bayard, Tania

Softcover. NY, MMOA, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2-color illust. 98 pages. Glazed cardboard covers. No dj issued.

Record # 60655


Price: $30.00 

 

This Blessed Land


Dekovic, Gene

Hardcover. St. Helena, CA, Illuminations Press, First Edition, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 104 pages. Wine boards with silver titles to spine. Full page, black & white illustrations throughout. Dust jacket with toning & small tears to edges. Lightly tanned to edges inside jacket. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. One illustration in full color. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 751419


Price: $31.00 

 

Tidewater Maryland Architecture and Gardens


Forman, Henry Chandlee

Hardcover. New York, Architectural Book Publishing Company, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 208 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Decorated cover boards, Black quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Decorated endpapers. Dust jacket price clipped, has some age tanning and wear about the edges. Pages also have a touch of tanning. In great shape for its age. "In a series of concise monographs on Tidewater Maryland's buildings and gardens, classified regionally, Dr. Forman shows the beauty of a time and place which are sadly changed and have very nearly vanished." Illustrated by author.

Record # 31623


Price: $25.00 

Visions of ParadiseSchinz, Marina

Visions of Paradise


Schinz, Marina

Hardcover. New York, Stewart, Tabori and Chang, reprint, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 271 pages. Hardcover. Extensive color photography throughout. Blind stamp on cover. Some edge wear to dust jacket, some foxing to top edge, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 468479


Price: $23.00 

Visions of ParadiseSchinz, Marina

Visions of Paradise


Schinz, Marina

Hardcover. New York, Stewart, Tabori and Chang, reprint, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 271 pages. Hardcover. Extensive color photography throughout. Blind stamp on cover. Some edge wear to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 468477


Price: $23.00 

 

Women and Their Gardens = A History From the Elizabethan Era to Today


Horwood, Catherine

Hardcover. Chicago, Ball Publishing, 1st Edition, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 436 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations throughout. 8 full page, full color illustrations. Dust jacket in very good condition, like new. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 750394


Price: $15.00 

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