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London: William Mackenzie, 1879. First edition. Hardcover. Light brown cloth lettered and decorated in gilt with backstrip also similarly detailed. Near Fine. 2 Vols.. 204 pages. Folio, 36.7 x 27 cm. illustrated with 41 fine chromoxylographed plates of fish engraved by Benjamin Fawcett after drawings by A.F. Lydon, and numerous steel-engraved plates of angling locales. Houghton, a Shropshire… Read more about this item

Chicago: Cherryburn Press, 1972. Hardcover. Orig. beige spine, spine lettering in white illustrated brown cloth with front cover red paper label. Fine in fine matching slipcase. Bewick, Thomas. Unpaginated. 17 x 29 cm. Limited edition, one of 160 copies. Save one, all the Bewick engravings were printed from the Bewick original blocks -- a total of twelve. The… Read more about this item

London: John Murray, 1886. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. blue cloth decorated and lettered in gilt and beveled edges. Very good. Vol.I: xviii, [2], 284 pages & Vol.2: xvi, [2], 400 pages. 22.5 x 16.5 cm. Includes: 14 maps (13 colored, 4 folding), 30 plates and 2 hand-colored frontispieces. Also: VoI has one hand-colored lithograph plate by J. G.… Read more about this item

London: R. Blamire, 1792. Third edition. leather_bound. Contemporary gilt decorated brown calf. Aeg. Very good. 2 Vols. 238, 264 (xiv). 22.5 x 14 cm. Thirty aquatint plates. Errata. RUSSEL p.55. "Gilpin is more closely identified with the picturesque movement than some of the greater artists and deeper thinkers." Contents generally clean, owner signature free endpaper of Vol.I &… Read more about this item

London: R. Blamire, 1791. First edition. leather_bound. Contemporary brown tree calf, marbled endpapers, raised bands spines richly gilt in floral arabesques. Near fine. Three vols. in two. 22 x 14.5. [*4, A-Y8, **2] & [*1, B-U8, X4, b8, c2]. Double page map and 31 tinted aquatints or soft ground etchings. The plates for this work were divided between… Read more about this item

New York: Wiley & Putnam, 1846. Hardcover. Orig. publisher's, forest green cloth. Very good. 594 pages. 20 x 12.4 cm. More than 210 text illustrations. Extensive Index to the Different Fruits. General Index. Abbreviations and Books Quoted.Downing notes, "there are more peaches exposed in the markets of New York, annually, than are raised in all of France;" a… Read more about this item

New York: George E. & F.W. Woodward, 1865. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. charcoal cloth decorated in blind, backstrip lettered in gilt. Fine. 139, (iii) pages. 19 x 13 cm. 59 illustrated wood engravings. This work being an extension of his "domestic vernacular" applied to garden buildings. Considered to be one the scarcest of his pattern books. HITCHCOCK. 1433.… Read more about this item

Northampton: Gehenna Press, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. navy portfolio housed in folding box, striped front cover and back cover matching navy colored portfolio. Fine. Baskin, Leonard. Oblong folio. 28.7 x 37 cm. One of 50 copies. The 65 individual sheets, signed woodcuts and linoleum cuts by Baskin printed in black, blue, red and green ink on semi-transparent… Read more about this item

Paris: Ch. Massin & Cie, 1921. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. three quarter black cloth with ties and green boards lettered in gilt with front cover pictorial inlays. Near fine. 2 Vols. 23 pages. 44.5 x 32 cm. Title page printed in red and black. 44 collotype plates printed from photographs. Among the fine gardens here presented are those… Read more about this item

Salem: Peabody Museum, 1938. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth spine lettered in gilt. Fine. xii, 110 pages. 25.5 x 18 cm. Limited edition, one of 400 on special rag paper printed by the Southworth Anthoensen Press. An historical overview of the Pond with the source material first collected by Arthur C. Pickering. Illustrated with photographs. Appendices. As… Read more about this item

London: B.T. Batsford, 1902. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. decorated boards. Very good. 3 Vols. XXIV, 63, (1). Folio, 43 x 33 cm. Illustrated by seventy-two plates from drawings by the Author and Fifty-three by Charles Latham, collotypes from photographs. Title page printed in red and black, interior contents clean. Six page Subscriber's List. Many full page plates with… Read more about this item

Newcastle: Sol, Hodgson, For Beilby & Bewick, 1804. First editions. leather_bound. Rebacked, full brown diced morocco covers. Very good. 2 vols. Bewick, Thomas. 335, 400 pages. 24 x 14.5 cm. Voluminously illustrated with wood-engravings. The first volume of this work was published in 1797 for which Beilby furnished the written descriptions with Bewick providing the text of the… Read more about this item

Newcastle: J. Hodgson, 1827. First edition. Hardcover. Later brown cloth, brown leathe spine labe lettered in gilt. Very good. xxii, [2] 312 pages. 23 x 15 cm. llustrated with engraved frontispiece, folding table, 7 plates (2 of which by Thomas Bewick), and illustrations in the text. Provenance: Author to son Charles Fox with inscription dated 1830 gifted from… Read more about this item

New York: Calaway Editions, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. illustrated boards. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 144 pages. 35 x 27.5 cm. Located outside Atlanta,Georgia and noted as the largest public garden in the world,also contains the largest azalea garden in existence. The gardens span fourteen thousand acres housing a butterfly center and a horticultural center and vegetable… Read more about this item

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1980. Hardcover. Orig. full blue buckram stamped in gold and in blind. Fine in near fine slipcase. Eisenstaedt, Alfred. 284 pages. 26 x 18 cm. Limited edition, copy 752 of 2000. Color photographs by Eisenstaedt printed by Princeton Poly-chrome Press, and designed by Philip Grushkin. NEWMAN & WICHE 515. Laid-in the LEC Monthly… Read more about this item

Washington DC: National Geographic Society, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. red cloth decorated and lettered in silver. Near fine. 518 pages. 412 color photographs. List of Authors. Bibliography and Index.

London: Pavilion, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 192 pages. 26 x 26.5 cm. Profusely illustrated with color photographs. Bibliography. Plant Index. The author is also a well known food writer.

New York: Rizzoli, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth. Fine in near fine dust wrapper. 160 pages. 29 x 24 cm. Profusely illustrated mostly in color. Presents botanical, contemporary and various garden styles, plus gardens open to the public. Index. Bibliography.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth. Fine in faded and nicked dust wrapper. 299 pages. 32 x 25.5 cm. Forty color pates, 350 in monochrome, plus documentary drawings and engravings to show how they appeared in previous centuries. Formal gardens in Europe and America are presented.

Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1979. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. illustrated gray stiff wrappers. Near fine. Adams, Ansel. 28 pages in text. 22.5 x 28.5 cm. Introduction by Paul Brooks. Illustrated with 116 reproductions of Adams photographs, all taken in the Sierra Nevada. Photographs of Yosemite National Park are specified as taken in Yosemite Valley.