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96, [106] ads, pages. Profusely illustrated with black and white photos and drawings. Printed upon glossy stock. The many pages of ads include an abundance of nostalgic photos and illustrations. Features: The Holy Rosary Church, Dayton, Ohio; Shadows of the Chateaux; Architectural Treatment of Rapid Transit Stations in New York City; The United States Housing Corporation Project No. 59, at Bath, Maine; Modern Industrial Plants - Part III; Union Park Gardens - a Model Garden Suburb at Wilmington, Delaware; Portfolio of Current Architecture; Furniture of the Italian Renaissance; The Architect's Library - Recent French Books; Notes and Comments. Unmarked with somewhat above-average external wear. Binding intact. Two small binding holes near spine. A worthy copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Book
In-8, broché, couverture imprimée, 66 p., texte sur deux colonnes. Edition originale. Envoi autographe signé à M. Georges Goyon, secrétaire perpétuel de l'Académie française.
Montpellier sans date, vers 1900. In-8 broché, 30 pages. Trés bon état.
290 pages including index and black and white plates. Smythe was owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs. As fascinating and outspoken as the man himself, here is the story of a rocky childhood in turn-of-the-century Toronto. Smythe grew slowly but surely into the realization that his drive and intelligence could take him wherever he wanted to go. Top portion of half-title page removed. Rubber stamps and writing upon title page. Spine leaning. Average wear to book. Above-average wear to price-clipped dust jacket. Decent reading copy. Book
12 page board book. A "What's in the Hole?" book. When your encourage your child to find the hole on each page of this book and say what's inside it, you are also helping your little one learn to look closely at the page. Average wear. Soiling to back board. Binding intact. Ready to please more young readers-in-training. Book
xii + 555pp., "neue Ausgabe", original yellow softcover, German text in gotic script, 23cm., some foxing in text (always well readable though) else in very good condition, rare, W79723
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 53pp. History and description of the garden and buildings at Westbury Court, Gloucestershire. Value added with the inclusion of four tipped-in postcards and photographs of the gardens.
1st edition. Good in marked green cloth with black decoration and lettering. 11994. eng
Mm 210x280 Volume di pp. XVI-358, piena tela verde con titolo e fregi in oro al piatto anteriore e al dorso, 176 tavole in bianco e nero nel testo, VIII tavole a colori che raffigurano diversi giardini individuati per stato d'appartenenza, 26 in tutto. Cerniera leggermente allentata, ma in buono stato complessivo. SPEDIZIONE IN 24 ORE DALLA CONFERMA DELL'ORDINE. WORLDWIDE DELIVERY
276pp. Paperback Very good condition
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with very minor traces of storage. 128pp. A complete guide to growing, drying and arranging flowers with a compendium of over a hundred plants suitable for drying.
2 volumes, demi-veau bleu nuit à coins, dos lisses ornés en long de fers rocaille, tranches cailloutées frontispices, CXCII+672 + XLIV-948 pp., 17 pl 1804-1805, 1804-1805, in-4, 2 volumes, demi-veau bleu nuit à coins, dos lisses ornés en long de fers rocaille, tranches cailloutées, frontispices, CXCII+672 + XLIV-948 pp, 17 pl, Portrait de l'auteur gravé par B. Roger et obélisque à sa mémoire, en frontispice du tome 2. Les planches, gravées sur cuivre, représentent une meule à courant d'air, des parterres et des plans de jardins. 2 vignettes gravées par Ponce d'après Maréchal et Marillier. Texte sur 2 colonnes. Premier grand traité français d'agronomie, publié initialement en 1600. "La prose de Serres, dans le sillage de Montaigne et de Saint François de Sales, est claire et belle. Le titre du Théâtre d'agriculture, composé de deux groupes de mots usuels unis de façon heureuse et inattendue, dénote une haute maîtrise de la langue. Plus de vingt éditions successives en attestent le succès" (En français dans le texte). Surnommé le père de l'agriculture française, Olivier de Serres nous offre ici une excellente compilation des connaissances de l'agriculture de son temps. Divisé en 8 parties, l'ouvrage traite de la culture de la terre, de la vigne, du blé, du bétail et de la volaille, du jardin potager et fruitier, et enfin de l'usage des aliments et des recettes pour les agrémenter. Cette édition est, avec la première, une des plus estimées (Vicaire). Petites épidermures, coins usés. Bon état intérieur, malgré des pages gondolées. Vicaire p. 789 ; Bitting, p.430
250 pages including index. "A sumptuous tour of 19 American and English gardens from small to majestic with detailed watercolor plans and 400 gorgeous full-color photographs." - from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Dust jacket in protective brodart cover. Excellent copy. Book
In-8, broché, couverture imprimée, 276 p. Édition originale.
In-8, broché, couverture papier bleu fort (rel. moderne), (4), iv, 91 p. Première et unique traduction française de 'Saggio sopra il commercio generale delle nazioni d'Europa'. Historien et économiste, Saverio Scròfani (Modica 1756 - Palerme 1835) était un adepte convaincu des Physiocrates dont on retrouve les doctrines dans cet essai, particulièrement en matière de liberté du commerce des grains. Alors professeur d'agriculture à Venise et surintendant de l'agriculture et le commerce avec le Levant., l’auteur passa à Paris, puis à Naples où il devint directeur de la statistique (1814-22), poste dont il fut démis pour ses opinions libérales. Tableaux statistiques. (Coquelin & Guillaumin, II, 601. Goldsmiths-Kress, n°18239.17). Larges auréoles et traces de mouillures. Accrocs et manques de papier aux 3 premiers feuillets sans perte de texte.
Book is in excellent condition with very light edge wear only. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind and is in impressively fine condition with tipped-in color plates and b&w prints, map endpapers showing the locations of the text. Dust jacket is price clipped and is extensively repaired at edges with scotch tape. Contents include The pleasure gardens, White conduit house, Marylebone gardens, Jenny's whim, Bagnigge wells, Islington spa, Sadler's wells, Highbury barn, Bermondsey spa, The English grotto, Finch's grotto gardens, Florida gardens, The Yorkshire stingo, etc.
26 pages. Features: Photo of Nanaimo's "Queen Victoria"; Great assortment of local ads; Getting Wired II - Second of a two-part series on communicating using computers in the Nanaimo area, with photo of Mayor Gary Korpan at the keyboard; Gardens of Earthly Delights - Bringing our backyards to Life, by Alison Watt, with photo of local naturalist Bill Merilees; Short photo-illustrated article on the Hogle House which sits atop Nanaimo's Nob Hill; Is Prostitution a Problem in Nanaimo?, view from the left by Jean Blackburn and view from the right by Larry Hume; Nice full-page colour ad for Cameron Island, Phase II inside back cover; and more. Moderate wear. Few small openings to/chips from front cover. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
pp. 349, (39) color plates illustrated by Violette Niestle. Line illustrations by Paul Schauenberg. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket, price clipped. Hardbound. Nice copy of an authoritive work on the subject. PLANTS W130
Paris, Chez Debure, 1767. In-8 relié plein veau de l'époque, dos à nerfs très orné, piéce de titre rouge, tranches rouges. LXXVII + 531 pages. Coins très légèrement émoussés, éraflures sur le 2ème plat. Très bon exemplaire malgré les défauts signalés sans grande gravité.
1ère édition de cet ouvrage de l'architecte et éditrice Sylvia SAUDAN-SKIRA et de l'architecte et photographe Michel SAUDAN: architecture, décors et fonctions, entre agrément et utilité, de l'orangerie, initialement "serre à orangers", simple abri utilitaire, devenue l' "orangerie" des traités d'architecture du XVIIè siècle, pavillon de plaisance, pavillon galant ou cabinet de curiosités, puis serres et conservatoires ou éphémère renaissance nostalgique du XIXè siècle; nombreux exemples décrits, français, britanniques ou allemands; riche iconographie: photos et reproductions de gravures et peintures anciennes (jardins, orangeries, flore); index des noms et lieux; notes et références; bibliographie. Exemplaire bien complet de ses jaquette et étui. Français
237 pages. Index, bibliography and list of illustrations. Lavishly illustrated with colour photography and black and white illustrations. "Follows in the footsteps of those who designed and constructed the great gardens of Europe and those who over the centuries have found pleasure in them. Through new and previously unpublished photos, this beautiful volume re-creates the atmosphere the owners and their guests must have felt as they walked through the gardens, and captures the fleeting, ephemeral moment that is a garden." - from dust jacket. English translation of the French first edition, "De folie en folies". Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Slight lean to spine. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Lovely copy of this beautiful work. Book
In-4, 231p. Les plus beaux jardins d'Italie, de France, d'Allemagne et d'Angleterre depuis la Renaissance, en 242 illustrations, plans, dessins, tableaux et gravures. A l'état de neuf.
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 206 pages; many illustrations.
20x21 cm, brossura illustrata; pp. (24), numerose illustrazioni in nero e a colori
24,5x17,5. 221p. 6 láms. Prólog. F. García Sánchiz. Fotogr.
