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An Oak Spring Sylva : a selection of the rare books on trees in the Oak Spring Garden Library (Oak Spring Garden Library catalogues, 1) § An Oak Spring Pomona : a selection of the rare books on fruit in the Oak Spring Garden Library (Oak Spring Garden Library catalogues, 2) § An Oak Spring Flora : flower illustration from the fifteenth century to the present time : a selection of the rare books, manuscripts and works of art in the collection of Rachel Lambert Mellon (Oak Spring Garden Library catalogues, 3) § An Oak Spring Herbaria : herbs and herbals from the fourteenth to the nineteenth centuries : a selection of the rare books, manuscripts and works of art in the collection of Rachel Lambert Mellon (Oak Spring Garden Library catalogues, 4)
Upperville, VA, Oak Spring Garden Library / Yale University Press, 1989-2009
Four volumes (30 cm), as issued, in publisher’s cloth bindings, pictorial dust jackets. - A descriptive catalogue of the books, manuscripts, and drawings collected by Rachel Lambert Mellon (1910-2014). ¶ Fine, unmarked copies.
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- Subjects
- Private libraries - Mellon (Rachel Lambert), 1910-2014
- Science books - Botany - Collections, USA - Oak Spring Garden Library
- Authors/Creators
- Argetsinger, Mark, editor
- Chien, Lisa, translator
- Oak Spring Garden Library (Upperville, VA)
- Raphael, Sandra
- Tongiorgi Tomasi, Lucia, born 1939
- Willis, Tony, co-author
- Owners
- Mellon, Rachel Lambert, 1910-2014
- ISBN
- 0300046529
- 0300046529 (vol.1)
- 0300049366
- 0300049366 (vol. 2)
- 0965450805
- 0965450805 (vol. 3)
- 0965450813
- 9780300046526
- 9780300046526 (vol. 1)
- 9780300049367
- 9780300049367 (vol. 2)
- 9780300049367 (vol. 3)
- 9780965450805
- 9780965450812
- 9780965450812 (vol. 4)
- 9780965450812 (vol.4)
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Oak Spring Garden Library (Upperville, VA)
Raphael (Sandra)An Oak Spring Sylva : a selection of the rare books on trees in the Oak Spring Garden Library (Oak Spring Garden Library catalogues, 1)
Upperville, VA, Oak Spring Garden Library / Yale University Press, 1989(30 cm), xxvii (1), 147 (3) pp., illustrations (some in colour). Publisher’s cloth, pictorial dust jacket. - The first volume of a descriptive catalogue of the books, manuscripts, and drawings collected by Rachel Lambert Mellon (1910-2014). Devoted to trees (excluding fruit trees), it describes nearly 50 items, the earliest Jean du Choul’s De varia Quercus historia (1555). Each book is given a complete bibliographical description and is supported by a biography of its author and assessment of its importance or significance. ¶ Fine, unmarked copy.- Subjects
- Private libraries - Mellon (Rachel Lambert), 1910-2014
- Science books - Botany - Collections, USA - Oak Spring Garden Library
- Authors/Creators
- Oak Spring Garden Library (Upperville, VA)
- Raphael, Sandra
- Owners
- Mellon, Rachel Lambert, 1910-2014
- ISBN
- 0300046529
- 9780300046526
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Oak Spring Garden Library (Upperville, VA)
Raphael (Sandra)An Oak Spring Pomona : a selection of the rare books on fruit in the Oak Spring Garden Library (Oak Spring Garden Library catalogues, 2)
Upperville, VA, Oak Spring Garden Library / Yale University Press, 1990(30 cm), xxxii (4), 276 (2) pp., illustrations (some in colour). Publisher’s cloth binding, pictorial dust jacket. - Describes 100 books and manuscripts, the earliest Marco Bussato, Giardino di agricoltura (Venice 1592). ¶ Fine, unmarked copy.- Subjects
- Private libraries - Mellon (Rachel Lambert), 1910-2014
- Science books - Botany - Collections, USA - Oak Spring Garden Library
- Authors/Creators
- Oak Spring Garden Library (Upperville, VA)
- Raphael, Sandra
- Owners
- Mellon, Rachel Lambert, 1910-2014
- ISBN
- 0300049366
- 9780300049367
-
Oak Spring Garden Library (Upperville, VA)
Tongiorgi Tomasi (Lucia), born 1939; Chien (Lisa), translatorAn Oak Spring Flora : flower illustration from the fifteenth century to the present time : a selection of the rare books, manuscripts and works of art in the collection of Rachel Lambert Mellon (Oak Spring Garden Library catalogues, 3)
Upperville, VA, Oak Spring Garden Library / Yale University Press, 1997(30 cm), lxxiii (1), 427 (3) pp., illustrations (some in colour). Publisher’s cloth, pictorial dust jacket. - Describes 111 books, manuscripts, and other works of art. The author, professor of art history at the University of Siena and an authority on flower illustration, commences her account of the evolution of floral imagery with a Books of Hours containing miniatures enclosed within floral borders, written c. 1435, once belonging to Vittoria, wife of Guidobaldo II della Rovere, Duke of Urbino. The bibliographical descriptions are by Julia Dupuis Blakely. ¶ Fine, unmarked copy.- Subjects
- Private libraries - Mellon (Rachel Lambert), 1910-2014
- Science books - Botany - Collections, USA - Oak Spring Garden Library
- Authors/Creators
- Chien, Lisa, translator
- Oak Spring Garden Library (Upperville, VA)
- Tongiorgi Tomasi, Lucia, born 1939
- Owners
- Mellon, Rachel Lambert, 1910-2014
- ISBN
- 0965450805
- 9780965450805
-
Oak Spring Garden Library (Upperville, VA)
Tongiorgi Tomasi (Lucia), born 1939; Willis (Tony); Chien (Lisa), translator; Argetsinger (Mark), editorAn Oak Spring Herbaria : herbs and herbals from the fourteenth to the nineteenth centuries : a selection of the rare books, manuscripts and works of art in the collection of Rachel Lambert Mellon
Upperville, VA, Oak Spring Garden Library, 2009(30 cm), lviii, 394 (4) pp., colour illustrations. Publisher’s cloth, pictorial dust jacket. - The fourth - and perhaps final - volume of a catalogue of Rachel Lambert Mellon’s library at Oak Spring, Upperville, Virginia. The catalogue is organised in eight sections: Late Medieval herbals; The Great age of Renaissance botany; Herbals and plants from distant lands; Herbals by herbalists, pharmacists, and physicians; Herbals of the botanical gardens and private gardens of Europe; Curious and strange herbals; Dried specimens and nature printing; American herbals (these last described by Mark Argetsinger). 63 catalogue entries. ¶ Fine, unmarked copy.- Subjects
- Private libraries - Mellon (Rachel Lambert), 1910-2014
- Science books - Botany - Collections, USA - Oak Spring Garden Library
- Authors/Creators
- Argetsinger, Mark, editor
- Chien, Lisa, translator
- Oak Spring Garden Library (Upperville, VA)
- Tongiorgi Tomasi, Lucia, born 1939
- Willis, Tony, co-author
- Owners
- Mellon, Rachel Lambert, 1910-2014
- ISBN
- 0965450813
- 9780965450812
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