Gardens, landscape architectureThere are 16 items
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Views of fountains, statuary and architecture in the Grand-Ducal gardens at Schloß Schlackenwerth, Bohemia
Bohemia?, c. 1642A group of extremely rare prints depicting the gardens at Schlackenwerth, in north-western Bohemia (now Ostrov, Czech Republic), a property belonging Julius Heinrich von Sachsen-Lauenburg (1581-1665). Lesche, a “Gartenarchitekt und Wassertechniker”, apparently produced the matrices at the behest of Julius Heinrich, not with commercial intentions. -
Plans and views of the gardens at Kassel-Weissenstein
Kassel, Wolfgang Christoph Mayr, c. 1750A fine suite of four numbered prints recording the extensive gardens on the Karlsberg, a broad hillside which rises above Kassel, the seat of the Landgraves of Hesse-Kassel seven kilometres away.
Offered with four associated prints, also engraved and published by Wolfgang Christoph Mayr, and struck on untrimmed sheets of the same paper, depicting the grotto in the gardens of Schloß Wilhelmsthal, a summer residence in the village of Calden near Kassel, and the Karlsaue, a three kilometre-long garden on the left bank of the Fulda.
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Parks and chateaux of France
Paris, [Commissariat général au tourisme], 1960(15 × 21 cm), 97 (7) pp., illustrations (some in colour). Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Alphabetical catalogue with useful historical notes. ¶ Good, unmarked copy. -
Heavenly caves : reflections on the garden grotto (World Landscape Art & Architecture Series)
New York, George Braziller, 1962(25.5 cm), (2) 141 (1) pp., 122 text illustrations. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - History of the garden grotto. ¶ Fine copy. -
Boboli gardens
Florence, Editrice Edam, 1972(24 cm), 126 pp., 73 plates (one folding) with 234 figs. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Two essays, a catalogue of sculptures and other objects in the garden, and transcriptions of archival documents. In English with Italian summary. ¶ Excellent copy. -
Inhabitants of the enchanted isle : pleasure gardens in the Age of Grandeur (catalogue of an exhibition held at the University Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 24 April-5 June 1975)
Minneapolis, University of Minnesota, 1975(23.5 cm), 72 pp., 8 black & white illustrations. 59 catalogue entries. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Catalogue for an exhibition of prints, ceramics, textiles, sculpture, etc. Entries by Mary Jackson and Cynthia M. Clow. ¶ Pencil notes on title-page. Good copy. -
Fons sapientiae : garden fountains in illustrated books, sixteenth-eighteenth centuries (catalogue of an exhibition held at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, Washington, DC, 30 April-30 June 1977)
Washington, DC, Dumbarton Oaks, 1977(23 cm), xii, 84 pp., illustrations. 36 catalogue entries. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Exhibition in conjunction with the 5th Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture. Entries by Naomi Miller, with bibliographical research by Laura Byers. ¶ Very good, unmarked copy. -
The French garden 1500-1800 (World Landscape Art & Architecture Series)
New York, George Braziller, 1979(25.5 cm), 159 (1) pp., illustrations. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. ¶ Very good, unmarked copy. -
The Anglo-Dutch Garden in the Age of William & Mary / De Gouden Eeuw van de Hollandse Tuinkunst (catalogue of an exhibition held at the Rijksmuseum Paleis Het Loo, Apeldoorn, [1988]; and Christie's, London, 3 January-3 February 1989)
London, Taylor & Francis, 1988(22.5 × 28.5 cm), (2) vi, 341 (3) pp., with 189 illustrations (some in colour). 180 catalogue entries. Publisher’s cloth, dust jacket. - The catalogue features numerous 17th century books and suites of prints documenting Dutch country estates. Text in English and Dutch. Published as a special double issue of The Journal of Garden History, volume 8, nos. 2-3, April-September 1988. ¶ Excellent, unmarked copy. -
Gardens on paper : prints and drawings, 1200-1900 (catalogue of an exhibition held at the National Gallery of Art, 1 April-22 July 1990)
Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art / University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990(29.5 cm), 179 pp., numerous illustrations (28 in colour). 106 catalogue entries. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - “The five chapters trace the theme of the garden as it developed in Western art from the ‘Middle Ages’ (here, with one exception, exclusively fifteenth-century examples) through to the nineteenth century. Prints, either separate sheets or book illustrations, account for the better part of the illustrations, especially for the early periods, with drawings and watercolours appearing more often in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century discussions” (Print Quarterly, volume 8, March 1991, p.67). ¶ Very good, unmarked copy. -
The History of garden design : the Western traditions from the Renaissance to the present day
London, Thames & Hudson, 1991(29 cm), 543 (1) pp., 652 illustrations, including 129 colour plates. Publisher’s cloth, pictorial dust jacket. - 76 texts by 64 specialists, some focusing on specific publications: Françoise Boudon (Illustrations of Gardens in the Sixteenth Century: “The Most Excellent Buildings in France”; Garden History and Cartography), Ulbe Martin Mehrtens (Johan Vredeman de Vries and the Hortorum Formae), Reinhard Zimmermann (Hortus Palatinus of Salomon de Caus), Dorothee Nehring (Garden Designs of Joseph Furttenbach the Elder), Maurizio Gargano (Villas, Gardens and Fountains of Rome: The Etchings of Giovanni Battista Falda), etc. ¶ Dust jacket worn at extremities; otherwise a very good, unmarked copy. -
[Gallery catalogues, hors série] Les plaisirs du jardinage. French garden design 1661-1860 (gallery exhibition catalogue, 27 October 19 November 1993)
London, Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, 1993(24.5 cm), 38 pp., illustrations (some in colour). 25 catalogue entries. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Selling exhibition of drawings for gardens and garden buildings, from the 17th century to c. 1860. The majority of the drawings are from the Lodewijk Houthakker collection. ¶ As new. -
[Gallery catalogues, hors série] Les plaisirs du jardinage. French garden design 1661-1860 (gallery exhibition catalogue, 27 October 19 November 1993)
London, Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, 1993(24.5 cm), 38 pp., illustrations (some in colour). 25 catalogue entries. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Selling exhibition of drawings for gardens and garden buildings, from the 17th century to c. 1860. The majority of the drawings are from the Lodewijk Houthakker collection. ¶ As new. -
Die Geschichte der Karlsaue in Kassel : Planungsgeschichte und Bestandserfassung. Teil I : Von Renaissancegarten zum Barock- und Rokokopark
Worms, Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, 1996In: Die Gartenkunst, volume 8 (1996), pp.29-58. ¶ Unmarked copy. -
Time to travel-travel in time to Germany's finest stately homes, gardens, castles, abbeys and Roman remains : official joint guide of the heritage administrations Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Berlin-Brandenburg, Dessau-Wörlitz, Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia
Regensburg, Schnell & Steiner, 1999(28 cm), 256 pp., illustrations (most in colour). Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Guidebook to historical buildings and gardens with useful notes. First edition (reprinted 2001, 2003, etc.). ¶ Fine, unmarked copy. -
[Stock catalogues, unnumbered series] British gardening books
London, Bernard J. Shapero Rare Books, 2005(23.5 cm), 120 (4) pp., illustrations (most in colour). 174 items; priced. Publisher’s pictorial self-wrappers. ¶ As issued.
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