From our gallery next to Central Park, where the leaves are still green on the trees, James Cummins Bookseller is happy to share a selection of books on Landscape & Gardening. Among the highlights is Neue Garten-Lust, the most significant late 17th Century German book on gardening; Nederlandsch Bloemwerk, a beautiful 18th Century book hand-colored plate book on Dutch Horticulture, A.J. Dezallier's Theory and Practice of Gardening, the first important book on gardening to appear in England in the 18th Century; Des Semis et Plantations des Arbres by Duhamel du Monceau, one of France's great advocates for the tree; a beautiful copy of the classic illustrated account of Girardin's famous "English garden", among the earliest on the continent; Halfpenny's book on Chinoiserie in landscape architecture; a very rare deluxe issue of Shepherd and Jellicoe's classic work on the Italian formal garden, with 92 collotype plates; the First Annual Report of the Board of Commissioners of the Department of Public Parks for the Year ending May 1, 1871, a detailed report on the early years of Central Park; and a number of other rare and significant books in landscape design and architecture, gardens and gardening, horticulture, and even a few on agriculture.
Price: $750
London: Printed for W. Mears, 1726. Fifth edition, with an Appendix. Read More Item Details for New Improvements of Planting and Gardening, both Philosophical and Practical Add to Wish List
Item #248433
Price: $11,500
Amsterdam: T.B. Elwe, 1794. First edition. 53 Hand-Colored Floral Plates. A lovely copy of the first edition. This significant contribution to late eighteenth-century botanical art ably demonstrates the superiority of Dutch horticulture in the period. The 53 plates include stunning illustrations of tulips, hyacinths and auriculas, many of them further..... Read More Item Details for Nederlandsch Bloemwerk door een Gezelschap geleerden Add to Wish List
Item #300498
Price: $1,500
New York: William C. Bryant & Co, 1871. First edition. The report offers detailed information on the early years of Central Park, including a large folding map and guide. It includes appendices with the “Legal History of the Jurisdiction of the Department of Public Parks”; a report of the comptroller..... Read More Item Details for First Annual Report of the Board of Commissioners of the Department of Public Parks for the Year ending May 1, 1871 Add to Wish List
Item #323645
Price: $750
Albany, New York: Published by Luther Tucker, June 1846-June 1848. Edwin A. Stevens Copy. Compendium of information about horticulture in America at the midpoint of the nineteenth century, with wood-engraved illustrations touching upon fruit growning, trees, rural cottages, landscape architecture, and more. With a distinguished and interesting provenance: the ownership..... Read More Item Details for The Horticulurist and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste. Devoted to Horticulture, Landscape Gardening, Rural Architecture, Botany, Pomology, Entomology, Rural Economy, &c. Volumes I & II. [Spine title:] Downing’s Horticulture Add to Wish List
Item #231007
Price: $3,000
Paris: H. L Guérin et L. F. Delatour, 1760. First edition. From the Great French Advocate of the Tree. Important work on the cultivation of trees by this prolific 18th-century polymath and savant (1700-1782), member of the Royal Academy, who published over 100 separate during his prolific lifetime, on a...... Read More Item Details for Des Semis et Plantations des Arbres, et de leur culture ; ou méthode pour multiplier et élever les arbres, les planter en massifs et en avenues ; former les forets et les bois ; les entretenir, et rétablir ceux qui sont dégradés : faisant partie du Traité complet des bois et des forêts Add to Wish List
Item #212277
Price: $12,500
[Leipzig]: Moriss Georg Weidmann, 1690. First edition. First edition of the most important late seventeenth century German work on gardening, by Heinrich Hesse, overseer of the Electoral Gardens in Mainz, who specifically adapted French notions of garden design to German conditions, and whose work remained influential through the mid-eighteenth century..... Read More Item Details for Neue Garten-Lust: das ist Gründliche Vorstellung wie ein Lust-Küchen und Baum Garten unter unserem Teutschen Climate füglich anzurichten Add to Wish List
Item #247685
Price: $125
London: Printed by Willoiam Clowes and Sons, 1844. Offprinted from the “Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England”. Following the passing of the Allotment system which provided a plot of land for laborers the author wished to provide the basic instructions necessary to grow a successful garden. He recommends..... Read More Item Details for Cottage Gardening Add to Wish List
Item #22909
Price: $400
London: Harding, Triphook and Lepard, 1825. Second Edition. Read More Item Details for The Green-House Companion; comprisinig a general course of green-house and conservatory practice throughout the year… Add to Wish List
Item #27802
Price: $450
Paris: Henry Soulangfe-Bodin, 1927. #241 of 300 copies. Read More Item Details for La Gazette Illustrée des Amateurs de Jardins Années MCMXXXVI-MCMXXXVII. Coup d'Oeil sur les Jardin de la Méditerranée Add to Wish List
Item #321138
Price: $3,000
Paris: Paris: Mérigot père, 1788. First edition. Homage to Rousseau: the English Garden at Ermenonville. Beautiful copy of this classic illustrated account of the famous "English garden" - among the earliest of its kind on the Continent - designed by the Marquis Louis-René de Girardin in honor of Jean-Jacques Rousseau..... Read More Item Details for Promenade ou Itinéraire des Jardins d'Ermenonville Add to Wish List
Item #229842
Price: $500
Chicago: American Greenhouse Mfg. Corp. Sucessors, [c. 1928]. First edition, but with new publisher's label pasted over bottom of title page. Read More Item Details for American Greenhouses. Pronounced Agemco. AGMCo. Everyhouse a Gem Add to Wish List
Item #233813
Price: $3,000
London: Printed for Robt. Sayer, 1755. Third edition, enlarged "with the Addition of Four Plates in Quarto" (first published in 1752). When Chinoiserie was all the Rage. The fashion for the Chinese style was initiated, according to Harris, by Frederick, the Prince of Wales, who in 1749 had a "House..... Read More Item Details for Rural Architecture in the Chinese Taste being designs entirely new for the decoration of gardens, parks, forests the 3d. edition. With the adition [sic] of 4 plates in quarto of roofs for Chinese and Indian Temples, the manner of fixing their ornaments, covering and carrying of the water, their cornices with the several members adjusted to regular proportion Add to Wish List
Item #244192
Price: $450
London: Printed for Bernard Lintot, 1718. First Edition. First Edition of an Early Work on Fruit Cultivation. John Laurence was the son of a country clergyman." His Kalender virtually replaced the parts of Evelyn's Kalendarium Hortense relating to fruit. " Raphael With instruction for each month's planting and propagation; includes..... Read More Item Details for The Fruit-Garden Kalendar: or, a Summary of the Art of Managing the Fruit-Garden…Containing several new and plain Directions, more particularly relating to the Vine Add to Wish List
Item #28851
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Price: $1,500
London: T. East for Thomas Wright, 1592. Later (?8th) edition, first published in 1569. Leonard Mascall was an English author and translator who became a clerk in the household of Matthew Parker, archibishop of Canterbury. He died in 1589, and is credited with several works on household management, gardening, animal..... Read More Item Details for [A Booke of the Arte and Manner How to Plant and Graffe All Sorts of Trees …] Add to Wish List
Item #305106
Price: $350
York: Printed by A. Ward and sold by J. Dodsley, 1783. New edition, but first with the Notes by Burgh. Read More Item Details for The English Garden. A Poem. In Four Books. A New Edition, corrected. To which are added a commentary and Notes by W. Burgh Add to Wish List
Item #37878
Price: $500
Pittsburgh: June 6, 1925. From a contemporary press account of the party in the Pittsburgh Index: "Tuesday night Mr. and Mrs. Richard Beatty Mellon, Miss Sarah Cordelia Mellon and Mr. Richard King Mellon entertained more than six hundred guests at an out door dance at their home in Fifth Avenue..... Read More Item Details for Five vintage photographs of the preparations for an outdoor party on the grounds of the Richard B. Mellon estate Add to Wish List
Item #317441
Price: $650
London: Published for the Propietors, by Messrs Kent & Co, 1880. Read More Item Details for The Florist and Pomologist, and Suburban Gardener. A Pictorial Monthly Magazine of Flowers, Fruits, and General Horticulture. 1880 Add to Wish List
Item #222714
Price: $450
London: Archibald Constable and Company, 1820. Second edition. Read More Item Details for The Planter's Kalender; or the Nurseryman's and Forester's Guide...Edited and Collected by Edward Sang Add to Wish List
Item #56177
Price: $225
London: Grant Richards, 1909. Wildman, William A. Edition de luxe, No. 28 of 100 copies. Edition De Luxe, One of 100 Copies. Read More Item Details for Oxford: Its Buildings and Gardens Add to Wish List
Item #27478
Price: $750
London: E. Lloyd, 1824. First Edition. Phillips (1775?-1838) was a Worthing banker, a Fellow of the Royal Horticultural Society, and the Linnaean Society, and the author of several botanical works including the History of Cultivated Vegetables. Read More Item Details for Flora Historica: or the Three Seasons of the British Parterre…with observations on planting, to secure a regular succession of flowers… Add to Wish List
Item #29199
Price: $600
London: Longman, Hurst, et al, 1823. First Edition. First Edition, Uncut in Original Boards. A guide to ornamental planting, hedges, and picturesque botanical effects. Phillips (1775?-1838) was a Worthing banker, a Fellow of the Royal Horticultural Society, and the Linnaean Society, and the author of several botanical works including the..... Read More Item Details for Sylva Florifera: The Shrubbery Historically and Botanically Treated; with observations on the formation of ornamental plantations and picturesque scenery Add to Wish List
Item #27289
Price: $175
London: Martin Hopkinson, 1924. First Edition. Read More Item Details for The Old English Gardening Books Add to Wish List
Item #27282
Price: $500
Paris: Éditions Albert Lévy, 1926. Art deco building and landscape architecture from 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes, the World's Fair of design – the first since the War – and the exhibition that defined Art Deco (an abbreviation of Art Décoratifs). With work by Patout, Plumet..... Read More Item Details for Batiments et Jardins. Exposition des Arts Décoratifs Paris 1925 Add to Wish List
Item #323494
Price: $500
Paris: Saugrain, 1740. Later edition. Written for new owners of country estates and for those who have developed an interest in improving the lands on their existing estates. Full of practical information, such as the ideal distances between sapling plantings for successful tree borders or fecund orchards. Various methods of..... Read More Item Details for Observations sur L'Agriculture et Le Jardinage Add to Wish List
Item #316758
Price: $400
London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1764-1769. First edition. Works of poet and noted landscape theorist of the picturesque. Read More Item Details for The Works in Verse and Prose of William Shenstone, Esq; Most of which were never before printed Add to Wish List
Item #221599