New Improvements of Planting and Gardening, both Philosophical and...
London: Printed for W. Mears, 1726. Fifth edition, with an Appendix. Read More about New Improvements of Planting and Gardening, both Philosophical and Practical
Price: $750
Landscape & Gardening
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.
53 Hand-Colored Floral Plates
Nederlandsch Bloemwerk door een Gezelschap geleerden.
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 about Nederlandsch Bloemwerk door een Gezelschap geleerden
Price: $11,500
First Annual Report of the Board of Commissioners of...
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 about First Annual Report of the Board of Commissioners of the Department of Public Parks for the Year...
Price: $1,500
Edwin A. Stevens Copy
The Horticulurist and Journal of Rural Art and Rural...
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 about The Horticulurist and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste. Devoted to Horticulture, Landscape...
Price: $750
From the Great French Advocate of the Tree
Des Semis et Plantations des Arbres, et de leur...
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 about Des Semis et Plantations des Arbres, et de leur culture ; ou méthode pour multiplier et élever...
Price: $3,000
The Gardener's Pocket-calendar containing the most approved methods of...
London: Printed for Richardson and Urquhart, 1776. First edition. A gardening manual arranged according to the months of the year. The author, Thomas Ellis, was gardener to Lord Bishop of Lincoln. Read More about The Gardener's Pocket-calendar containing the most approved methods of cultivating the useful and...
Price: $1,250
Neue Garten-Lust: das ist Gründliche Vorstellung wie ein Lust-Küchen...
[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 about Neue Garten-Lust: das ist Gründliche Vorstellung wie ein Lust-Küchen und Baum Garten unter...
Price: $12,500
Cottage Gardening.
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 about Cottage Gardening
Price: $125
The Green-House Companion; comprisinig a general course of green-house...
London: Harding, Triphook and Lepard, 1825. Second Edition. Read More about The Green-House Companion; comprisinig a general course of green-house and conservatory practice...
Price: $400
La Gazette Illustrée des Amateurs de Jardins Années MCMXXXVI-MCMXXXVII...
Paris: Henry Soulangfe-Bodin, 1927. #241 of 300 copies. Read More about La Gazette Illustrée des Amateurs de Jardins Années MCMXXXVI-MCMXXXVII. Coup d'Oeil sur les...
Price: $450
Homage to Rousseau: the English Garden at Ermenonville
Promenade ou Itinéraire des Jardins d'Ermenonville.
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 about Promenade ou Itinéraire des Jardins d'Ermenonville
Price: $3,000
American Greenhouses. Pronounced Agemco. AGMCo. Everyhouse a Gem.
Chicago: American Greenhouse Mfg. Corp. Sucessors, [c. 1928]. First edition, but with new publisher's label pasted over bottom of title page. Read More about American Greenhouses. Pronounced Agemco. AGMCo. Everyhouse a Gem
Price: $500
When Chinoiserie was all the Rage
Rural Architecture in the Chinese Taste being designs entirely...
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 about Rural Architecture in the Chinese Taste being designs entirely new for the decoration of gardens,...
Price: $3,000
First Edition of an Early Work on Fruit Cultivation
The Fruit-Garden Kalendar: or, a Summary of the Art...
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 about The Fruit-Garden Kalendar: or, a Summary of the Art of Managing the Fruit-Garden…Containing...
Price: $450
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[A Booke of the Arte and Manner How to...
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 about A Booke of the Arte and Manner How to Plant and Graffe All Sorts of Trees …
Price: $1,500
The English Garden. A Poem. In Four Books. A....
York: Printed by A. Ward and sold by J. Dodsley, 1783. New edition, but first with the Notes by Burgh. Read More about The English Garden. A Poem. In Four Books. A New Edition, corrected. To which are added a...
Price: $350
Five vintage photographs of the preparations for an outdoor...
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 about Five vintage photographs of the preparations for an outdoor party on the grounds of the Richard...
Price: $500
The Florist and Pomologist, and Suburban Gardener. A Pictorial...
London: Published for the Propietors, by Messrs Kent & Co, 1880. Read More about The Florist and Pomologist, and Suburban Gardener. A Pictorial Monthly Magazine of Flowers,...
Price: $650
The Planter's Kalender; or the Nurseryman's and Forester's Guide...Edited...
London: Archibald Constable and Company, 1820. Second edition. Read More about The Planter's Kalender; or the Nurseryman's and Forester's Guide...Edited and Collected by Edward...
Price: $450
Edition De Luxe, One of 100 Copies
Oxford: Its Buildings and Gardens.
London: Grant Richards, 1909. Wildman, William A. Edition de luxe, No. 28 of 100 copies. Edition De Luxe, One of 100 Copies. Read More about Oxford: Its Buildings and Gardens
Price: $225
Flora Historica: or the Three Seasons of the British...
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 about Flora Historica: or the Three Seasons of the British Parterre…with observations on planting, to...
Price: $750
First Edition, Uncut in Original Boards
Sylva Florifera: The Shrubbery Historically and Botanically Treated; with...
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 about Sylva Florifera: The Shrubbery Historically and Botanically Treated; with observations on the...
Price: $600
The Old English Gardening Books.
London: Martin Hopkinson, 1924. First Edition. Read More about The Old English Gardening Books
Price: $175
Batiments et Jardins. Exposition des Arts Décoratifs Paris 1925.
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 about Batiments et Jardins. Exposition des Arts Décoratifs Paris 1925
Price: $500
Observations sur L'Agriculture et Le Jardinage.
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 about Observations sur L'Agriculture et Le Jardinage
Price: $500