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.
London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1764-1769. First edition. Works of poet and noted landscape theorist of the picturesque. Read More about The Works in Verse and Prose of William Shenstone, Esq; Most of which were never before printed
Price: $400
Paris: Bureau des Galeries Historiques, nd (c.1870). First Edition. Read More about Versailles: Palais, Musee, Jardins
Price: $175
London: Country Life, 1914. Second printing. Read More about Houses and Gardens by E.L. Lutyens
Price: $150
London: Macmillan, 1896. First edition. Read More about The London Pleasure Gardens
Price: $200