Gardening History

Softcover. Los Angeles, Augustan Reprint Society, reprint, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 48 pages with a fold-out plan, 2 other b&w plates. A facsimile reproduction of the 1745 publication. Introduction by Morris R. Brownell. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Rizzoli, 1st US, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 207 pages. Entertainingly idiosyncratic in its selection of material, this historical compendium of facts and fascinating lore takes off on a visual romp through the history of gardens. Rather than adhere to a conventional narrative format, Vercelloni--an Italian architect, city planner and landscape gardener--arranges his material as though it were a slide show, devoting each page to an image and accompanying text. Beginning with the "landscape" of the Ice Ages, forging ahead to the Renaissance and finally reaching contemporary times, the author presents a captivating grab-bag of information, covering such topics as the significance of flowers in Renaissance painting, the reasoning behind the 17th-century craze for tulips and the role of contemporary urban parks in society. With its strong visual orientation and pungent text, Vercelloni's "historical atlas" looks deftly and light-heartedly at humanity's ongoing love of gardens. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton Architectural Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 326 pages, illustrated with b&w photographs, several color plates and architectural drawings by Vitale. Foreword by Horace Havemeyer III. Ferruccio Vitale is America's forgotten landscape architect. Though his works like Skylands and Longwood Gardens are well known, his name has been eclipsed by his contemporary, Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. Yet Vitale's influence on the modern direction of landscape design and his promotion of it as a profession is arguably more significant than Olmsted's. His unique designs and philosophy, which challenged the then-dominant pictorial mode of landscape architecture, influenced generations of followers, and is still felt today. Vitale (1875-1933) developed his rationale designs, based on the principles of composition from the fine arts and architecture, in both civic commissions and, most notably, at the country estates of captains of industry and finance. He introduced an idealized and abstracted type of formal design that created beautiful spaces, structured large sites, and reflected informal and relaxed plant compositions. Ferruccio Vitale tours over 40 of his masterworks, photographed by some of the best landscape photographers of the time, including Samuel Gottscho. It recounts the compelling story of a life in the early twentieth century, influenced by immigrant dreams, social clubs, and professional connections, and its culmination in some of the greatest landscapes of the 20th century.

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton Architectural Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 326 pages, illustrated with b&w photographs, several color plates and architectural drawings by Vitale. Foreword by Horace Havemeyer III. Ferruccio Vitale is America's forgotten landscape architect. Though his works like Skylands and Longwood Gardens are well known, his name has been eclipsed by his contemporary, Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. Yet Vitale's influence on the modern direction of landscape design and his promotion of it as a profession is arguably more significant than Olmsted's. His unique designs and philosophy, which challenged the then-dominant pictorial mode of landscape architecture, influenced generations of followers, and is still felt today. Vitale (1875-1933) developed his rationale designs, based on the principles of composition from the fine arts and architecture, in both civic commissions and, most notably, at the country estates of captains of industry and finance. He introduced an idealized and abstracted type of formal design that created beautiful spaces, structured large sites, and reflected informal and relaxed plant compositions. Ferruccio Vitale tours over 40 of his masterworks, photographed by some of the best landscape photographers of the time, including Samuel Gottscho. It recounts the compelling story of a life in the early twentieth century, influenced by immigrant dreams, social clubs, and professional connections, and its culmination in some of the greatest landscapes of the 20th century.

Hardcover. New York , Random House, 1st US, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 240 pages. Illustrated with color photos. Lavishly illustrated, THE GARDEN MAKERS profiles more than seventy gardeners, profesional and amateur, from Frederick Law Olmsted to Vita Sackville-West.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st US, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Folio-size hardcover, two-tone green cloth stamped in gilt. 237 pages, illustrated throughout with the author's b&w designs and sketches for gardens. Translated from French by Helen Morgenthau Fox. Spectacular copy, clean and bright with the original green dust jacket, which has only minor edgewear, small piece gone from the top of the spine and no fading or price-clip (originally $12 in 1924). Scarce thus.

Hardcover. Richmond VA, James River Garden Club, Revised Ed., 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 376 pages, with b&w and 2-color plates. Green cloth covers with bright gilt design on front but lettering faded on spine. Folded map of the Kitchen Garden of Mount Vernon laid in.

Hardcover. Richmond, VA, The William Byrd Press Inc., 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 355 pages, with illustrations, number 365 of 1000 copies. Compiled by the James River Garden Club, gilt title and marbled endpapers. Minor corner and edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 304 pages, illustrated with photographs, plans and drawings. A survey of the work on seventy pre-war Long Island country houses by six landscape architects and designers: Beatrix Farrand, Maertha Hutcheson, Marian Coffin, Ellen Shipman, Ruth Dean, and Annette Flanders, as well as later work by Rose Standish Nichols, Marjorie Cautley, and ten others.

Softcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 7th pr., 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 248 pages, illustrated in b&w and color. Mushrooms magically spew forth from the earth in the hours that follow a summer rain. Fuzzy brown molds mischievously turn forgotten peaches to slime in the kitchen fruit bowl. And in thousands of other ways, members of the kingdom Fungi do their part to make life on Earth the miracle that it is. In this lively book, George Hudler leads us on a tour of an often-overlooked group of organisms, which differ radically from both animals and plants. Along the way the author stops to ponder the marvels of nature and the impact of mere microbes on the evolution of civilization. Nature's ultimate recyclers not only save us from drowning in a sea of organic waste, but also provide us with food, drink, and a wide array of valuable medicines and industrial chemicals. Clean copy.

Softcover. Leopard Publishing Ventures, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 60 pages, illustrated. Built in the cottage orne style from a plan by the Regency architect John Nash (1752-1835), Old Came Rectory is the historic home of the poet philologist, William Barnes (1801-1886), Thomas Hardy's mentor. Amid gatherings of poets, writers and historical figures, how many discussions around the fire of this homely home have gone on to shape the world we know today? INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on Dedication page.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated in b&w and color. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, William Farquhar Payson, Revised Ed., 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a pink dust jacket that's chipped, faded. Red cloth with gilt titles on front cover and spine. New Edition with added Introduction and bibliography. 366 pages, b&w illustrations. A remarkable gardening work looking at the flora used in Shakespeare's works, with a guide on how to produce a Shakespeare garden. This is a gardening work, examining gardening and horticulture during Shakespeare's days. Small ownersip stiker on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping. 168 pages, b&w illustrations throughout. "...provides bold, practical solutions to important problems of economics, planning, and maintenance of urban planting, and offers effective programs to raise urban tree management to its essential place in the urban megastructure." Clean copy.