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How to create a perfect garden View picture(s) 1 AGRICOLA, Georg Andreas. L'agriculture parfaite, ou nouvelle decouverte, touchant  la culture & la multiplication des arbres, des arbustes, et des fleurs. Traduit de l'Allemand avec des remarques. Amsterdam, Pierre de Coup, 1720. 2 parts in 1 vol. 8vo. Contemporary calf, ribbed, decorated and gilt spine with title lettered in gold. With engr. portrait of the author as frontispiece, woodcut vignette on title and 34 engraved folding plates. (8), 261 (1 blank); (4), 146, 8 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Agriculture & Husbandry  Botany  Engravings  French  Gardens  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Richly illustrated edition of the reconstruction and description of the famous gardens of Plinius View picture(s) 2 AVAUX, Félibien DES. Les Plans et les Descriptions de deux des plus belles maisons de campagne de Pline le consul. Avec des remarques sur tous ses bâtimens, et une dissertation touchant l'architecture antique & l'architecture gotique. Amsterdam, Estienne Roger, 1706. Contemp. calf, spine ribbed and gilt. With 7 engraved plates, five folding, with plans and views of Plinius' houses and gardens. 112, (8) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Agriculture & Husbandry  Architecture  Art General  Gardens  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A famous British gardener translated into Dutch View picture(s) 3 BASTER, Job. Philip Miller's maandlyksche tuin-oefeningen in moes-  vrugt- en bloemhof, in boomgaard en oranjehuis, in  stook- en broeikas, en in ent- en kweekery. Derde druk. Amsterdam, Erven H. Gartman, Erven J.W. Vermande, J.J. Schmidt, W. Holtrop, 1821. Original wrappers. With frontispiece engraving by C. Brouwer after J. Smies, a large folding engraved plate, 5 (of 6) large folding tabels. VIII, 292 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Agriculture & Husbandry  Botany  Gardens  Natural History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Unrecorded original issue of a series of 16 views of the Honselaarsdijk palace, coloured by hand View picture(s) 4 BLOOTELING, Abraham. Series of 16 views of Honselaarsdijk. (Amsterdam, ca. 1683). Oblong 8vo. Modern half vellum, boards pasted with paper decorated with small flowers. With 16 fine numbered engraved views (ca. 13 x 16 cm), signed by Abraham Blooteling, tipped in on blank leaves (17 x 23 cm), all hand coloured. 16 lvs. with engravings. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Architecture  Engravings  Gardens  Print Series  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Beautiful fountains by the king's own painter View picture(s) 5 BOUCHER, François. Recueil de Fontaines Inventées.- Second Livre de Fontaines Inventées. Paris, Chez Huquier, (1736). 2 parts in 1 vol. Folio. 19th century dark marbled calf, spine ribbed and richly gilt, with gilt triple fillet borders on sides, with gilt floral ornaments at the four corners, gilt triple inner fillets, g.e. With 2 series of 7 fine engraved plates of water fountains, including 2 titles, the first series engraved by Huguier, and the second series by P. Aveline, both after rich and decorative designs by François Boucher. 14 lvs., versos blank. Full description >> Related Subjects: Architecture  Gardens  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Important 18th-century book on gardening View picture(s) 6 BRADLEY, Richard. Nouvelles observations physiques et pratiques sur le jardinage et l'art de planter, avec le calendrier des jardiniers. Ouvrage traduit de l'Anglois de Bradley, enrichi de figures en taille-douce. Paris, Pierre-Aug. Paulus du Mesnil, Jean-Luc Nyon, & Siméon-Prosper Hardy, 1756. 3 vols. 12mo. Contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt in compartments with red title labels lettered in gold, red painted edges. Engraved frontispiece depicting the gardens of a country estate, and 12 numbered folding engraved plates by Pierre-François Legrand, showing all kinds of flowers, garden lay-outs, insects etc., including 3 very interesting plates of a greenhouse (plan, in- and outside views) in vol. 3 XXXVI, 358, (2): Privilege; (5), X-XVI, 510; (2), 12, 1-430, 433-442 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: England  France  Gardens  Horticulture  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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With 10 unrecorded extra views of Danish houses and castles View picture(s) 7 BRUUN, Johan Jacob. Novus atlas Daniae, eller prospecter af alle Hoved- og Kiöbstaederne, af alle kongelige Slotte, samt andre Kongelige Lyst-Slotte og Staeder udi Begge Konge-Rigerne Dannemark og Norge og Underliggende Fyrstendömme. Iste Tome af Siaelland. Copenhagen, Johan Jacob Bruun, 1761. Oblong folio. Contemporary marbled calf. With 60 full-page engraved views of Danish views of Copenhagen, castles, country houses, royal houses and gardens, etc., including one folding, with a view of the Royal Castle near Copenhagen, all engraved by Hans Quist after designs by Johan Jacob Bruun. [8] pp. text. Full description >> Related Subjects: Architecture  Art General  Atlases  Denmark  Gardens  Topography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The way to a woman's heart? View picture(s) 8 DALEN, Johannes van. Klucht van de kale edelman. Gespeelt op de Amsterdamse Schouburgh. Anno 1657. Amsterdam, Jan Janszoon van Santen, (1657). Small 4to. 19th century brown paper wrappers. Engraved title-illustration. (20) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Amsterdam  Gardens  Theatre  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Garden plans by the court-gardener of the Palace of Mirabell in Austria View picture(s) 9 DANREITER, Franz Anton. Vier und Zwantzig Gärten-Grund-risse, neu entworffen und unterthänig überraichet Dem Hochgeb. H.H. Frans Lactans des Heil. Röm. Reichs Frey-Herrn von Firmian.- Vingt quatre Plans des Jardins, nouvellement inventées et dediées A son Exc. Mr. le Baron Lactance de Firmian. Augsburg, Johann Andreas Pfeffel, (1730). Folio. Contemporary half vellum. With engraved title, including the coat of arms of Baron de Firmian, and 24 full-page engraved plates with garden-plans. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Engravings  Gardens  Modelbooks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Famous lyrical and didactic poem on gardens View picture(s) 10 DELILLE, L'ABBÉ (= Jacques MONTANIER). Les jardins, ou l'art d'embellir les paysages, poëme. Nouvelle édition, revue, corrigée, et considérablement augmentée. London, Ph. de Boussonnier, 1801. 4to. Contemporary fullgrained green morocco, spine ribbed and richly gilt, with richly gilt decorated borders on sides, richly gilt inner dentelles, g.e., with purple silk doublure and endpapers, with gilt fillet borders and gilt ornaments at the four corners. (8), XXII, 143, (1 blank), XII pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Bindings  Gardens  Literature  Poetry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First The Hague edition of one of the most popular general handbooks on garden architecture of the 18th century View picture(s) 11 DEZALLIER D'ARGENVILLE, Antoine -Joseph. La theorie et la pratique du jardinage. Ou l'on traite a fond des beaux jardins, appellés communément les Jardins de proprieté, comme sont les parterres, les bosquets, les boulingrins, &c. contenant plusieurs plans et dispositions generales de jardins; nouveaux desseins de parterres, de bosques, de boulingrins, labirinthes, sales, galeries, portiques & cabinets de treillages, terrasses, escaliers, cascades, & autres ornemens servant à la decoration &  embélissement des jardins. Avec la Maniere de dresser un terrain, de le couper en terrasses, & d'y tracer & executer toutes sortes de desseins, suivant les principes de la geometrie; & la méthode de planter & élever en peu de tems tous les plants  qui conviennent aux beaux jardins; comme aussi celle de rechercher les eaux, de les conduire dans les jardins. The Hague, Pierre Husson, 1711. 2 parts in one. Large 4to. Contemporary sprinkled calf; spine richly gilt in compartments with red title label lettered in gold, gilt binding edges. Title printed in red and black, and 32 large double-page engraved plates by J. Lamsvelt (only 3 of the plates are signed by him), 17 woodcut illustrations in the text, engraved head- and tail-pieces. (12), 208 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  France  Gardens  Netherlands  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The most popular work on domestic economy in the country of the late 16th, and 17th century View picture(s) 12 ESTIENNE, Charles & Jean LIEBAULT. L'agriculture et maison rustique. Reveüe & augmentée de beaucoup, dont le contenu se voit en la page suyuante: avec un bref recueil des chasses du cerf, du sanglier, du lievre, du renard, du blereau, du connil, du loup, des oyseaux, & de la fauconnerie: comme pourrés voir à la fin de ce livre, avec les figures. Y joint la fabrique & usage de la jauge, ou diapason. Plus a esté adjousté en ceste derniere edition, une instruction pour sçavoir en guels temps, mois, lune, & saison, on doit semer & replanter selon le pays froid & chaud, pour faire advancer & retarder les semences & toutes sortes de graines. Dierniere édition. Lyon, Simon Rigaud, 1654. 4to. Contemporary full calf, spine gilt in compartments with title lettered in gold. Title printed in red and black, full-page woodcut of a cow with explanatory text within borders, idem of a horse, 2 woodcut illustrations of herbs, 20 nearly full-page woodcut plans of pleasure-gardens, 10 woodcut illustrations on distilling apparatus, and 3 large woodcut illustrations on land-surveying. (16), 574, (18) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Agriculture & Husbandry  Falconry  French  Gardens  Hunting  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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How to manage a country house and estate by the famous printer/physician Charles Estienne View picture(s) 13 ESTIENNE, Charles (Carolus STEPHANUS or Karel STEVENS), Jean LIÉBAUT, Adam LONICER, Jean SCHRÖDER, Olivier DE SERRES & Cornelis van SOMEREN. Hof-stede en landt-huys. Vervatende niet alleen, de beschrijvinge, plaatsche, bestieringe en waarneminge van een bequame hof-stede, Kruyd- en moes-hof, boter en kaas maken, etc. maar ook van paarden, muylen, ezelen, ossen, koeyen, kalveren, verkens, schapen, geyten, hoenderen, swanen, gansen, enden, faysanten, paauwen, kalkoenen, patrijsen, enz. hoedanige opsiender, hoevenersche, knechten,  maaghden,, en gereetschap den landt-heer noodigh heeft; de beschijvinge der krachten van son en mane, teykenen van goet ende quaad weder, welkke tijdt fr brdrijf moet waarnemen, en met hoedanige genees- en heel-middelen, hij en sijn huys-vrouw, allerley ongeval en sieckten, van menschen en vee sullen helpen en genesen. Midtsgaders de krachten en eygenschappen, nut en hinder van allerhande dieren, hruyden, etc. Daar beneffens een ontwerp van den gehelen land-bouw. ... Als mede de verhandeling van kinder-pokken en maselen, door ... Kornelis van Someren. Dordrecht, Gillis Neering for Abraham Andriesz., 1662. 4to. Later half vellum, boards covered with marbled paper. With engraved frontispiece, woodcut printer's device on title, one full-page and 3 half-page engraved plates in the text. (8), 189, (27) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Agriculture & Husbandry  Farming  Gardens  Medicine  Netherlands  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Presentation copy, with more than 100 garden drawings & plans View picture(s) 14 FORESTIER, Jean-Claude-Nicolas. Jardins: carnet de plans et de dessins. Paris, Émile-Paul frères, 1920. Royal 4to (33 x 26.5 cm). Black morocco presentation binding, gold-tooled, with marbled and gilt endpapers, and with the original publisher's wrappers (including spine), printed in green and black, bound in.  With an engraved garden scene on the front wrapper and more than 100 drawings and plans printed from line blocks, many full-page. [120] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: Gardens  Horticulture  Natural History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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All you need to know about life in the country View picture(s) 15 GROEN, Jan van der & Pieter NIJLANDT. Den Nederlantschen Hovenier, zijnde het 1. deel van  het vermakelijk land-leven. beschrijvende alderhande  prinçelijke en heerlijke lust-hoven en hof-steden,  en hoe men deselve, met veelderley uytnemenede boomen,  bloemen en kruyden, kan beplanten, bezaeijen, en verçieren.  Met noch omtrent 200. modellen van bloem-perken, parterres,  dool-hoven, priëlen, lat-werken, en zonne-wysers.-  Den Verstandigen Hovenier, over de twaelf maenden van  't jaer. zijnde het ii. deel van het vermakelyk lant-leven.  Beschrijvende , hoe men op de beste en bequaemste maniere  sal hoven, thuynen, lust-hoven en boomgaerden verordineren,  bereyden, beplanten, en bezaeijen. Als mede, Hoe men  alderhande ooft en fruyt, kruyden en bloemen, wortelen  en zaden, op sijn behoorlijke tijt zal vergaderen.-  De Medicyn-winkel, of ervaren huys-houder: zijnde het  iii. deel van het vermakelyk land-leven. Onderwijsende,  hoe men binnen en buyten de steden heylsame medicijnen  voor de gebreken van menschen en beesten, sal toemaken  en bereyden. Als mede Den naerstigen byen-Houder. Noch is hier achter bygevoeght Den Verstandigen Kok. Amsterdam, Wed. van Gijsbert de Groot, 1711-1721. 3 parts in 1 vol. 4to. Later half marbled calf, with paper title-label mounted on spine. With engraved frontispiece, 2 titles, 71 full-page plates, mostly engraved, partly in woodcut, showing views of famous houses and gardens, illustrations of garden-work, garden architecture, numerous plans of gardens, and 7 woodcuts in text in the 1st part; engraved frontispiece, 4 illustrations of garden-work on full-page engraved plate, and 2 woodcuts in text, one showing a view in a vineyard, in the 2nd part; and large engraved illustration on 3 titles, respectively showing a pharmacy for men and beasts, a bee-hive-yard, and cooks in their kitchen, full-page woodcut plate of a horse and a cow, and 2 woodcuts in text on distilling in the 3rd part. (30), 103, (3); (8), 84, (4); 88 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Architecture  Dutch  Engravings  Gardens  Gastronomy  Medicine  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Ideas for (re)decorating your garden(s) View picture(s) 16 GROHMANN, Johann Gottfried. Recueil de dessins d'une execution peu dispendieuse contenans des plans des petites maisons de campagne, petits pavillons de jardins, temples, hermitages, chaumieres, monumens, obélisques, ruines, portails, portes, grilles, bancs des jardins, chaises, volieres, gondoles, ponts, etc. Ouvrage interessant pour cette classe d'amateurs, qui sans faire de grandes dépenses, sont pourtant bien aises d'embellir leurs jardins d'ornemens nouveaux et pleins de goût. Première edition Italienne avec des additions de bâtimens du meilleur goût. Venice, Joseph Remondini et Fils, 1805. 4to. 19th century green marbled boards, blue sprinkled edges. Engraved title and 37 engraved plates with numerous designs of maisonettes, pavillions, chapels, bridges, fountains, monuments, temples, gondolas, obelisks, gates, entrances, gazebos, garden-houses, garden-chairs and tables. 38 leaves. Full description >> Related Subjects: Agriculture & Husbandry  Architecture  Art General  Gardens  Ornaments  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Classic on carpet-gardening View picture(s) 17 HAMPEL, Wilhelm. Die moderne Teppichgärtnerei. Sechste Auflage. Berlin, Paul Parey, 1901. Large 8vo. Contemporary cloth. With 150 lithographed plans, often full-page, several double-page, six printed in colours. 150, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Architecture  Gardens  Lithographs  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Plants in the botanical garden of the Leyden university View picture(s) 18 HERMANN, Paul. Horti academici Lugduno-Batavi catalogus exhibens plantarum omnium nomina, quibus ab anno MDCLXXXI ad annum MDCLXXXVI hortus fuit instructus ut & plurimarum in eodem cultarum & à nemine hucusque editarum descriptiones & icones. Leyden, Cornelius Boutesteyn, 1687. 8vo. Contemporary vellum, title in ink and old library label on spine. Engraved frontispiece by A. de Blois, woodcut vignette on title, and 107 engraved plates depicting several plants, with the Latin names printed in italics above. (20), 699, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Botany  Gardens  Natural History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Colourful ideas for your garden View picture(s) 19 HERTZ, Wilhelm. Der praktische Landschaftsgärtner. Eine Anleitung zur Anlegung oder Verschönerung von Gärten verschiedener Grösse. Mit Anwendung zu einer zweckmässigen Benützung des Küchengartens, zu Spargel- und Artichoken-Pflanzung, Champignons-Zucht, Gurken- und Melonen-Treiberei u.s.w. Stuttgart, Hoffmann'sche Verlags-Buchhandlung, 1840. 8vo. Contemporary printed boards. With 24 illustrations of garden-plans and -buildings on 21 handcoloured lithographed plates. 145, (5) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Botany  Gardens  Natural History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Famous work on English garden designs View picture(s) 20 HIRSCHFELD, Christian Cay L. Theorie der Gartenkunst. Leipzig, M.G. Weidmanns Erben, Reich, 1779-1785. 5 volumes. 4to. Early 19th-century half calf. With fine engraved garden view on 5 titles, 231 engravings in text, many full-page, and 6 full-page and 1 folding engraved plate. XIV, 230, [2]; IV, 200, [2]; IV, 251, [5]; IV, 252, [2]; VIII, 368, [10] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Agriculture & Husbandry  Engravings  Gardens  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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