W r guilfoyle (9 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. In English.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Explore the grand gardens and forests of Europe and Britain with esteemed landscape designer William Guilfoyle, as he did with his wife on their honeymoon. The Guilfoyles took their Grand Tour honeymoon in 1890, at the height of William's reputation as the architect of one of the world's great botanical masterpieces, Melbourne's Royal Botanic Gardens. His visits to impressive landscapes - as diverse as Kew Gardens, Versailles and the wild gardens of England - inspired a series of illustrated articles, which were published to great acclaim on his return to Australia. Good condition, clean bright pages, tight spine.…

478pp. 8vo. Neat binders cloth. Black and white photographic frontispiece and plates. Offsetting to free endpapers. A very good copy. First edition.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface.We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

Green Cloth. Zustand: Good. Second Edition. x, 221 pages, frontispiece, plates and text illustrations. 2 old names on front endpaper, small cut in the middle of the foredge of the rear board.

Boards. 2nd Edition. 2nd ed., octavo, original cloth boards with Australian banksia flower gilt-stamped upper board, b&w frontis, b&w illus, pp xi, 221, errata slip tipped-in. Spine rubbed, with some loss of cloth. Ex-library stamps (Mechanics Institute). Pinkish mark on p. 47. Includes Glossary and a Botanical index. Good condition. William Robert Guilfoyle (1840 ? 1912) was an English-born landscape gardener and botanist in Victoria. He was the architect of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne and was responsible for the design of many parks and gardens in Melbourne and regional Victoria. "Australian Botany Specially Designed for the Use of Schools" is a general overview of botany, describing and illustrating plants and in particular plants which are native to Australia.…

Zustand: Very Good. Second edition. Hardback. Cloth slightly worn and marked, otherwise very good. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Melbourne, Whitcome and Tombs Limited, [1909]. Octavo, 478, [2] (publisher's list) pages with over 300 illustrations from photographs by N.J. Caire. Pictorial cloth a little bumped; covers slightly rubbed; edges slightly foxed; free endpapers discoloured; scattered foxing; a very good copy. Provenance: Captain Samuel Albert White (1870-1954), with his pencilled ownership signature on the front free endpaper.…

second edition).Octavo,218 pp.,uncoloured frontispiece, a fine copy in the blue gilt decorated cloth. Inscribed "To J. Leach esq with the kind regards W.R. G. 10.1884". A magnificent association copy, John Albert Leach (1870-1929) was a seminal figure in the Victorian Education Department; he published his minor classic An Australian bird book in 1911, followed in 1922 by Australian nature studies.…