oak spring garden library (25 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Clean, unmarked copy in as new condition with DJ in as new condition. BP/Trees/Books on Books.

Zustand: Good. Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. In protective mylar cover. (natural science, nature, trees).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. xxxvi, 278pp, illustrated throughout in colour. Orange/red cloth-covered boards; gilt design on front, gilt titles on black printed spine label, patterned endpapers. 4to. Rubbed spine ends, volume cupped. Top text block edge foxing, heavy text block has dropped. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket spine area sun-faded, has light shelf wear, chipping to edges, mirrors book damage.

Hard covers, dust jacket. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st edition. Jacket in plastic cover. An inspired selection of the rare books on trees from this most famous of botanical libraries. Weight: 1.0 Language: English.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Olive green cloth with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Very good, with very light shelfwear to covers. Inscribed to previous owner on blank page preceding title page. Binding sound. Dustjacket condition: Good, with general light shelfwear. 147pp. Many colour illustrations. This book was the first of a series of catalogues describing selections of the rare books and other material in the Oak Spring Garden Library, a collection formed by Mrs Paul Mellon. The book includes a tiny 1555 book on oaks to early 19th century advice on large-scale tree planting, and includes great books such as Evelyn's Sylva, Duhamel's Traite des Arbres and Michaux's North American Sylva.

Zustand: Good. xxxvi, 276, frontis, 168 col + b/w illus. . HB. Oblong 4to (295x254mm), orig. cloth, patterned endpapers. Withdrawn from an institutional library, a few ink stamps, shelf label to spine. Good in d/w (in removable protective sleeve, spine slightly faded). . [9780300049367].

Zustand: Good. xxvii, 147, 112 col + b/w illus. . HB. Oblong 4to (295x254mm), orig. cloth, patterned endpapers. Withdrawn from an institutional library, a few ink stamps, label to spine. Good in d/w (in removable protective sleeve). . [9780300046526].

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine in a Fine jacket. 1st Printing. 427pp 4to.

Zustand: Good. Without dustjacket, minor shelfwear to covers and extrmities of book, previous owners bookplate on inside front endpaper, otherwise fine.

First Edition. First edition, 4to, pp. xxvii, [1], 147, [3]; profusely illustrated; fine in original olive cloth. The first in a series of catalogues describing selections of the rare books and other material in the Oak Spring Garden Library, a collection formed by Mrs. Paul Mellon.

Bound in cloth, with dust jacket. Many ills, in color and b/w. 276 p. . -(Some small tears and sunning to the dust jacket, but otherwise the book is in very good condition.). ISBN 9780300049367.

sq4to., 28x 24cm, First Edition, xxxii,[2],276p., numerous plates and text illustrations including many colour plates, index, matt orange book linen with black spine label and gilt apple illustration on the upper cover, fine/fine, as new, in the clear shipping wrapper (gar). ~ AN OAK SPRING POMONA is the second of a series of catalogues describing selections of the rare books and other material in the Oak Spring Garden Library, a collection formed by Mrs Paul Mellon. The Pomona describes a hundred books and manuscripts about fruit, with illustrations taken from some of the most beautiful books on the subject, as well as original drawings or paintings. The earliest book described is Bussato's Giardino di Agricoltura of 1592, the latest The Herefordsl Pomona, an encyclopaedia of apples and pears from the 1870s. In between there is a gathering of fruit books large and small: La Quintinie's Instruction pour les jardins fritiers, first published in I690 and translated by john Evelyn three years later, Duhamel's Trait des Arbres?/nitiers, and nearly fifty others from France and Britain, among them Brookshaw's giant Pomona Britannica and a handful of pocket sized books of directions for grafting and cultivating the best varieties available. Sections on fruit-growing in these two countries are followed by others on fruit elsewhere in Europe (including the books of Knoop, Gallesio, and Bivort) and fruit in America (with Downing, Hovey, and several sets of nurserymen's plates) before chapters on citrus fruit (beginning with Ferrari's Hesperides of 1646), apples and pears, peaches and soft fruit, grapes, melons, and tropical fruit. Each description makes clear the background of the book concerned and its relationship to others, while a generous number of illustrations in colour and black and white help to give an impression of their contents. Many of the Oak Spring copies have particularly interesting associations, recorded in inscriptions, bookplates, or binding details, all of which are described. . Although there is a brief bibliographical summary of each book, the background essays give the Oak Spring catalogues a historical setting that should apeal to garden historians and gardeners as well as book collectors and librarians. . Printed at the Meriden Stinehour Press, the appearance of the books is intened to regflect the nature an quality of the contents of the Oak Spring Garden Library. (Jacket).

Zustand: New.

Hard covers, dust jackets. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st edition. Scarcely used. Weight: 1.0 Language: English.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 160 pages. 12.25x9.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: Good. 4to. 147 pp. Green cloth-covered boards with gilt spine and front board gilt leaf decoration. Very good. Color plates, including color frontis. Decorative tree-motif endpapers. First in Oak Spring Garden Library series.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 4to (29.5 cm), xxvii, 149 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. "An Oak Spring Sylva" is the first of a series of discursive catalogues describing selections of the rare books and other material in the Oak Spring Garden Library, a collection formed by Mrs. Paul Mellon. Each volume in the Oak Spring series will be a lovely and useful compendium for book collectors, librarians, and garden historians. "An Oak Spring Sylva" focuses on a unique selection of forty-six books, manuscripts and drawings devoted to trees and shrubs. With vivid illustrations and rich descriptions, it covers a vast range of works -- from a tiny 1555 book on oaks to early 19th-century advice on large-scale tree-planting. Among these are world-renowned books like Evelyn's Sylva, Duhamel's Traite des Arbres, and Michaux's North American Sylva, as well as rather unknown treasures, such as Marshall's American Grove, which helped introduce the riches of American forests to European gardens in the eighteenth century.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good+. First Edition. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Orange cloth decorated with a gilt piece of fruit on front cover, illustrated end papers, xxxii + [4} + 276 pp., numerous illustrations in color and in b & w. This is a very nice copy, clean and tight. It has a musty odor that is discernible but not overwhelming; front board is bowed, previous owner's name on front flyleaf; otherwise, this is a clean, tight copy. In a pictorial dust jacket that has a 2" pen mark on front cover, and some very minor bumping at one corner. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 3 lbs 14 oz. Category: Gardening, Flowers, Botany, Fruits, Vegetables; Books; ISBN: 0300049366. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 003516.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 4to (29.5 cm), xxxvi, 277 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. "An Oak Spring Pomona" is the second in a series of catalogues describing selections of rare books and other material in the Oak Spring Garden Library, a collection formed by Mrs. Paul Mellon. The Pomona describes one hundred books and manuscripts about fruit, with illustrations taken from some of the most beautiful books on the subject as well as from original drawings and paintings. The earliest book described is Bussatos Giardino di Agricoltura of 1592, the latest The Herefordshire Pomona, an encyclopedia of apples and pears from the 1870s. In between there are fruit books large and small: La Quintinie's Instruction pour les Jardins fruitiers, Duhamel's Traite des arbres fruitiers, and many others. The book is divided into sections on fruit-growing in France and Britain, fruit elsewhere in Europe, and fruit in America, as well as citrus fruit, apples and pears, peaches and soft fruit, grapes, melons, and tropical fruit. Each description gives the background of the book and its relationship to others and is accompanied by illustrations of its contents in color and black and white.".

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good+. 147 pages in very good condition. Pages are clean and unmarked with illustrations throughout. Page edges are lightly foxed. Green cloth with gilt titles. Lightly worn around the edges. White dustjacket with black titles in very good condition. Lightly worn around the edges. Spine is lightly smudged. VG+/VG+ Size: 10 x 11 1/2. Book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First edition. Near fine in a near fine dustwrapper.

Finec opy.

Three volume set with superb colour plates throughout all volumes. 4to. Fine hardbacks in nr. fine dws. The Oak Spring Garden Library comprises Rachel Lambert Mellon's celebrated collection of rare books, manuscripts, works of art and artifacts relating to gardening, landscape design, horticulture, botany, natural history and travels. These three volumes present the collection and is of great interest to collectors of rare books, to fine-art historians as well as to horticulturists, botanists and garden historians.

Quarto,427 pp.,illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper, the bookplate of Margaret Stones, tipped in letters including one from the author to Stones. A superb publication. Margaret Stones represented with an entry and two illustrations, pp. 410-410.

Four vol. set with colour and b/w. plates throughout. 4to. Fine hardbacks in thor. vg. to fine dws. From the library of Prof. Grenville (Gren) Lucas OBE, much loved botanist and conservationist. Loosely inserted is Gren's two-and-a-half page (A4) handwritten, very complimentary, draft review of 'An Oak Spring Flora'. These four volumes present a selection of works from of the Oak Spring Garden Library which comprises Rachel Lambert Mellon's celebrated collection of rare books, manuscripts, works of art and artifacts relating to gardening, landscape design, horticulture, botany, natural history and travels. A fascinating read and reference.