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By: N/A
Price: £3.00
Publisher: 1999
Seller ID: 000287
ISBN: 8881691590
Condition: New
Well illustrated, large 8vo, pp 176, wrappers, very good. (Originally produced as an exhibition catalogue, but in effect a useful guide to Italian gardens, 36 being described and illustrated, many of them private. Bilingual text). View more info
By: N/A
Price: £27.50
Publisher: London, The Landscape Institute: 1994
Seller ID: 003531
ISBN: 1873071051
Well illustrated with numerous colour and black-and-white photos, horizontal format 8vo, pp 80, softcover, laminated wrappers, two handwritten telephone number amendments on two pages but otherwise a good clean copy of this suprisingly uncommon guide. View more info
By: N/A
Price: £30.00
Publisher: London, Ascot Gas Water Heaters Ltd: 1938
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 009832
Condition: Good
Very well illustrated throughout, quarto, pp 287, very slightly worn internally, cloth a little marked and thumbed, a small stain around the top edge of the upper cover. [There are extensive site plans, floor plans, photographs and kitchen details of many newly constructed buildings, mainly throughout the home counties and London, such as Islington, Southwark, Stockwell, Hackney, Hampstead, Pinner, Staines, Bournemouth etc.. These are preceeded by short articles on working class housing, management of flats, planning against noise, air-raid precautions, radio reception, design of continental f... View more info
By: Bahamon, Alejandro (editor)
Price: £25.00
Publisher: Tenues Publishing Group: 2005
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 007934
ISBN: 3832790578
Condition: Very Good
Very well illustrated, thick quarto, pp 527, pictorial laminated boards, a very good copy. {Within the last few decades, the design of public spaces in both urban and rural areas has undergone important transformations. Factors such as technological, cultural, and social changes have all played a role in this shift. Now, both newly developed areas and regenerated urban centers challenge landscaping to go further than it has gone before. This book, organized into five geographical zones, gathers the best and most recent projects from around the world. Browse these pages to discover the ultimate... View more info
By: Bahamon, Alejandro (editor)
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Tenues Publishing Group: 2005
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 010471
ISBN: 3832790578
Condition: Very Good
Very well illustrated, thick quarto, pp 527, pictorial laminated boards, EXTREMELY LOOSE INTERNALLY, but an otherwise clean copy, useful as a working copy only. {Within the last few decades, the design of public spaces in both urban and rural areas has undergone important transformations. Factors such as technological, cultural, and social changes have all played a role in this shift. Now, both newly developed areas and regenerated urban centers challenge landscaping to go further than it has gone before. This book, organized into five geographical zones, gathers the best and most recent proje... View more info
Price: £25.00
Publisher: Paris, 1993
Seller ID: 000845
Well illustrated, hardback, quarto, pp 223, a very good copy in dustwrapper as new. (Originally published at £35.00). View more info
By: Batey, Mavis
Price: £17.50
Publisher: London, Barn Elms: 1996
Seller ID: 008850
ISBN: 1899531025
Condition: Very Good
Very well illustrated, large horizontal quarto, pp 135, a very good copy in dustwrapper. Very well illustrated, large horizontal quarto, pp 135, a very good copy in dustwrapper. [Landscape historian Batey explores real and fictional settings of Austen's novels. In each chapter she uses a different Austen novel to discuss the style of gardens and landscapes during the early 19th century and Regency England. A continuing theme is the tension between Georgian propriety and the challenging Romantic ideals as they played out in the English landscape. Jane Austen was deeply inspired by the landscap... View more info
By: Burl, Aubrey
Price: £30.00
Publisher: Yale University Press: 1993
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 011113
ISBN: 0300055757
Condition: Very Good
Well illustrated, large 8vo, pp xvi, 286, a very good copy in a very slightly worn dustwrapper. [This book discusses the lines of standing stones that until now have been the neglected wonders of prehistoric Europe, rows that were foci of rituals in Britain, Ireland and Brittany for over two thousand years. Places such as Carnac in Brittany and Callanish in the Hebrides are visited by many visitors each year, but before now there has been no book that seriously explains the history, significance and background to these impressive sites. Aubrey Burl shows that the settings vary from pairs of is... View more info
By: Campbell, Katie
Price: £11.95
Publisher: London, Frances Lincoln: 2006
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 012392
ISBN: 0711225338
Condition: Very Good
Very well illustrated, quarto, pp 176, a very good copy in a dustwrapper showing the faintest signs of use. Virtually as new. [The 29 landscape designs selected for this book have changed the way we look at designed outdoor spaces. They are examples of the ways in which 20th-century landscape designers have attempted to create a new style to reflect the modern age. All the landscapes still exist in some form and most can be visited. They range from Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater to Brenda Colville's Eggborough Power Station, Ian Hamilton Finlay's Little Sparta to Maya Lin's Vietnam War Me... View more info
By: Cavendish, Hugh
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, Frances Lincoln: 2012
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author and photographer
Seller ID: 014142
ISBN: 0711232849
Condition: Very Good
Well illustrated, large octavo, pp 272, a very good copy in dustwrapper. [Presentation copy signed by author, and also by the photographer Grania Cavendish. With a short ALS to Tom Wright, with a copy of his reply. Tom Wright acted as landscape consultant over many years at Holker.] View more info
By: Crowe, Sylvia
Price: £15.00
Publisher: Woodbridge, Garden Art Press: 1994
Edition: Third edition
Seller ID: 012478
ISBN: 1870673085
Condition: Good
Third edition, small quarto, pp 296, a good copy in dustwrapper. ["Damaged copy" stamped on rear endpaper, and the lower corners of the binding are bumped, but I can detect no other fault.] {The third edition of this book has been revised and updated by one of the pioneers in the field of landscape design. The book examines principles of design in famous gardens in Spain, Italy, France and England. Dame Sylvia Crowe, a pioneer in the field of landscape design, has written a book that encompasses both a history of design in gardens and a study of the need for these principles to be appl... View more info
![Image for A Different Kind of Country (Richard Fitter's copy]](/assets/images/product/015700.jpg)
Price: £10.00
Publisher: London & New York, The Macmillan Company: 1968
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 015700
Condition: Very Good
Illustrated, octavo, pp x, 276, fore-edge very slightly foxed, otherwise clean internally, red cloth in good condition, the dustwrapper is just very slightly used. [ "This book is a plea for diversity - for the preservation of natural diversity and for the creation of man-made diversity - in the hope that the prevailing trend toward uniformity can be arrested and the world kept a fit place for the greatest possible human variety." From the library of the naturalist and conservationist Richard Fitter, with his stamp on the front endpaper.] View more info
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Private printing ?: 1979
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 015786
Condition: Good
Illustrated, small octavo, pp 126, clean internally, paperback. covers a little age-toned. [A large signature of the author in red on title page]. SCARCE View more info
By: Fieldhouse, Ken & Harvey, Sheila (editors)
Price: £15.00
Publisher: Woodstock, New York, The Overlook Press: 1993
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 010716
ISBN: 0879514744
Condition: Very Good
Well illustrated, large quarto, pp 240, a very good copy in a very slightly worn dustwrapper. [Contemporary design of the built, external environment is increasingly a focus for commercial interest and public concern. The need for effective urban generation and the call for a more holistic approach to environmental planning, place new demands on the landscape practitioner. This book draws together a selection of some 60 of the world's most stimulating original and unusual modern landscaped schemes. Commercial, public, private, urban, agricultural, industrial and community projects are all cons... View more info
Price: £295.00
Seller ID: 010536
Condition: Very Good
Volumes 1 - 19 (complete in 47 parts), 1972 - 1991. . Paperbacks as issued, the early parts typed, xeroxed and stapled, in good condition, just slight wear to the covers and the spines. Complete with Newsletter numbers 10 - 12, 14, 15, 17, 20 - 25, 27 - 30, 33 - 34, 36; the Cumulative Index for 1966-86, and the Register of Research numbers 1, 3, 4 & 5. Long runs such as this rarely come up for sale. [Very heavy - extra postage will be required) View more info
Price: £65.00
Publisher: London & Edinburgh, Fabian Carlsson - Graeme Murray: 1989
Seller ID: 008583
ISBN: 0948274069
Condition: Very Good
Well illustrated, pp (46), extemely long horizontal format [405mm x 205mm], a very clean sound copy in a very slightly marked dustwrapper. View more info
![Image for Hampstead Garden Suburb, 1907-1977 [A History]](/assets/images/product/015746.jpg)
Price: £18.50
Publisher: London, Hampstead Garden Suburb Residents Association: 1977
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 015746
ISBN: 0950556203
Condition: Very Good
Illustrated, slim quarto, pp 20 (+ advertisements), paperback, very slight signs of use. SCARCE. View more info
By: Grove, A.T. & Rackham, Oliver
Price: £200.00
Publisher: New Haven, Yale University Press: 2001
Seller ID: 008282
ISBN: 0300084439
Condition: Very Good
Well illustrated, small quarto, pp 384, very clean internally, black cloth showing only slight signs of wear with slight bumping to the corners, still a very good copy in a very slightly worn dustwrapper. EXTREMELY SCARCE. A heavy book - extra postage may be required. [Mediterranean Europe - southern Portugal and Spain, France, Italy, the Balkans, Greece, and the Mediterranean islands - is often interpreted as a "Lost Eden," once verdant and fertile, then progressively degraded and desertified by human mismanagement and the ignorance and folly of successive civilizations. In this e... View more info
Price: £60.00
Publisher: London, Sampston Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington: 1879
Edition: First Thus
Seller ID: 015680
Condition: Very Good
Illustrated, octavo, pp xxx, 371, (+ publisher's catalogue 10pp), all edges gilt, a neat contemporary inscription facing the half-title, otherwise very clean and bright internally, decorated cloth gilt, very slightly rubbed, the spine slightly pulled at the head and foot, but overall a very attractive copy. View more info
Price: £7.50
Publisher: London, Longmans: 1967
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 010758
Condition: Very Good
Illustrated with charts and diagrams, quarto, pp xvi, 329, with base plan in pocket at rear, a small neat signature on the front endpaper, otherwise very clean internally, black cloth in very good condition, in a frayed and rubbed dustwrapper with a small tear on its upper cover. Together with a seven page typed and xeroxed account of the University College of Swansea, Department of Botany and Microbiology Excursion to the Lower Swansea Valley. {Over a period of about 150 years up until the 1920s, the open valley of the River Tawe became one of the most heavily industrialised areas of the dev... View more info
