Skip to content

Secure Checkout

Website Secured with 256-bit TLS Encryption
Subtotal: $9,149.47
Shipping: $68.93
$0.00
Donation Amount: $0.00
Total: $9,218.40
2 - 6 days
4 - 14 days

All fields are required unless marked optional.

Add Shipping Note
  • Visa
  • Mastercard
  • American Express
  • Discover
  • Paypal
  • Apple Pay
  • Google Pay

Verified and Secured. Guaranteed.

Website Secured with 256-bit TLS Encryption
Please select your payment method from the following list:
Click the button to checkout with PayPal.
You will be charged $9,218.40 when completing this purchase.

Cart Totals

Subtotal: $9,149.47
Shipping: $68.93
: $0.00
Donation Amount: $0.00
Total: $9,218.40

You are about to purchase:

A Prospect of Gardens. Visited, Discovered, and Presented by Their Owners, Creators & By Travellers Including Observations by Cyrus the Younger, Vitruvius, Columella, Goethe, Aurangzeb, Edward Lear & Others. With Painted Prints, Collages, Photographs, and Descriptions.

A Prospect of Gardens. Visited, Discovered, and Presented by Their Owners, Creators & By Travellers Including Observations by Cyrus the Younger, Vitruvius, Columella, Goethe, Aurangzeb, Edward Lear & Others. With Painted Prints, Collages, Photographs, and Descriptions. by Allix, Susan

4 to 14 days for delivery
Standard Shipping: $20.00
Details
$8,500.00
( US$)
Seller: Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB
Title
A Prospect of Gardens. Visited, Discovered, and Presented by Their Owners, Creators & By Travellers Including Observations by Cyrus the Younger, Vitruvius, Columella, Goethe, Aurangzeb, Edward Lear & Others. With Painted Prints, Collages, Photographs, and Descriptions.
Author
Allix, Susan
Seller
Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description
[London:] 2015 One of seventeen numbered copies. . Green and yellow-gold morocco illustrated with a yellow-dotted vine pattern and an engraved copper leaf inlay that has been oxydised to give it a dark coloring. The artist notes that each binding in this edition is slightly different. However, two constant themes connect them all - a predominance of green, and leaves that have been cut out of copper, engraved, then oxydised to make them dark; pages are joined together and, for strength, the book is sewn on linen tapes laced into multi-layer boards; the endbands are of pierced leather in colors that reflect those used on the boards. The book comes in a green cloth box with a black-lettered paper label. Large, thick quarto. Illustrated with prints and photographic reproductions; there is frequent use of lino cut with etching in the prints, and they painted with watercolor, gouache, acrylic or colored ink. The paper is mould-made Velin Arches. Other papers are colored Bugra Butten, blue and green rag paper, Karuki grass, Corn hair, and Khadi papers. Awagami Mingeishi with a printed image is used for some endpapers. The principal typefaces are Caslon, Roman Compressed, Verona, and Bembo, set by hand and printed letterpress in black colors. A fine copy. This book is a book of garden moments. It is neither a history, nor a story of specific gardens; not a gardening manual, or account of plants, designers, gardeners...it contains elements of all these, laying out a perspective of shapes, influences and preferences occurring when nature is organised and the companionship of the earth is considered. Under six titles a collection of garden are presented: Gardens of Ancient Egypt; Early Persian Gardens; Illusion and Reality in Roman Gardens; Giardino Giusti; Mughal gardens, Lost and Found; Jardin Majorelle. Although divided by time and location, they are not so far apart that the influences of conquerors, trade and migration may be identified in their characters...As a garden, or a progression through the prospect of the garden, the book is planted with shapes, colours, walkways, light, and shade" (from the prospectus).
No image available

WINNING DESIGNS 1904-1927 PARIS PRIZE IN ARCHITECTURE by SOCIETY OF BEAUX ARTS ARCHITECTS

7 to 14 days for delivery
Standard Shipping: $8.50
Details
$265.00
( US$)
Seller: The Bookpress, Ltd.
Title
WINNING DESIGNS 1904-1927 PARIS PRIZE IN ARCHITECTURE
Author
SOCIETY OF BEAUX ARTS ARCHITECTS
Seller
The Bookpress, Ltd. (United States)
Description
SOCIETY OF BEAUX ARTS ARCHITECTS. WINNING DESIGNS 1904-1927 PARIS PRIZE IN ARCHITECTURE. New York: Pencil Points Press, 1928. Folio. Portfolio. (iv) pages, 35 plates 22 of which are double page. The prize winning designs selected by the Society of Beaux Arts Architect fro 1904 to 1929 for a variety of public monuments. Portfolio slightly worn; name ink on verso of each plate.
No image available

INDIA, PAINTINGS FROM AJANTA CAVES by (UNESCO)

7 to 14 days for delivery
Standard Shipping: $2.50
Details
$75.00
( US$)
Seller: The Bookpress, Ltd.
Title
INDIA, PAINTINGS FROM AJANTA CAVES
Author
(UNESCO)
Seller
The Bookpress, Ltd. (United States)
Description
Singh, Madanjeet. (UNESCO) INDIA, PAINTINGS FROM AJANTA CAVES. N.P.: New York Graphic Society, (1954). Folio. Boards, dust jacket. 10, (6) pages, 32 color plates. First edition. Volume one of the Unesco World Art Series, with preface by Jawaharlal Nehru a introduction by Madanjeet Singh. Minor occasional foxing, else very good in worn dust jacket.
No image available

Upper California by Kunzel, Heinrich

7 to 14 days for delivery
Standard Shipping: $4.99
Details
$90.00
( EU VAT US$0)
Seller: Argonaut Book Shop
Title
Upper California
Author
Kunzel, Heinrich
Seller
Argonaut Book Shop (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1967 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Limited to 450 copies produced by Mallette Dean and James Beard. Translated from the German by Anthony & Max Knight. Introduction by Carroll D. Hall. Portrait, plate, facsimiles, endpaper map; woodcut decorations by Mallette Dean. Brick cloth, paper spine label; pictorial label on front cover. A fine copy. Reprinted from the first German pamphlet printed to promote emigration to California (1848). Because of its early date, it was an important source of information for the German gold seeker. The map shows the Sutter holdings on the Sacramento and Feather rivers, while the plate diagrams Sutter's fort at New Helvetia as it existed in 1847. [Kurutz: 385-b]. With prospectus laid in..
No image available

WILLIAM MORRIS: SEIN LEBEN UND WERK IN DER GESCHICHTE DER BUCH- UND SCHRIFTKUNST by Zapf, Hermann

7 to 14 days for delivery
Standard Shipping: $8.50
Details
$90.00
( EU VAT US$0)
Seller: Oak Knoll Books/Oak Knoll Press
Title
WILLIAM MORRIS: SEIN LEBEN UND WERK IN DER GESCHICHTE DER BUCH- UND SCHRIFTKUNST
Author
Zapf, Hermann
Seller
Oak Knoll Books/Oak Knoll Press (United States)
Description
Scharbeutz: Klaus Blanckertz, 1949. quarter cloth with laid paper-covered boards and pictoral label on front cover, dust jacket. Morris, William. 4to. quarter cloth with laid paper-covered boards and pictoral label on front cover, dust jacket. 62+(1) pages. First edition. Fine in fine jacket. The introduction, the only portion of the book simultaneously translated into English and German, states, "This monograph is intended to make the Germans more closely acquainted with William Morris the man and with his longing and striving for the truth of art...at the same time appreciating his eminent part in the recent German art of the book since the turn of the century and pointing to the important suggestions Morris in turn received from the works of our German mediaeval printers." Text printed in double columns with red chapter headings and shoulder notes in the style of Morris's perhaps most renowned publication, the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Title page printed in red and black. Woodcut portrait frontispiece of Morris tipped-in. Section of black and white plates at back with red captions in English represent the range of Morris's artistic talents, illustrating his paintings, stained glass window designs, wall-paper and tapestry patterns as well as a number of facsimiles of his book designs.
Ripley Under Water

Ripley Under Water by Highsmith, Patricia

4 to 7 days for delivery
Standard Shipping: $4.95
Details
$75.00
( EU VAT US$0)
Seller: Brenner's Collectable Books
Title
Ripley Under Water
Author
Highsmith, Patricia
Seller
Brenner's Collectable Books (United States)
ISBN
9780747510048
Condition
Near Fine
Description
New York: Bloomsbury, 1991. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo., 247pp. Beautiful First Edition with "First published in 1991" on copyright page with full number sequence. Bound in blue cloth with titles in gold on spine. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear save a hint at the heel but barely. Page edges mildly toned. Equally attractive unclipped dust-jacket, (£13.99), is fresh and bright with no chipping, creases, toning or tears. A gorgeous collectable copy at a great price.
No image available

English Country House: One Hundred Plates

7 to 14 days for delivery
Standard Shipping: $12.99
Details
$29.97
( EU VAT US$0)
Seller: Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
Title
English Country House: One Hundred Plates
Seller
Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (United States)
Condition
VG
Description
Boston, MA: Bates & Guild Company, 1898. Hardbound. VG. Green printed portfolio with ties. Index sheet listing all the illustrations, followed by 100 plates containing usually 2 photographs per sheet. There appears to be no accompanying text to these plates in any description I can find. Complete, and a nice copy with ties intact.
No image available

OCTOBER 1973: THE ARAB-ISRAELI WAR by Aker, Frank

7 to 10 days for delivery
Standard Shipping: $6.50
Details
$24.50
( EU VAT US$0)
Seller: Hoffman Books
Title
OCTOBER 1973: THE ARAB-ISRAELI WAR
Author
Aker, Frank
Seller
Hoffman Books (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Hamden, Connecticut: Archon Books. Very Good. 1985. Hardcover. 02080206677 . Introduction by Maj. Gen. George S. Patton U. S. Army (Ret.). Ex-library, usual markings, dust jacket pasted to endpages, otherwise contents are bright, clean and complete. .

Hang on… we’re fetching the requested page.