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NY: A. O. Moore. G/NO DUSTJACKET. 1859. Hardcover. 8vo., Front cover has tape repair on hinge .

New York: C.M. Saxton And Company, 1857. Fifth Edition enlarged. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth decorated in blind. Very good   . 532 pages (2). 24 x 15.5 cm. Enlarged and newly illustrated,eighteen sixteen plates including frontispiece with copious illustrations in the text. Originally published 1841. HITCHCOCK 364. KARPEL B528. "This is the first book devoted entirely to landscape gardening and rural architecture in America, and one of the most influential books ever published in the history of American art and taste." Scattered foxing, binding tight. General Index. Loss backstrip head and foot. Bookplate inside front cover paste down Awarded By The American Institute.

New York: Orange Judd Agricultural Book Publishers, 1865. Seventh Edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth front cover and spine decorted in gilt. Near fube. 576 pages. 23 x 15.5 cm. Enlarged, Revised and Newly Illustrated. With a Supplement by Henry Winthrop Sargent Frontispiece, Host of full page and smaller wood engraved illustrations. Downing is widely considered the be the greatest single figure in American horticulture, later influencing the work of Frederick Law Olmstead and Calvert Vaux. Downing's book is additionally important as the first example of the "new" pattern book, "This is the first book devoted entirely to landscape gardening and rural architecture in America, and one of the most influential books ever published in the history ofHH American art and taste." HITCHCOCK 367. KARPEL B528. Slight nicks to backstrip head and foot. Interior contents clean.

New York: Orange Judd & Company. Fine copy in the original decorated cloth. 1875. 9th ed.. hardcover. 8vo, 592 pp., Bright copy in green cloth with gilt stampings on spine and front panel., The ninth edition with two supplements by Henry Winthrop Sargent. .

New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1844. Second edition. Hardcover. Orig. gray/green cloth decorated in blind, backstrip lettered and decorated in gilt. Very good. 497 pages. 24 x 15.5 cm. Second edition, enlarged and newly illustrated, sixteen plates including frontispiece with copious illustrations in the text. Originally published 1841. HITCHCOCK 355. KARPEL B528. "This is the first book devoted entirely to landscape gardening and rural architecture in America, and one of the most influential books ever published in the history of American art and taste." Clean copy, text and plates uniformly free of foxing. Nicks to joints at backstrip head. Small stamp of Israel A. Bierce front cover pastedown.