Search Results: Landscape from Mike Park Ltd

Monte dei Paschi of Siena Well illustrated, including three folding plates, tall quarto, not paginated (c.100 pages), very slightly age-toned internally, brown boards, embossed title on upper cover, slightly worn, the lower cover a little faded, a slight tear to the head of the front joint, otherwise a good copy. SCARCE. . First English edition. Boards. Good.

Sydney: Mulavon Publications, 1973. Well illustrated, large octavo, pp 255, fore-edge slightly thumbed, very slightly worn internally, pictorial boards slightly used. . First Edition. Pictorial boards. Good.

Washington: Spacemaker Press, 1998. Well illustrated throughout, large horizontal quarto, pp 128, a very good clean copy in a dustwrapper showing just the slightest signs of shelf wear.. First Edition. Cloth. As New/Very Slightly rubbed.

New York: Columbia University Press, 1981. A few illustrations, octavo, pp xii, 353, the first few pages are faintly creased vertically, top edge a little foxed otherwise very clean internally, green cloth very good, the dustwrapper is a little used and rubbed with one small tear, the front foldover is creased and price-clipped.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Slightly worn and rubbed.

Kew Publishing, 2017. First edition. Very well illustrated, quarto, pp 348, pictorial boards, a very good clean copy, almost as new. ["England has more ancient native oak trees than the rest of Europe combined. How did that come about? The reasons are all historical, and nothing to do with climate or soil factors. This story goes back to the Norman conquest of England in 1066. They created Royal Forests, chases and deer parks, where only the nobility could hunt or keep deer and it was forbidden to cut the trees. This was, if you like, an early form of nature conservation, but for the sake of privileged hunting. Preservation of these oaks further continued through a combination of private ownership of thousands of parks, conservatism of the landowners, overseas timber availability and the absence of ruining wars on the English landscape; the majority of which had been confined to the continent. Modernisation of forestry in England only took hold after 1920, and by that stage too late to destroy… Read More

Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1977. Illustrated, large horizontal octavo, pp 155, green cloth, a very good copy. [Muskau Park is a landscape park in the Upper Lusatia region of Germany and Poland. It is the largest and one of the most famous English gardens in Central Europe, stretching along both sides of the German-Polish border on the Lusatian Neisse. The park was laid out from 1815 onwards at the behest of Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau (1785-1871), centered on his Schloss Muskau residence. The park covers 3.5 square kilometers (1.4 sq mi) of land in Poland and 2.1 km2 (0.81 sq mi) in Germany. It extends on both sides of the Neisse, which constitutes the border between the countries. The 17.9 km2 (6.9 sq mi) buffer zone around the park encompassed the German town Bad Muskau in the West and Leknica in the East. While Muskau Castle is situated west of the river, the heart of the park is the partially wooded raised areas on the east bank called The Park on Terraces. In 2003 a… Read More

New York: Crown Publishers, 1962. Well illustrated, small quarto, pp 176, slightly age-toned, fore-edge a little foxed, an old remainder mark on the bottom edge, the title page a little more foxed and slightly marked in the gutter margin, cream cloth very slightly aged, the dustwrapper is not price-clipped but is chipped, creased and frayed, with a piece missing from the top of the upper cover. [Andre Le Notre (12 March 1613 – 15 September 1700), originally rendered as Andre Le Nostre, was a French landscape architect and the principal gardener of King Louis XIV of France. Most notably, he was the landscape architect who designed the park of the Palace of Versailles, and his work represents the height of the French formal garden style, or jardin a la française. Prior to working on Versailles, Le Notre collaborated with Louis Le Vau and Charles Le Brun on the park at Vaux-le-Vicomte. His other works include the design of gardens and parks at Chantilly, Fontainebleau, Saint-Cloud and… Read More

Leningrad: Editions d'Art Aurora, 1984. French text. Very well illustrated, tall quarto, pp 148, very clean internally, grey cloth in very good condition, the dustwrapper is a little worn and frayed with two internal sellotape repairs. [Arkhangelskoye is a historical estate in Krasnogorsky District, Moscow Oblast, Russia, located around 20 km to the west of Moscow and 2 km southwest of Krasnogorsk. From 1703 to 1810, Arkhangelskoye belonged to the Golitsyns. In 1810, Prince Nikolai Yusupov bought the estate, which stayed in the Yusupov family until the Russian Revolution. In 1917, the Yusupovs' property was nationalized by the Bolsheviks. Today, Arkhangelskoye is a state museum. The estate is built in a neoclassical style by Jacob Guerne, with the prominent palace facing the Moscow river and a regular terraced park decorated with many antique statues. Other structures of note include a small palace named the Caprice, monuments to Catherine the Great and Alexander Pushkin and an 18th-century… Read More

Norwood; Stationers' Hall Court, London: The Author; Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co Ltd Quarto, illustrated with 22 plates, pp (4], 116, deckle-edged, top edge gilt, endpapers a bit foxed and age-toned, the ten sepia plates are foxed on their versos but the plates thenselves show only very faint traces, the blank pages facing the plates have a little offsetting, there is a marginal tear to the plate facing page 37, green cloth slightly scuffed, the corners rubbed, the spine slightly pulled at head and tail. Overall though still a very presentable copy. SCARCE. {The book contains 22 leaves of plates. Ten of these are etched views of gardens or features of garden scenery, one of them named as a view of Keszthely. The other ten are lithographed plans, two (facing each other between pp. 54 and 55) uncoloured, and eight (including two double-page spreads mounted on stubs) with beige and green tint. Among these are plans of the Buxton Pavilion grounds, Stoke Cemetery, Keszthely, and… Read More

New York: F.W. Dodge Corporation, 1956. Illustrated, large octavo, pp 278, slightly used internally, bound in a later library green cloth, slightly worn. [With the neat owner's stamp of the botanist Ralph Earl Ecklund. the blindstamp of Andrew Collier Durham - possibly the architect ? - and the blindstamp of the University of Delaware]. A good working copy. . First Edition. Cloth. Fair.

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997. Very well illustrated, quarto, pp (12), 352, very clean internally, blue cloth in good condition, the dustwrapper is slightly worn and slightly wrinkled round the edges. [A heavy book - extra postage may be needed]. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Slightly worn.

Tokyo, 1988. Well illustrated, quarto, pp 140, very bright and clean internally, paperback with a very slightly faded dustwrapper, a very good copy. . Paperback. Very Good/Very Slightly faded..

Sagaponack, New York: Sagapress Inc, 1985. Illustrated, large octavo, pp viii, 215, top edge and fore-edge foxed, lower corners damp-wrinkled, the pages generally a little "waved", paperback, the rear cover and the last few pages bruised; still a good usabel working copy. . Paperback. Fair.

Edinburgh and London: Oliver & Boyd, 1924. Well illustrated, small thick quarto, pp xx, 316, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed, very slightly used internally, blue cloth a little worn and scuffed, the head and tail of the spine pulled. A heavy book - extra postage may be necessary for some areas.. First Edition. Cloth. Good.

London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1985. Illustrated, large octavo, pp 204, pages very slightly age-toned at the margins, a neat name and date on the front endpaper, otherwise very clean internally, binding leaning very slightly otherwise brown cloth in very good condition, in a very slightly worn dustwrapper.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Slightly Worn.

London: Collins, 1952. First edition. Illustrated, octavo, pp xviii, 314, + 4 pages publisher's advertisements, fore-edge very slightly foxed and age-toned,endpapers slightly foxed, otherwise clean internally, green cloth slightly marked, the lower corner of the front cover very slightly bruised; the dustwrapper is not price-clipped, it is slightly age-toned, the spine is slightly faded, there is a closed-tear to the top of the spine and a small er one to the bottom of the rear cover, it is now in a removable clear cover.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Slightly worn and torn.

Cambridge University Press, 1973. Illustrated, large octavo, pp xvi, 335, a folding map at the rear, clean internally, black cloth in very good condition, the dustwrapper is not price-clipped, but is very slightly worn. [From the library of the naturalist and conservationist Richard Fitter, with his stamp on the front endpaper.]. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Very Slightly Worn.

Calcutta: Indian Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage, 2007. Illustrated with maps and a few photographs, small octavo, pp viii, 420, only very slight signs of use internally, paperback, the covers slightly worn. Extremely scarce. [Contents Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction and theoretical basis. 2. The idea of landscape. 3. The historical development of Darjeeling. 4. The physical landscape. 5. The social landscape. 6. Conclusions. Bibliography. Appendices. Glossary. Questionnaires. Abbreviations. Index. The book analyses the contested landscapes of the Indian hill station of Darjeeling from the British period to contemporary times as a form of urban and socio cultural construction and symbolic landscape that developed due to power relations among the various ethnic and migrant groups who settled there. It lays an emphasis on their perception of the Darjeeling landscape as a means of controlling spaces within a dominating vision and takes into account the physical and social aspects of the town.].… Read More

London: Thames & Hudson, 2006. Very well illustrated, small quarto, pp 272, a very good copy in dustwrapper. [A comprehensive critical guide to land and environmental works, sculpture parks and site-specific installations worldwide. A highly accessible read, boasting stunning photography and designed to be practical and informative too. Fifty key destinations featured in substantial essays, and a further 150 sites given concise descriptions. Set to become the standard reference work on a subject whose significance and appeal attracts wide audiences.]. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good.

London & New York: The Macmillan Company, 1968. 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.]. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Slightly Worn.