Rare, antiquarian, used & out-of-print books on Architecture, for sale at Horizon Books.

BROWN, Jane; The Art and Architecture of English Gardens; Designs for the Garden from the Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects, 1609 to the Present Day. New York, Rizzoli, 1989, First American edition, 4to [26 x 26 cm]; 320 pp, color frontis, 306 illus and plates, mostly colored, views, garden plans, etc, bibliog, index, orig cloth, gilt spine title lettering, dj, fine, clean, unmarked.

Beautifully illustrated from original watercolours, drawings, working plans, sections, etc, the author provides authoritative description of the gardens from the seventeenth century, the influence of art and nature, Victorian formal gardens, the arts and crafts movement of 1890-1914, the modern movement, classicism, garden buildings, garden ornament, Geoffrey Jillicoe's moody gardens, etc. The author is highly respected and distinguished author on gardening and gardening history topics.

US$40. bookID # 12397

CRANDELL, Gina; Nature Pictorialized; "The View" in Landscape History. Baltimore and London, The John Hopkins University Press, [1993], First Edition, 8vo [24 x 16 cm]; xii, 196 pp, bibliog, index, illus, orig cloth, gilt lettering on spine, dj, fine.

This is the first book to show the importance of art and literature in shaping landscape architecture.

US$18. bookID # 10428

ELWOOD, P. H.; American Landscape Architecture. New York, The Architectural Book Publishing Co.; Paul Wenzel & Maurice Krakow, [1924], First edition, folio [35 x 27 cm]; xx, 194, [i, ad] pp, frontis, hundreds of illus, plates from photos, garden plans, orig brown cloth, gilt title lettering, shelf wear at edges, spine ends chipped and worn, signature on endpaper, interior very good and clean in good cover.

Frederick Law Olmsted, Charles N. Lowrie, and Noel Chamberlin were the judging committee and provided advice to Elwood, who compiled this impressive work that includes some of the best examples of landscaping from various parts of the United States, done by some of the best landscape architects in the country. Most of the book consists of illustrations with an introductory essay on American Landscape Architecture. The examples are of parks, pools, private estates, public projects, etc.

US$400. bookID # 9968

HOLLISTER, Paul M, introduction by Julian Street, illus by James Preston; Famous Colonial Houses. Philadelphia, David McKay Company, 1921, First edition, 4to [31 x 23.5 cm]; 170 pp, 12 attractive color plates from paintings by Preston, orig cloth decorated in gilt with gilt title lettering on spine and front cover, t. e. g., edges rubbed, ex-library with bookplate on endpaper and a few very small inkstamps, else very good and clean.

The houses, where American history was made, each with a colored plate, include Monticello, the Haunted House, Doughoregan Manor, Jumel Mansion, Mount Vernon, Quincy Homestead, Timothy Dexter Mansion, Kendall House, Longfellow House , Cliveden, Wentworth Mansion, Pringle House.

US$12. bookID # 9128

JONES, Sydney R.; London Triumphant. London & New York, The Studio Publications, [1944], , 8vo [25 x 15.5 cm]; 278 pp, many illus from the author's sketches, index, orig blue cloth with gilt building on front cover and spine and gilt spine title lettering, signatures on margin of title page, very good.

Notable for the drawings of buildings, many of which no longer exist.

US$10. bookID # 7525

MOSSER, Monique and Georges Teyssot; The Architecture of Western Gardens; A Design History from the Renaissance to the Present Day. Cambridge, The MIT Press, [1991], First American edition, large thick 4to [28 x 25 cm]; 543 pp, over 650 illustrations, including full-page, many in color from photos, others from early sources, garden plans, index, orig cloth, spine title lettering, dj (not price clipped), fine, clean and unused condition.

A beautifully illustrated, detailed work, including over 70 essays by scholars from Europe and USA, all commissioned for this book, providing a compendium of recent research in garden scholarship. Organized chronologically and covers the humanist garden, Baroque, classical parks, picturesque, arcadian and sublime gardens of the enlightenment, eclectic garden, town and city park, leisure parks, etc, from the finest gardens as examples. It also provides new information on the personalities behind the developments, material on cabinet de curiosities, the grotesque, labyrinths, esoterica creations of Bernard Palissy, romantic fashions, trends, conservation, park restoration, etc. A large and heavy book.

US$50. bookID # 12594

PARIS, William Francklyn; Decorative Elements in Architecture; Random Observations on the Eternal Fitness of Things From a Decorative Point of View. New York, John Lane Company, 1917, First edition, 8vo [24 x 16 cm]; 152 pp, 99 plates including frontis, orig green decorated cloth, title lettering on spine and front cover, spine a little dull, very good, interior clean and fine.

A well-illustrated work including furniture, painted glass, wrought iron, tapestry, etc, as well as the principles of design, relation to history.

US$9. bookID # 9667

RAFFLES, Sir Thomas Stamford; Antiquarian, Architectural and Landscape Illustrations of The History of Java. London, Henry G. Bohn, 1830, 1844, second and best edition with most plates, the first edition was 1817, 4to, 8vo [33.5 x 26.5 & 23 x 14.5 cm]; 3 volumes including plate volume, xlviii, 536; iv, 332, clxxix pp,with large folding map, 92 plates including 10 finely hand-colored aquatints, large folding plan, music notation, other maps, tables, index, orig red cloth with title lettering on front cover or spine, plate volume spine worn, mostly lacking, light foxing on some plates, heavier on a few, colored plates clean with tissue guards, text volumes bit faded but near fine, plate volume very good.

First printed in 1817 in only 900 copies with only 66 plates, this edition being expanded to 92 plates and map. The plates are reputed to be by William Daniell. The author travelled extensively on the island. Abbey Travel 554; Tooley 391; Hill I, 245. According to Abbey, the atlas of plates was published separately for the second edition which was published in 1830 and printed in only a small number. Bastin p. 5: 'The book was got together with considerable haste and was published in 1817 in two quarto volumes. . .a total of 900 copies were published. Apart from its originality. . .the outstanding feature of the book is its 66 plates, ten or which are coloured aquatints illustrating Javanese life and costume and the Papuan boy who accompanied Raffles to England in 1816'. The plates of this edition include all the plates of the first edition plus additional plates of Javanese antiquities and topography. Prideaux: 'a monumental work. . . still a standard book'. Von Hunersdorff: 'An influential work valued for the author's firsthand observations on the customs and condition of the Javanese under his administration as Governor General during the British occupation of the Dutch East Indies'. The text volumes printed in 1830 have a great deal of data, much in tabular form including statistics, populartion, vocabularies, etc. with much of the author's text describing the people and country in great detail. from natural history and

US$4700. bookID # 8686