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Author: (Barry, Charles)
Title: Illustrations of the New Palace of Westminster. Charles Barry, Esq., R.A., architect. From drawings by J.Johnson, F.S.A., and G.Somers Clarke, architects, and John Thomas, sculptor.
Publication: London, Warrington & Son 1849.
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Author: (Birmingham Architectural Association )
Title: Birmingham Architectural Association Sketch Book. Vol.2. 1878.
Publication: Birmingham, J.L.Allday 1878 (but 1878-80).
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£160
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Author: (Bowles) Allan, Mea
Title: E.A.Bowles & his garden at Myddelton House 1865-1954.
Publication: London, Faber and Faber 1973.
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£14
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Author: (Buckler, John Chessell)
Title: Observations on the original architecture of Saint Mary Magdalen College, Oxford ; and on the innovations anciently or recently attempted.
Publication: London, “printed by and for John Nichols and Son ... and sold by Joseph Parker, Oxford” 1823.
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£280
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Author: (Cheltenham Literary and Philosophical Institution)
Title: Gallery of paintings, sculpture, curiosities, & &.
Publication: (No imprint, but Cheltenham, 1841).
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£85
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Author: (Disney, John)
Title: Memoirs of Thomas Brand-Hollis, Esq. F.R.S. and S.A. Amicitiae sacrum.
Publication: London, “printed by T.Gillet, Crown-Court, Fleet-Street” 1808.
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£650
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Author: (Donaldson, Thomas Leverton)
Title: Institute of British Architects. Questions upon various subjects connected with architecture, suggested for the direction of correspondents and travellers, and for the purpose...
Publication: London, G.Woodfall 1835.
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£280
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Author: (Gould, John)
Title: A dictionary of painters, sculptors, architects, and engravers, containing biographical sketches of the most celebrated artists, from the earliest ages to the present time ; to...
Publication: London, “printed for Gale and Curtis, Paternoster-Row, and sold by all booksellers” 1810.
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£95
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Author: (Hooker) Desmond, Ray
Title: Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker traveller and plant collector. Preface by Sir Ghillean Prance.
Publication: Woodbridge, Antique Collectors Club (with Royal Botanic Garden, Kew) 1999.
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£20
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Author: (Houses of Parliament)
Title: Catalogue of the cartoons sent in, pursuant to the notices issued by Her Majesty’s Commissioners on the Fine Arts, for exhibition in Westminster Hall.
Publication: London, William Clowes for HMSO 1843.
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£100
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Author: (Hulbert, C., ed.)
Title: The parlour book of British scenery, architecture and antiquities ; being a series of select descriptions of towns, villages, public buildings, gentlemens’ seats, castles, colleges,...
Publication: Shrewsbury, “printed and published by C.Hulbert” 1827, 1828.
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£850
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Author: (Jekyll) Massingham, Betty
Title: Gertrude Jekyll. An illustrated life of Gertrude Jekyll 1843-1932.
Publication: Princes Risborough, Shire Publications Ltd 1980.
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£5
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Author: (Jobbins, J.R.)
Title: A series of executed examples of ecclesiastical and domestic structures, from the designs of modern architects.
Publication: London, Atchley & Co 1858.
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£785
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Author: (Linnaeus) Blunt, Wilfrid
Title: The compleat naturalist. A life of Linnaeus.
Publication: London, Collins 1971.
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£10
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Author: (Loos) Kulka, Heinrich
Title: Adolf Loos. Das Werk des Architekten.
Publication: Wien, Anton Schroll & Co 1931 (Neues Bauen in der Welt IV).
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£380
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Author: (Marquand, Charles)
Title: Remarks on the different constructions of bridges, and improvements to secure their foundations on the different soils where they are intended to be built. Which hitherto seems...
Publication: London, the author 1749.
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£1,450
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Author: (Paxton)
Title: Sir Joseph Paxton 1803-1865. A centenary exhibition organized in association with the Victorian Society.
Publication: London, Arts Council 1965.
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£10
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Author: (Robinson) Allan, Mea
Title: William Robinson 1838-1935. Father of the English flower garden.
Publication: London, Faber & Faber 1982.
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£25
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Author: (Rudiments)
Title: The rudiments of ancient architecture, in two parts. Containing a historical account of the five orders ... also Vitruvius on the temples and intercolumniations ... calculated...
Publication: London, “printed for I. & J.Taylor, at the Architectural Library, Holborn” 1789.
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£285
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Author: (Senate of Italy, Milan)
Title: Festa del Senato Consulente per la pace di Vienna e pel ritorno dalla guerra di S.A.I. il Principo Vicerè decreta il giornio 4 Novembre 1809 celebrata il giorno 24 Febbraio 1810.
Publication: Milano, Stamperia Reale 1810.
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£800
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Author: (Weinreb Catalogues) (Breman, Paul, compiler)
Title: The Weinreb catalogues : an annotated index.
Publication: London, Paul Breman Ltd 1969.
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£35
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Author: (West) G(alt), J(ohn)
Title: A description of Mr.West’s picture of Death on the Pale Horse ; or the opening of the first five seals : exhibited under the immediate patronage of His Royal Highness the Prince Regent,...
Publication: London, printed by C.H.Reynell 1818.
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£120
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Author: (Whately, Thomas)
Title: Observations on modern gardening, illustrated by descriptions.
Publication: London, T.Payne 1770.
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£645
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Author: Adams, William Howard
Title: The French garden 1500-1800.
Publication: London, Scolar Press 1979.
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£15
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Author: Amati, Carlo
Title: Succinte memorie intorno le sedici antiche colonne presso S.Lorenzo ... nella circostanza della ricostruzione e riordinamento del corso di Porta Ticinese. Coll’ ordine progressivo...
Publication: Milano, Luigi di Giacomo Pirola 1831.
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£780
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Author: Atthill, Rev. William
Title: Documents relating to the foundation and antiquities of the collegiate church of Middleham, in the county of York ; with an historical introduction, and incidental notices of the...
Publication: London, “printed for the Camden Society by John Bowyer Nichols and Son” 1847.
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£28
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Author: Bates, H.E.
Title: A fountain of flowers. Colour plates by Patrick Matthews.
Publication: London, Michael Joseph 1974.
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£8
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Author: Berrall, Julia S.
Title: The garden. An illustrated history.
Publication: Harmondsworth, Penguin Books 1978.
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£10
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Author: Bloom, Alan
Title: Plantsman’s progress.
Publication: Lavenham, Terence Dalton Ltd 1976.
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£10
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Author: Bloxam, Matthew Holbeche
Title: Companion to the principles of Gothic ecclesiastical architecture, being a brief account of the vestments in use in the church, prior to, and the changes therein and from, the reign...
Publication: London, George Bell &Son 1882.
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£10
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Author: Bloxam, Matthew Holbeche
Title: Essays on church vestments the arrangement of churches and sepulchral monuments.
Publication: London, George Bell & Sons 1903.
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£10
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Author: British Institution for Promoting the Fine Arts
Title: Catalogue of the works of British artists in the gallery of the British Institution, Pall-Mall, for exhibition and sale.
Publication: London, printed by William Nicol 1844.
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£95
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Author: Brown, Jane
Title: Sissinghurst. Portrait of a garden, Photographs by John Miller.
Publication:
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£12
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Author: Brown, Jane
Title: The English garden in our time. From Gertrude Jekyll to Geoffrey Jellicoe.
Publication: Woodbridge, Antique Collectors Club 1986.
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£14
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Author: Cambiagi, Gaetano
Title: Descrizione dell’imperiale giardino di Boboli.
Publication: Firenze, Stamperia Imperiale 1757.
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£695
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Author: Carter, Thomas John Proctor
Title: King’s College chapel : notes on its history and present condition.
Publication: London and Cambridge, Macmillan and Co 1867.
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£100
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Author: Chivers, Susan, & Woloszynska, Suzanne
Title: The cottage garden. Margery Fish at East Lambrook Manor. Photographs by Peter Woloszynski.
Publication: London, John Murray 1990.
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£10
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Author: Connolly, Sybil, & Dillon, Helen
Title: In an Irish garden. Photographs by Walter Pfeiffer.
Publication: London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1986.
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£15
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Author: Cowan, J.Macqueen
Title: The journeys and plant introductions of George Forrest VMH.
Publication: London, Oxford University Press for Royal Horticultural Society 1952.
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£40
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Author: Cowan, May
Title: Inverewe. A garden in the north-west highlands.
Publication: London, Geoffrey Bles 1964.
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£10
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Author: Cox, E.H.M.
Title: Plant-hunting in China. A history of botanical exploration in China and the Tibetan marches.
Publication: London, Collins 1945.
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£10
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Author: Dodwell, Henry
Title: De parma equestri Woodwardiana dissertatio. Accedit Thomae Neli dialogus inter Reginam Elizabetham & Robertum Dudleium, Comitem Leycestriae & Academiae Oxoniensis Cancellarium,...
Publication: Oxford, “e Theatro Sheldoniano” 1723 (”impensis editoris”).
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£715
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Author: Dunkin, John
Title: Oxfordshire. The history and antiquities of the hundreds of Bullington and Ploughley.
Publication: London, Harding, Mavor and Lepard 1823
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£650
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Author: Dutton, Ralph
Title: The English garden. Illustrated from old prints, pictures and drawings, and from photographs by Will F.Taylor and others. Second edition revised.
Publication: London, B.T.Batsford Ltd 1945.
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£0
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Author: Flindall, John Morris
Title: The amateur’s pocket companion ; or, a description of scarce and valuable engraved British portraits. Also of the rare or curious books, as mentioned in the works of Granger, Bromley,...
Publication: London, “printed for, and sold by, J.M.Flindall” (and others) 1813.
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£95
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Author: Flindall, John Morris
Title: The amateur’s pocket companion ; or, a description of scarce and valuable engraved British portraits. Also of the rare or curious books, as mentioned in the works of Granger, Bromley,...
Publication: London, “printed for, and sold by, J.M.Flindall” (and others) 1813.
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£95
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Author: Friedman, Terry
Title: Epstein’s Rima. ‘The Hyde Park Atrocity’. Creation and controversy.
Publication: Leeds, Henry Moore Centre 1988.
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£25
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Author: Galinou Mireille (ed)
Title: London’s pride. The glorious history of the capital’s gardens. Introduction by Sir Roy Strong.
Publication: London, Anaya Publishers Ltd 1990.
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£14
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Author: Galli, Florido
Title: Saggio d’architettura rurale sviluppato in vari progetti con alcuni cenni per regolarne le costruzioni e con una raccolta d’elementi utile a redigere le perizie di previsione.
Publication: Pisa, Tipographia Nistri 1840.
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£425
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Author: Gatty, Alfred Scott
Title: The first book of the marriage, baptismal, and burial registers of Ecclesfield parish church, Yorkshire, from 1558 to 1619 ; also the churchwardens’ accounts, from 1520 to 1646.
Publication: London, Bell and Sons (and Sheffield, Leader and Sons) 1878.
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£75
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Author: Hadfield, Miles
Title: The English landscape garden.
Publication: Princes Risborough, Shire Publications Ltd 1977.
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£8
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Author: Hadfield, Miles
Title: Pioneers in gardening. Illustrated by the author.
Publication: London, Routledge and Kegan Paul 1955.
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£10
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Author: Harris, John
Title: A catalogue of British drawings for architecture, decoration, sculpture and landscape gardening 1550-1900 in American collections.
Publication: Upper Saddle River, N.J., Gregg Press 1971.
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£165
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Author: Hawksmoor, Nicholas
Title: A short historical account of London-Bridge ; with a proposition for a new stone-bridge at Westminster. As also an account of some remarkable stone-bridges abroad ... illustrated...
Publication: London, “printed for J,Wilcox, at Virgil’s Head, against the New Church in the Strand” 1736.
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£1,350
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Author: Headley, Gwyn, & Meulenkamp, Wim
Title: Follies.
Publication: London, Jonathan Cape 1990.
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£6
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Author: Headley, Gwyn, & Meulenkamp, Wim
Title: Follies.
Publication: London, Jonathan Cape 1990.
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£6
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Author: Hepper, F.Nigel (ed)
Title: Plant hunting for Kew, Foreword by Sir David Attenborough.
Publication: London, HMSO 1989.
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£15
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Author: Hoare, Sir Richard Colt
Title: Tumuli Wiltunienses ; a guide to the barrows on the plains of Stonehenge.
Publication: Shaftesbury, “printed by J.Rutter” 1829.
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£120
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Author: Hoare, Sir Richard Colt
Title: Hints on the topography of Wiltshire.
Publication: Salisbury, “printed by Messrs.Brodie and Downing, on the Canal” (1818).
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£95
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Author: Hoare, Sir Richard Colt
Title: The Pitney pavement, discovered by Samuel Hasell, Esq. of Littleton, A.D.1828 ; and illustrated from his notes, by Sir Richard Colt Hoare, Bart.
Publication: (London), J.B.Nichols and Son 1832.
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£120
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Author: Hyams, Edward
Title: The English garden. Photographs by Edwin Smith.
Publication: London, Thames and Hudson 1964.
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£20
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Author: Hyams, Edward
Title: Irish gardens. Text by Edward Hyams. Photographs by William MacQuitty. With a foreword by the Earl of Antrim.
Publication: London, Macdonald 1967.
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£18
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Author: Ingram, Collingwood
Title: A garden of memories.
Publication: London, H.F. & G.Witherby Ltd 1970.
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£25
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Author: Jekyll, Gertrude
Title: Colour schemes for the flower garden. Eighth edition.
Publication: London, Country Life Ltd 1936.
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£25
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Author: Jekyll, Gertrude & Weaver, Lawrence
Title: Gardens for small country houses.
Publication: Woodbridge, Antique Collectors Club 1981.
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£25
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Author: Jewell, H.H. & F.W. Hasluck
Title: The church of Our Lady of the Hundred Gates (Panagia Hekatonpyliani) in Paros.
Publication: London, Macmillan (for Byzantine Research and Publication Fund) 1920.
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£280
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Author: Labarte, Jules
Title: Handbook of the arts of the middle ages and renaissance, as applied to the decoration of furniture, arms, jewels, & &. Translated from the French of M.Jules Labarte. With notes &. copiously...
Publication: London, John Murray 1855.
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£48
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Author: Lawton, George
Title: The religious houses of Yorkshire.
Publication: London, Simpkin & Co 1853.
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£65
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Author: Le Corbusier
Title: L’art décoratif de l’aujourd’hui. 7e édition.
Publication: Paris, G. Crès & Cie nd (1925).
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£190
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Author: Lipking, Lawrence
Title: The ordering of the arts in eighteenth-century England.
Publication: Princeton, Princeton University Press 1970.
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£15
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Author: Lloyd, Christopher
Title: The year at Great Dixter.
Publication: London, Viking 1987.
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£15
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Author: Lloyd, Christopher
Title: Foliage plants.
Publication: London, Collins 1973.
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£12
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Author: Lloyd, Christopher
Title: The adventurous gardener. Photographs by Pamela Toler.
Publication: London, Allen Lane 1983.
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£10
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Author: Lloyd, Christopher
Title: The well-tempered garden.
Publication: London, London, Collins 1971 (”third impression”).
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£12
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Author: Lloyd, Christopher
Title: Clematis.
Publication: London, Garden Book Club Ltd (1965 ?).
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£8
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Author: Massingham, Betty
Title: A century of gardeners.
Publication: London, Faber and Faber 1982.
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£10
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Author: Opie, John
Title: Lectures on painting, delivered at the Royal Academy of Arts : with a letter on the proposal for a public memorial of the naval glory of Great Britain ... to which are prefixed, a memoir...
Publication: London, Longman (etc) 1809.
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£295
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Author: Perenyi, Eleanor
Title: Green thoughts. A writer in the garden.
Publication: London, Allen Lane 1982.
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£8
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Author: Philipott, Thomas
Title: Villare Cantianum ; or, Kent surveyed and illustrated. being an exact description of all the parishes, boroughs, villages, and other respective manors in the county of Kent ... to...
Publication: Lynn, W.Whittingham (and others) 1776.
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£650
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Author: Pratt, Anne
Title: The ferns of Great Britain, and their allies the club-mosses, pepperworts, and horsetails.
Publication: London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowl;edge nd (early 1850s).
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£140
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Author: Richardson, Ruth & Thorne, Robert
Title: The Builder. Illustrations index 1843-1883.
Publication: London, The Builder Group & Hutton & Rostron 1994.
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£125
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Author: Robinson, William
Title: The English flower garden. Design and arrangement shown by existing examples of gardens in Great Britain and Ireland followed by a description of the best plants for the open-air...
Publication: London, John Murray 1898.
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£25
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Author: Salmon, André
Title: L’art Russe moderne. Preface par André Salmon.
Publication: Paris, Editions Laville 1928.
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£125
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Author: Saville, Diana
Title: Gardens for small country houses.
Publication: London, Viking 1988.
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£10
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Author: Shaw, Richard Norman & Jackson, T.G. (eds.)
Title: Architecture a profession or an art. Thirteen short essays on the qualifications and training of architects.
Publication: London, John Murray 1892.
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£170
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Author: Smith, James
Title: Specimens of ancient carpentry, consisting of framed roofs, selected from various ancient buildings, public & private, also some specimens of mouldings for cornices, doors & windows,...
Publication: London, J.Seago 1 June 1787 (but reissue of 1820s or later ?).
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£1,650
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Author: Sowerby, John E. (and Johnson, Charles)
Title: The ferns of Great Britain : illustrated by John E.Sowerby, proprietor of Sowerby’s English Botany. The descriptions, synonyms, &. by Charles Johnson. (With) The fern allies : a...
Publication: London, John E.Sowerby 1855, 1856.
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£220
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Author: Starforth, John
Title: The architecture of the park. A series of designs comprising plans, elevations, perspective views, and details required by the various dependants and purposes on an estate, and...
Publication: Edinburgh, Banks & Co 1890.
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£350
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Author: Survey of London
Title: Survey of London. Vol. XXIX. The Parish of St. James Westminster. Part one: south of Piccadilly.
Publication: London, The Athlone Press for London County Council 1960.
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£95
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Author: Taut, Bruno
Title: Houses and people of Japan.
Publication: Tokyo, The Sanseido Co Ltd (1937).
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£580
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Author: Tenison, Edward ; Farrant, Henry ; James, John
Title: (Tenison) The true copies of some letters, occasion’d by the demand for dilapidations in the archiepiscopal see of Canterbury. Part I (Part II) ; (Farrant) A letter to Mr Archdeacon...
Publication: (London), “printed in the year 1716” (first two items) ; (London), “printed in the year 1717” ; London, “printed by William Hunter in Jewin Street MDCCXVII’’ (i.e., in 1717).
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£640
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Author: Terry, Henry
Title: A Victorian flower album. God’s floral gems glistening on the verdant face of nature. Collected and painted in the summer evenings of 1873 as a pleasing recreation.
Publication: London, Allen Lane 1978.
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£12
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Author: Thomas, Graham Stuart
Title: Plants for ground-cover.
Publication: London, J.M.Dent & Sons Ltd 1971.
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£10
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Author: Thomas, Graham Stuart
Title: Cuttings from my garden notebooks. Introduction by David Wheeler. Foreword by Allen Lacy.
Publication: London, John Murray 1997.
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£14
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Author: Turner,T.Hudson (and Parker, John Henry)
Title: Some account of domestic architecture in England, from the Conquest to the end of the thirteenth century (from Edward I to Richard II ; from Richard II to Henry VIII).
Publication: Oxford, John Henry Parker 1851,1853 ; John Henry & James Parker 1859.
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£150
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Author: V(ertue), G(eorge)
Title: A royal family-piece representing King Henry VII of England and his Queen Elizabeth of York (etc) ; A description of four ancient paintings, being historical portraitures of royal...
Publication: (No publisher’s imprint, first item dated 20 December 1740 on f.12, other items later 1740s - early 1750s ?).
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£540
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Author: Vaudoyer, A.L.T.
Title: Description du theatre de Marcellus, rétabli dans son état primitif, d’après le vestiges qui en restent encore : mémoire joint aux plans, coupes, élévations et détails mesurés à...
Publication: Paris, Dusillion 1812.
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£625
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Author: Vignola, Giacomo Barozzi da
Title: Regola delli cinque ordini d’architettura ... con aggiunta di alcune porte ... e con una brevissima pratica intorno a’ frontespizi, agl’ edifici, porte, finestre, cortili, scale,...
Publication: Roma, 1763 (”e si vendono in Napoli da Saverio Rossi attaccato al Campanile di S.Chiara”).
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£620
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Author: Willis, Robert & Clark, John Willis
Title: The architectural history of the University of Cambridge, and of the colleges of Cambridge and Eton… edited with large additions and brought up to the present time by John Willis Clark.
Publication: Cambridge, University Press 1886.
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£380
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Author: Wren, Christopher
Title: Parentalia : or, memoirs of the family of the Wrens ... but chiefly of Sir Christopher Wren, late Surveyor-General of the Royal Buildings .. compiled, by his son Christopher (etc).
Publication: London,T.Osborn & R.Dodsley 1751 (facsimile reprint, Gregg Press Limited
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£195
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