<div>Carmontelle's landmark publication, Garden at Monceau, beautifully reproduced to show the Parisian garden's artistic and cultural importance before the French Revolution. Originally published in 1779, Garden at Monceau is a richly illustrated presentation of the garden Louis Carrogis, known as Carmontelle, designed on the eve of the French Revolution for Louis-Philippe-Joseph d'Orléans, duc de Chartres. With its array of architectural follies intended to surprise and amaze the visitor, the garden was a setting for ancien régime social life. Carmontelle's portrayal of his work in Garden at Monceau therefore serves as an expression of a key moment in the history of European landscape design, garden architecture, and social history. This facsimile edition, with its English-language text and reproductions of the original engravings, is accompanied by essays that interpret the landscape design and examine Carmontelle's larger career as a painter and theater producer.</div>

Garden at Monceau

Arts & Photography

Carmontelle

History & Criticism

Oak Spring Garden Library

First edition. The third in a series of catalogues describing selections of the rare books and other materials in this library. This volume deals with books and manuscripts on flowers and describes 11,050 items. The ink inscriptions, bookplates and bindings of the Oak Spring copies are all described in detail. A handsome production. Very well-illustrated throughout. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. lxxiii, 427, 3 pages. cloth, dust jacket.. 4to..

An Oak Spring Flora

Science & Math

Tomasi, Lucia Tongiorgi

Biological Sciences

This magnificent compendium is the fourth in a series of catalogues describing selections of rare books and other material in the Oak Spring Garden Library, a collection assembled by Mrs. Rachel “Bunny” Lambert Mellon. Herbaria describes sixty-three books and manuscripts about herbs and includes exquisite illustrations selected from the works themselves. Spanning the fourteenth to nineteenth centuries, and featuring works by Brunfels, Culpeper, Monardes, and Linnaeus, among others, this authoritative catalogue will prove fascinating to botanists, bibliophiles, garden historians, and herbalists alike.

An Oak Spring Herbaria: Herbs and Herbals from the Fourteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries: A Selection of the Rare Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art ... Mellon (Oak Spring Garden Foundation Series)

Literature & Fiction

Willis, Tony

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