An Oak Spring Sylva: A Selection of the Rare Books on Trees in the Oak Spring Garden Library
by Raphael, Sandra
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0300046529
- ISBN 13
- 9780300046526
- Seller
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Kraków, Poland
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About This Item
Upperville: Oak Spring Garden Library, 1989 4to (29.5 cm), xxvii, 149 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. "An Oak Spring Sylva" is the first of a series of discursive catalogues describing selections of the rare books and other material in the Oak Spring Garden Library, a collection formed by Mrs. Paul Mellon. Each volume in the Oak Spring series will be a lovely and useful compendium for book collectors, librarians, and garden historians. "An Oak Spring Sylva" focuses on a unique selection of forty-six books, manuscripts and drawings devoted to trees and shrubs. With vivid illustrations and rich descriptions, it covers a vast range of works -- from a tiny 1555 book on oaks to early 19th-century advice on large-scale tree-planting. Among these are world-renowned books like Evelyn's Sylva, Duhamel's Traite des Arbres, and Michaux's North American Sylva, as well as rather unknown treasures, such as Marshall's American Grove, which helped introduce the riches of American forests to European gardens in the eighteenth century.
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- Bookseller
- Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko (PL)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005391
- Title
- An Oak Spring Sylva: A Selection of the Rare Books on Trees in the Oak Spring Garden Library
- Author
- Raphael, Sandra
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0300046529
- ISBN 13
- 9780300046526
- Publisher
- Oak Spring Garden Library
- Place of Publication
- Upperville
- Date Published
- 1989
- Bookseller catalogs
- Bibliography; Natural history; Library catalogues;
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About the Seller
Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko
Biblio member since 2019
Kraków
About Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko
Specializing in mathematical sciences, Church Slavonic and Slavic books, Eastern European history, travels and topography, bibliography, history and art of the book, history of libraries and collections
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