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Tarrytown, NY: John D. Rockefeller, 1919. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good. 12.3x9.4x0.6in. engraved Christmas card from John D. Rockefeller, other views, postcards of Kijkuit laid-in; light soiling to covers, foxing to endpapers. This book was privately printed in 1919. The gardens were designed and executed by Welles Bosworth for John D. Rockefeller. Illustrated with 56 half-tone photographic reproductions of photographs by Arnold Genthe. [122pp] 2.34lb 12.3x9.4x0.6in

Baltimore: Norman Munder, 1919. 4to. (12 x 8 1/2). With 56 half-tone photographic illustrations reproducing celebrated Arnold Genthe's photographs and a fold-out plan of John D. Rockefeller's country estate. Text by the estate architect Welles Bosworth. Publisher's quarter cloth and boards, bound with gray cloth ties in the Japanese manner. Exceptionally nice copy of a fragile book. Visual examination of the gardens at Kijkuit, a Beaux-Arts garden on The Rockefeller country estate. This book features the gardens at Kijkuit, a John D. Rockefeller country estate near Tarrytown, NY. Kijkuit -- meaning look-out -- was the name given by the 17th century Dutch settlers to the hill-top on which the Rockefeller country estate was eventually built. The gardens were designed by Welles Bosworth who has written a Foreword and brief text with the later assistance of the architects Delano and Aldrich. The gardens were designed in the fashionable neoclassical style influenced by Italian gardens (see Edith… Read More