Lot 12 , Gardens - a small selection of older books on those at home and abroad; includes Ducanes The Flowers and

Gardens - a small selection of older books on those at home and abroad; includes Ducane's The Flowers and Gardens of Japan, A & C. Black, 1908; Edith Wharton's Italian Villas and Their Gardens, NY 1904; and Robinson's The Parks, Promenades and Gardens of Paris, 1869; together with 8 related others
Estimate £100-160

Ducane - colour plates, pictorial cloth, spine faded and slight wear
Wharton - photo illus., colour plates by Maxfield Parish, colour pictorial cloth, light wear and marks, title and other spotting, front inner hinge weak
Robinson - engr. illus., new cloth rebound; also including Villiers-Stuart's Spanish Gardens, photo illus., d/w 1929; Amherst's A History of Gardening in England 1895, spine with light wear, but reasonably good copy, Stuart's Gardens of the Great Mughals, A & C Black 1913, cd plates, good copy.


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Sold for £130