Art, Architecture & Photography / Castles, Gardens & Mansions

QUINTINYE, Jean Baptise de la. Instruction pour les jardins fruitiers et potagers, avec un traité des orangers, et des réflexions sur lagriculture. Nouvelle édition revue, corrigée, et augmentée dune instruction pour la culture des fleurs.
Paris, La Compagnie des Libraires Associés, 1756. 2 volumes. Large 4to. With 13 engraved plates (2 folding), 13 woodcut illustrations in the text, woodcut and engraved headpieces, tailpieces and woodcut initials. Contemporary mottled calf, brown morocco spine label with title in gold, red edges. [8], 16, XVII-XLVIII, [12], 592; [8], 588, [28] pp. Full description

[AMSTERDAM]. [RADEMAKER, Abraham?]. 't Huis Kostverlooren.
[Netherlands, ca. 1700]. A view in brown ink with light and dark grey watercolour washes on laid paper (16.5 x 21.5 cm), with a manuscript caption at the head. Mounted in passepartout. Full description

ROBERTSON, William. Desseins d'architecture, représentans des sièges de jardins, des portes de maisons de campagne, des entrées de parcs, des volières, des temples, . . .
London, printed by A. Dulau & Co. and Leonardo Nardini, and sold by Rudolph Ackermann there and J.G. Beygang in Leipzig, 1800. Oblong Imperial 4to (28×38 cm). With 24 numbered aquatint plates, subtly coloured by hand. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine. [4 incl. 2 blank], 24 pp. plus plates. Full description

ROBIDÉ VAN DER AA, Christianus Petrus Eliza . Oud-Nederland in de uit vroegere dagen, overgeblevene burgen en kasteelen geschetst en afgebeeld.
Nijmegen, C.A. Vieweg, 1841-1846. 2 volumes. Large 8vo. With 72 full-page lithographed views of the old Dutch castles and mansions, mostly after designs by J.F. Christ. Contemporary gold- and blind-tooled purplish-blue half calf. Each plate is accompanied by 8 to 20 pages of description and historical notes. Full description

ROGHMAN, Roeland; Jacobus SCHYNVOET. Nederlandsche oudheden, bestaande in zestig vebeeldingen, zo van geheele als vervallene heeren huizen, sloten, burgten en kasteelen, gelegen in Holland, 't Sticht van Utrecht en Gelderland enz. Meerendeels na 't leeven getekent door ...
Amsterdam, Hendrik Bosch, 1721. Oblong folio (21 x 29 cm). With 60 etched and engraved plates and a woodcut vignette on the title-page. Contemporary vellum. [2] pp., [60] engraved ll. Full description

SALLERON, Louis. [MANUSCRIPT]. Catalogue général des plantes cultivées a l'école de botanique du jardin du roi. Selon la classification adoptée par M. Ad. Brongniart, et indiquant en synonymes les noms des plantes de l'ancienne école de desfontaines.
Paris, 1848. 4to. In a dark green custom case with thte title on the spine in gold lettering, interior of red calfskin lined with suede. Dark green morocco. [10], 17, [1], 425, [31] pp. Full description

SCHENK, Pieter. Delineatio domus recreatricis adjacentiumque prospectuum amoenissimorum extra urbem Zutphaniensem ...
[Amsterdam], Pieter Schenk, [ca. 1702].
With:
(2) SCHENK, Pieter. Praetorium dieranum quod a se per omnes partes descriptum ac delineatum Serenissimo Britanniarum Regi Gulielmo III humillime offert Petrus Schenk.
[Amsterdam, Pieter Schenk, ca. 1700].
(3) CALL, Johannes van. Loani, ut et villarum Regis Gulielmi reliquarum, conspectus selectiores.
[Amsterdam, Pieter Schenck, ca. 1700]. 3 works in 1 volume. Oblong 4to (26.5 x 31 cm). With an engraved title page for each work, and 50 contemporary hand-coloured engraved plates. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf, with a black morocco title label lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. [16]; [14]; [23] ll. Full description

SCHENK, Pieter. [Afbeeldinge der voornaemste gezichten van Duinrel].
[Amsterdam, Pieter Schenk, 1702]. Oblong album (ca. 18.5 x 25.5 cm). With an engraved dedication, and 16 numbered engraved numbered views (ca. 170 x 205mm) of the manor house and gardens of Duinrel in Wassenaar, near The Hague. The 16 plates each show an engraved caption in Dutch and Latin beneath the view. The dedication leaf and the 16 views (each ca. 17 x 20.5 cm) are mounted (attached only at the top of each leaf) on blank leaves (ca. 18.5 x 25.5 cm). Later half vellum, marbled paper sides. [17] ll. Full description

SCHENK, Pieter [and Jan van CALL]. Rozendael. Aan den hoog-edel welgeboren en gestengen heere den heere Joan Baron van Arnhem, heere van Rozendael tot Harslo, byzonderen Raad des vorstendoms Gelre en graefschap Zutphen ... word deze afbeelding van Rozendael, opgedragen.
Amsterdam, Pieter Schenk, [1702?]. Oblong royal 4to (25 x 31.5 cm). With an engraved dedication also serving as a title-page, and 16 unnumbered engraved views (15 x 18.5 cm). Modern half parchment, with the title and author lettered in gold on the spine, marbled paper sides. [17] ll. Full description

SCHENK, Pieter. Afbeeldinge der voornaemste gezichten van Duinrel gediestig opgedragen door zyn hoog-edels onderdanigen dienaer.
[Amsterdam], Pieter Schenk, [ca. 1720]. Oblong royal 4to (ca. 23 x 28.5 cm). With an engraved dedication also serving as a title-page, and 16 numbered engraved views (15 x 18.5 cm). Modern half sheepskin parchment. [17] ll. Full description