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	ACKERMAN, DIANE/FLIEGER, JERRY ALINE Sandi Fellman - Open Secret Zurich, Switzerland, Stemmle. 1999. (ISBN: 3908163013) Cloth-, 33 x 26 cms. 110 pages - in English - 62 duotone plates - multi-shaded, delicate portraits of flowers in bloom by American photographer Sandi Fellman (b.1952) - Open Secret, essay by Diane Ackerman - plates - Of Secret Passages, afterword by Jerry Aline Flieger - biography. New-/New-. CHF 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.25 US$ 49.55 \| £UK 30 \| JP¥ 4373] Book number: 007224 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	ALFREY, NICHOLAS ET AL Art of the Garden London, England, Tate. 2004. (ISBN: 1854375024) Soft Cover, 4to - over 9Â¾" - 12" tall. 256 pages - in English - over 300 mostly color illustrations - published to coincide with the 2004 exhibitions at the Tate Museum in London, England and the Ulster Museum in Belfast, Northern Ireland and the 2005 showing in Manchester, England of 300 years of watercolors, oil paintings and photographs by over a 100 artists, incl. Constable and Turner, on the theme of that most English of pastimes: gardening - essays by five specialists - catalogue and essay - ten artists' gardens - bibliography - list of works - list of lenders - index. New -. CHF 86.00 [Appr.: EURO 57 US$ 85.23 \| £UK 51.25 \| JP¥ 7522] Book number: 003233 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	ALPHAND, JEAN-CHARLES ADOLPHE Promenades De Paris (les) ( 1867-1873 ) Paris, France, Connaissance et Memoires. 2003, /1000. (ISBN: 2914473044) Reliure Pleine Toile, 32.5 x 48 Cm. 640 pages - 507 gravures n/b et 22 planches en quadrichromie - reprint prestigieux d'un ouvrage paru en 1874 illustrant les bois, parcs, jardins et squares du Paris du IIIeme Empire avec liste, description et representation des plantes exotiques et decoratives, des candelabres, mobiliers et clotures des divers lieux traitÃ©s - poids: 9 kg. 640 pages - in French - 507 b/w engravings and 22 four-color plates - a luxurious reprint of a work which first appeared in 1874 and which describes squares and parks in mid and late 19th Century Paris - includes detailed, illustrated descriptions of exotic & decorative plants, candelabras, furnishings and enclosures. This book weighs 9 kilograms. Neuf-. CHF 640.00 [Appr.: EURO 423.25 US$ 634.24 \| £UK 381.25 \| JP¥ 55977] Book number: 009402 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	BERGE, CHRISTINE Archives Naturelles Paris, France, Marval. 2002. (ISBN: 2862343552) Wrappers-, 28 x 25 Cms. 232 pages - in French - around 200 duotone and color illustrations - the Museum of Natural History in Lyons, France, founded in 1772, gave French photographer Jacqueline Salmon (b.1943) carte blanche to roam through and photograph areas usually hidden - texts by ethnologist Christine BergÃ© and curators Gilles Pacaud, JoÃ«l Clary and Michel Philippe. New-. CHF 60.00 [Appr.: EURO 39.75 US$ 59.46 \| £UK 35.75 \| JP¥ 5248] Book number: 007580 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	BOUTET, GERARD Forestier (Les) - Vieux Metiers Des Taillis et Des Futaies Paris, France, Jean-Cyrille Godefroy. hardcover-, 26.5 x 20.5 Cms. undated, probably 1997 - 188 pages - in French - nearly 250 mostly duotone illustrations - a description of traditional forestry activities and related tools used to cut, trim and more. New-/New-. CHF 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.25 US$ 49.55 \| £UK 30 \| JP¥ 4373] Book number: 007819 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	CLEMENT, GILLES Ecole Buissonniere (Une) Paris, France, Hazan. 1997. (ISBN: 2850255815) hardcover-, 16 x 22 cms. Oblong. 118 pages - in French - around 100 mostly color illustrations - published to coincide with the 1997 showing at the Espace Electra in Paris of descriptions of gardens and gardening by noted French gardener Gilles ClÃ©ment (b.1943). New-. CHF 120.00 [Appr.: EURO 79.5 US$ 118.92 \| £UK 71.5 \| JP¥ 10496] Book number: 008393 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	DERRY, RAMSEY Robert Bateman (The World of) Toronto, Canada, Madison Press. 1985, First Edition-. (ISBN: 067080679X) cloth in a cloth slipcase-, 35 x 37 cms. oblong-. 182 pages - in English - 104 mostly color illustrations, incl. many plates - a handsome collection of illustrations by Canadian wildlife painter Robert Bateman (b.1930) - Robert Bateman and his World, a profile by Ramsey Derry - plates and commentaries - list of illustrations, showings, books, publications, films and chronology. New-. CHF 200.00 [Appr.: EURO 132.25 US$ 198.2 \| £UK 119.25 \| JP¥ 17493] Book number: 008670 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	DEZALLIER D'ARGENVILLE, ANTOINE-JOSEPH Theorie et La Pratique Du Jardinage (La) Paris, Connaissance et MÃ©moires. 2002, LimitÃ©e Ã 1000 Exemplaires. (ISBN: 2914473079) Clothbound in a Slipcase, 4to - over 9Â¾" - 12" Tall Thick. reprint d'un ouvrage publiÃ© en 1747 - 512 pages - 49 plans hors textes prÃ©sentÃ©s sous Ã©tui - le tout sous coffret - PrÃ©face historique de Dominique Garrigues - ConsacrÃ© presque exclusivement aux jardins d'agrÃ©ment et Ã la faÃ§on de les agencer, cet ouvrage est avant tout un manuel pratique Ã l'usage des diffÃ©rents publics auxquels il s'adresse : "particuliers riches", "riches curieux", " jardiniers", "gens de la campagne" - un chef-d'oeuvre de la littÃ©rature horticole franÃ§aise.. New -/New -. CHF 250.00 [Appr.: EURO 165.5 US$ 247.75 \| £UK 149 \| JP¥ 21866] Book number: 001440 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	EID, ALAIN / VIARD, MICHEL MinÃ©raux Du Monde (Les) Paris, France, Hatier. 1999. (ISBN: 2743800097) Hard Cover, 4to - over 9Â¾" - 12" tall. 192 pages - in French - over 200 color illustrations, incl. many plates - a noted nature writer and a gifted nature photographer team up to explain and display the world of minerals - sapphire blue, emerald green, yellow gold, ruby red, lights, shadows and mysterious minerals - glossary, mineralogical classification of cited minerals and index. New -/New -. CHF 48.00 [Appr.: EURO 31.75 US$ 47.57 \| £UK 28.75 \| JP¥ 4198] Book number: 002160 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	GOLDSWORTHY, ANDY Andy Goldsworthy Arcueil, France, Anthese. 1990. (ISBN: 290442038X) Gilt Embossed Cloth-, 31.5 x 27.5 cms. around 100 pages (unpaginated) - in French - over 90 color plates - published to coincide with a travelling retrospective showing in Britain, Europe, America and Japan of works, using natural materials, by English environmental artist Andy Goldsworthy (b.1956), mainly in Sussex, England and Japan - intro. esay by the artist and plates. New-/New-. CHF 95.00 [Appr.: EURO 63 US$ 94.15 \| £UK 56.75 \| JP¥ 8309] Book number: 008722 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	GRISWOLD, MAC/WELLER, ELEANOR Golden Age of American Gardens (The) - Proud Owners, Private Estates 1890-1940 New York, Harry Abrams. 1992. (ISBN: 0810933586) Gilt Embossed Green Cloth-, 26 x 25 cms. 408 pages - in English - 313 illustrations, incl. 134 in color - a survey of some 500 grand gardens belonging to rich Americans such as the Du Ponts of Delaware, Huntingtons of California, Minnesota's Pillsburys and the Houston Hoggs - biblio. and index. New-/New-. CHF 100.00 [Appr.: EURO 66.25 US$ 99.1 \| £UK 59.75 \| JP¥ 8746] Book number: 008370 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	HAINARD, ROBERT/MULHAUSER, GILLES Cent Ans De Nature a Geneve Geneva, Swirzerland, Slatkine. 2006. (ISBN: 2832102417) Hardcover, 25 x 25 Cms. 192 pages - in French - around 200 mostly color illustrations - a centennial tribute to artist Robert Hainard (1906-1999) and his drawings and paintings of the wildlife in the areas surrounding his hometown of Geneva, Switzerland. New-. CHF 60.00 [Appr.: EURO 39.75 US$ 59.46 \| £UK 35.75 \| JP¥ 5248] Book number: 005386 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	HAINARD, ROBERT Quand Le Rhone Coulait Libre... Geneva, Switzerland, Tribune Editions. 1979. Gilt Embossed Cloth, 30 x 23 Cms. inscription in ink on back endpaper: "Claude-Bernard 1983) - 128 pages - in French - 49 color and b/w illustrations - watercolors and etchings depicting the four seasons along the unspoilt riverbanks of the RhÃ´ne in the area around Geneva, Switzerland, by a noted local illustrator of flora and fauna, Robert Hainard (1906-1999) - list of illustrations. New-/New-. CHF 120.00 [Appr.: EURO 79.5 US$ 118.92 \| £UK 71.5 \| JP¥ 10496] Book number: 005279 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	HEDIGER /PERROT ET AL Chasse En Suisse (la) Geneva, Swirzerland, Kister RenÃ©. 1951. Gilt Embossed Cloth, 29 x 22 Cms. 2 vols. 580 pages - in French - 8 color plates, 80 duotone illustrations and dozens of b/w illustrations - dozens of specialists describe hunting in Switzerland - vol.1: wild animals, the zoology of game, art & techniques and nature protection - vol.2: shooting, hunting dogs, specialized knowledge, game protection, hunting in art, history, laws, and, hunting organizations. Fine-. CHF 90.00 [Appr.: EURO 59.5 US$ 89.19 \| £UK 53.75 \| JP¥ 7872] Book number: 005374 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	LE ROUGE, GEOGES LOUIS Jardins Anglo-Chinois Ou Description Des Nouveaux Jardins a La Mode Paris, France, Connaissance et Memoires. 2004, /500. (ISBN: 2914473249) , 43 x 31 Cm. 1000 pages - en FranÃ§ais - 484 planches pleine page n/b dont 39 en trÃ¨s grand format (87 x 46 cm) pliÃ©es, imprimÃ©es sur papier verge, prÃ©sentÃ©es en 21 cahiers dans un coffret en bois de thuya marocain - reprint prestigieux d'un ouvrage composÃ© en 1776-1778 par Georges Louis Le Rouge, geographe du Roi Louis XV, auteur prolixe d'atlas, de cartes, de plans de bataille et relevÃ©s de place fortes - Il s'agit en fait d'une vÃ©ritable encyclopedie de l'art des jardins de l'Ã©poque (principalement France, Grande Bretagne, Chine)- cette parution est accompagnÃ©e d'un inventaire exhaustif des jardins de la fin du XVIII rÃ©alisÃ© par la Bibliotheque Nationale de France avec un texte de Bernard Korzus sur Georges Louis Le Rouge et un essai de Elisabetha Cerreghini qui oppose a la symetrie et a la rigidite des jardins Ã la franÃ§aise, la fantaisie et l'inventivite des jardins anglo-chinois - poids : 20 kg. 1,000 pages - in French - 484 b/w plates, incl 39 extra-large (87 x 46 cms.) foldouts printed on laid paper - this work comes in the form of 21 pullout supplements in a Moroccan thuja wood clamshell box - a luxurious reprint of a work, which first appeared in 1776-1778, by Georges Louis Le Rouge, geographer to King Louis XIV and prolific compiler of maps, battle plans and strongold layouts - a veritable encyclopaedia of period gardens, mainly French, English and Chinese, featuring an exhaustive inventory of late 18th Century gardens compiled by the National Library of France - includes a description of Le Rouge by Bernard Korzus and an essay in which Elizabetha Cerraghini compares rigid, symetrical French gardens with more inventive, fantastic even, English and Chinese ones. This book weighs 20 kilograms. Neuf-. CHF 2400.00 [Appr.: EURO 1586.5 US$ 2378.4 \| £UK 1429.5 \| JP¥ 209912] Book number: 009404 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	LEITH-ROSS, PRUDENCE Florilegium of Alexander Marshal at Windsor Castle (The) London, England, Royal Collection Enterprises. 2000. (ISBN: 1902163052) Gilt-Embossed Cloth, 31 x 26 Cms. 384 pages - in English - 165 color plates - this, the first of four volumes intended to cover the natural history drawings and watercolors in the Royal Collection, features exquisite watercolors by Alexander Marshall (1620-1682) who depicted over 600 plants, native and exotic, as well as insects, birds and mammals - essays by Prudence Leith-Ross and Henrietta McBurney - catalogue - biblio. concordance, index of modern Latin names of plants and animals and general index. New -/New -. CHF 285.00 [Appr.: EURO 188.5 US$ 282.44 \| £UK 169.75 \| JP¥ 24927] Book number: 003891 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	LUCAS, MIKE Antarctica New York, Abbeville. 1996. (ISBN: 0896601080) Cloth-, 31 x 27 cms. 160 pages - in English - nearly 200 color illustrations and a 2-page map - a description of the Antarctic continent and its wildlife - index. New-/New-. CHF 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 26.5 US$ 39.64 \| £UK 24 \| JP¥ 3499] Book number: 008181 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	MANIA, ASTRID Bob Verschueren Brussels, Belgium, Atelier 340. 1997. (ISBN: 3928692178) Wrappers, 27.5 x 30 Cms. Oblong. 300 pages - in French, Flemish, English and German - around 100 color illustrations - a survey of 20 years of artistic creation using vegetable and natural objects by Belgian artist Bob Verschueren (b.1945) - wind paintings, light paintings and vegetable installations - B.S.'s scattered notes - reportage - bio. showings, biblio. and collophon. New -. CHF 95.00 [Appr.: EURO 63 US$ 94.15 \| £UK 56.75 \| JP¥ 8309] Book number: 004073 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	MOSSER, MONIQUE/TEYSSOT, GEORGES History of Garden Design (The) - the Western Tradition from the Renaissance to the Present Day London, England, Thames & Hudson. 1991. (ISBN: 0500015112) Gilt Embossed Green Cloth, 29 x 26 cms. 544 pages - in English - 652 illustrations, incl. 129 color plates and 51 specially commissioned plans of parks and gardens - a survey of beautiful gardens, from the 15th Century to the present day - 76 essays by 64 leading experts on humanist gardens, baroque gardens, classical parks, Arcadian gardens, Enlightened gardens, eclectic gardens, town & city parks, contemporary gardens, leisure parks and more - index of people and places. New-/New-. CHF 145.00 [Appr.: EURO 96 US$ 143.7 \| £UK 86.5 \| JP¥ 12682] Book number: 008369 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	NAKA, JOHN YOSHIO Bonsais Chefs D'oeuvre Paris, France, Atlas. 1989. (ISBN: 2731207841) Gilt Embossed Green Cloth-, 37 x 27 cms. 188 pages - in French - 180 color and several dozen duotone and b/w illustrations - a presentation of Japan's finest Bonzais, from a 15-year-old cherry tree to a 1,000-year-old pine - essays by various specialists - definition, history, styles, Japanese tradition and more - caption and index of cited Bonzais. New-/New-. CHF 250.00 [Appr.: EURO 165.5 US$ 247.75 \| £UK 149 \| JP¥ 21866] Book number: 008371 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	ORSENNA, ERIK/MARTIN, ANDRE Fragments D'une Histoire Naturelle Paris, France, Delpire. 2006. (ISBN: 2851072277) cloth-, 29.5 x 30.5 Oblong. 142 pages - in French - 108 color plates - photographic still lifes of nature and wildlife by French photographer AndrÃ© Martin (1928-1999) - essays by Erik Orsenna and Robert Delpire - captions, bio. biblio. publications, archives, films and showings. new-/new-. CHF 85.00 [Appr.: EURO 56.25 US$ 84.24 \| £UK 50.75 \| JP¥ 7434] Book number: 005889 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	PHILIPPE, MICHEL ET AL Fossiles De Cerin Clermont-Ferrand, France, Un, Deux..Quatre Editions. 2004. (ISBN: 2913323944) Cloth-, 31.5 x 25 Cms. 128 pages - in French - over 100 mostly color illustrations - a spotlight on some of the 1,700 fossils, discovered in the 19th Century and housed in the MusÃ©e des Confluences in Lyons, France, which are some 150 million years old and date from the time when the Earth was tropical and seawater covered part of present-day Europe - the lithographic stone quarry in Cerin where the fossils were discovered, descriptions of the different kinds of fossils, traces of biological activity, the 150-million-year-old Cerin lagoon, the museum and its collection - glossary and bibliography. New-/New-. CHF 65.00 [Appr.: EURO 43 US$ 64.42 \| £UK 38.75 \| JP¥ 5685] Book number: 006265 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	REPTON, HUMPHREY Sketches and Hints on Landscape Gardening Paris, France, Connaissance et MÃ©moires. 2006. (ISBN: 2914473419) Gilt Embossed Red Cloth, 27.5 x 38.5 cms. Oblong. no.98 of a numbered deluxe edition limited to 700 copies - 100 pages - in English - 16 color plates, incl. 4 double-page panoramas, featuring caches which mask part of the landscape and can be removed to present an alternate view - a handsome reproduction of the classic work published in 1840 of fixed principles in the art of laying out ground by the last great 18th Century English landscaper, Humphrey Repton (1752-1818) - the work is a compendium of some 50 Red Books that featured designs and observations that he made for the estates of different noblemen and gentlemen - dedication to the king, advertisement explaining the nature of the work and catalogue of Red Books mentioned - concerning landscaping, characters & situations, buildings, situations of houses, water, park scenery, comparison of modern or landscape gardening with ancient or geometric styles, approaches and more - correspondence on the new theory of picture gardening. New-. CHF 950.00 [Appr.: EURO 628 US$ 941.45 \| £UK 566 \| JP¥ 83090] Book number: 006192 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	RICE, TONY DR. Voyages of Discovery - Three Centuries of Natural History Exploration London, England, Scriptum. 2000. (ISBN: 1902686020) Cloth-, 33 x 28 cms. 336 pages - in English - over 320 mostly color illustrations - illustrations and artworks, from the Library of the Natural History Museum in London, which trace the accumulation over 300 years of some 68 million natural history specimens - Hans Sloane's cocoa-collecting 1687 voyage to Jamaica, Maria Sybilla Merian's butterfly-recording 1699 trip to Surinam, Darwin's ill-fated Galapagos expedition and more - epilogue, bios. biblio. and index. New-/New-. CHF 140.00 [Appr.: EURO 92.75 US$ 138.74 \| £UK 83.5 \| JP¥ 12245] Book number: 007598 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	RING, JIM How the English Made the Alps London, England, John Murray. 2000. (ISBN: 0719556899) Cloth-, 25 x 16.5 cms. 288 pages - in English - 24 duotone illustrations - maps of the Alps on endpapers - the story of how the English communicated the delights of the Alps to millions, from the mid-19th Century when Romantics such as Shelley and Byron described the delights of mountain-climbing, to the competition between travel agents Thomas Cook and Henry Lunn and to the inter-war years when the English popularized downhill skiing - bibilio. and index. Fine-/good-. CHF 170.00 [Appr.: EURO 112.5 US$ 168.47 \| £UK 101.25 \| JP¥ 14869] Book number: 005665 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.

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	ACKERMAN, DIANE/FLIEGER, JERRY ALINE Sandi Fellman - Open Secret Zurich, Switzerland, Stemmle. 1999. (ISBN: 3908163013) Cloth-, 33 x 26 cms. 110 pages - in English - 62 duotone plates - multi-shaded, delicate portraits of flowers in bloom by American photographer Sandi Fellman (b.1952) - Open Secret, essay by Diane Ackerman - plates - Of Secret Passages, afterword by Jerry Aline Flieger - biography. New-/New-. CHF 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.25 US$ 49.55 \| £UK 30 \| JP¥ 4373] Book number: 007224 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	ALFREY, NICHOLAS ET AL Art of the Garden London, England, Tate. 2004. (ISBN: 1854375024) Soft Cover, 4to - over 9Â¾" - 12" tall. 256 pages - in English - over 300 mostly color illustrations - published to coincide with the 2004 exhibitions at the Tate Museum in London, England and the Ulster Museum in Belfast, Northern Ireland and the 2005 showing in Manchester, England of 300 years of watercolors, oil paintings and photographs by over a 100 artists, incl. Constable and Turner, on the theme of that most English of pastimes: gardening - essays by five specialists - catalogue and essay - ten artists' gardens - bibliography - list of works - list of lenders - index. New -. CHF 86.00 [Appr.: EURO 57 US$ 85.23 \| £UK 51.25 \| JP¥ 7522] Book number: 003233 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	ALPHAND, JEAN-CHARLES ADOLPHE Promenades De Paris (les) ( 1867-1873 ) Paris, France, Connaissance et Memoires. 2003, /1000. (ISBN: 2914473044) Reliure Pleine Toile, 32.5 x 48 Cm. 640 pages - 507 gravures n/b et 22 planches en quadrichromie - reprint prestigieux d'un ouvrage paru en 1874 illustrant les bois, parcs, jardins et squares du Paris du IIIeme Empire avec liste, description et representation des plantes exotiques et decoratives, des candelabres, mobiliers et clotures des divers lieux traitÃ©s - poids: 9 kg. 640 pages - in French - 507 b/w engravings and 22 four-color plates - a luxurious reprint of a work which first appeared in 1874 and which describes squares and parks in mid and late 19th Century Paris - includes detailed, illustrated descriptions of exotic & decorative plants, candelabras, furnishings and enclosures. This book weighs 9 kilograms. Neuf-. CHF 640.00 [Appr.: EURO 423.25 US$ 634.24 \| £UK 381.25 \| JP¥ 55977] Book number: 009402 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	BERGE, CHRISTINE Archives Naturelles Paris, France, Marval. 2002. (ISBN: 2862343552) Wrappers-, 28 x 25 Cms. 232 pages - in French - around 200 duotone and color illustrations - the Museum of Natural History in Lyons, France, founded in 1772, gave French photographer Jacqueline Salmon (b.1943) carte blanche to roam through and photograph areas usually hidden - texts by ethnologist Christine BergÃ© and curators Gilles Pacaud, JoÃ«l Clary and Michel Philippe. New-. CHF 60.00 [Appr.: EURO 39.75 US$ 59.46 \| £UK 35.75 \| JP¥ 5248] Book number: 007580 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	BOUTET, GERARD Forestier (Les) - Vieux Metiers Des Taillis et Des Futaies Paris, France, Jean-Cyrille Godefroy. hardcover-, 26.5 x 20.5 Cms. undated, probably 1997 - 188 pages - in French - nearly 250 mostly duotone illustrations - a description of traditional forestry activities and related tools used to cut, trim and more. New-/New-. CHF 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.25 US$ 49.55 \| £UK 30 \| JP¥ 4373] Book number: 007819 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	CLEMENT, GILLES Ecole Buissonniere (Une) Paris, France, Hazan. 1997. (ISBN: 2850255815) hardcover-, 16 x 22 cms. Oblong. 118 pages - in French - around 100 mostly color illustrations - published to coincide with the 1997 showing at the Espace Electra in Paris of descriptions of gardens and gardening by noted French gardener Gilles ClÃ©ment (b.1943). New-. CHF 120.00 [Appr.: EURO 79.5 US$ 118.92 \| £UK 71.5 \| JP¥ 10496] Book number: 008393 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	DERRY, RAMSEY Robert Bateman (The World of) Toronto, Canada, Madison Press. 1985, First Edition-. (ISBN: 067080679X) cloth in a cloth slipcase-, 35 x 37 cms. oblong-. 182 pages - in English - 104 mostly color illustrations, incl. many plates - a handsome collection of illustrations by Canadian wildlife painter Robert Bateman (b.1930) - Robert Bateman and his World, a profile by Ramsey Derry - plates and commentaries - list of illustrations, showings, books, publications, films and chronology. New-. CHF 200.00 [Appr.: EURO 132.25 US$ 198.2 \| £UK 119.25 \| JP¥ 17493] Book number: 008670 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	DEZALLIER D'ARGENVILLE, ANTOINE-JOSEPH Theorie et La Pratique Du Jardinage (La) Paris, Connaissance et MÃ©moires. 2002, LimitÃ©e Ã 1000 Exemplaires. (ISBN: 2914473079) Clothbound in a Slipcase, 4to - over 9Â¾" - 12" Tall Thick. reprint d'un ouvrage publiÃ© en 1747 - 512 pages - 49 plans hors textes prÃ©sentÃ©s sous Ã©tui - le tout sous coffret - PrÃ©face historique de Dominique Garrigues - ConsacrÃ© presque exclusivement aux jardins d'agrÃ©ment et Ã la faÃ§on de les agencer, cet ouvrage est avant tout un manuel pratique Ã l'usage des diffÃ©rents publics auxquels il s'adresse : "particuliers riches", "riches curieux", " jardiniers", "gens de la campagne" - un chef-d'oeuvre de la littÃ©rature horticole franÃ§aise.. New -/New -. CHF 250.00 [Appr.: EURO 165.5 US$ 247.75 \| £UK 149 \| JP¥ 21866] Book number: 001440 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	EID, ALAIN / VIARD, MICHEL MinÃ©raux Du Monde (Les) Paris, France, Hatier. 1999. (ISBN: 2743800097) Hard Cover, 4to - over 9Â¾" - 12" tall. 192 pages - in French - over 200 color illustrations, incl. many plates - a noted nature writer and a gifted nature photographer team up to explain and display the world of minerals - sapphire blue, emerald green, yellow gold, ruby red, lights, shadows and mysterious minerals - glossary, mineralogical classification of cited minerals and index. New -/New -. CHF 48.00 [Appr.: EURO 31.75 US$ 47.57 \| £UK 28.75 \| JP¥ 4198] Book number: 002160 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	GOLDSWORTHY, ANDY Andy Goldsworthy Arcueil, France, Anthese. 1990. (ISBN: 290442038X) Gilt Embossed Cloth-, 31.5 x 27.5 cms. around 100 pages (unpaginated) - in French - over 90 color plates - published to coincide with a travelling retrospective showing in Britain, Europe, America and Japan of works, using natural materials, by English environmental artist Andy Goldsworthy (b.1956), mainly in Sussex, England and Japan - intro. esay by the artist and plates. New-/New-. CHF 95.00 [Appr.: EURO 63 US$ 94.15 \| £UK 56.75 \| JP¥ 8309] Book number: 008722 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	GRISWOLD, MAC/WELLER, ELEANOR Golden Age of American Gardens (The) - Proud Owners, Private Estates 1890-1940 New York, Harry Abrams. 1992. (ISBN: 0810933586) Gilt Embossed Green Cloth-, 26 x 25 cms. 408 pages - in English - 313 illustrations, incl. 134 in color - a survey of some 500 grand gardens belonging to rich Americans such as the Du Ponts of Delaware, Huntingtons of California, Minnesota's Pillsburys and the Houston Hoggs - biblio. and index. New-/New-. CHF 100.00 [Appr.: EURO 66.25 US$ 99.1 \| £UK 59.75 \| JP¥ 8746] Book number: 008370 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	HAINARD, ROBERT/MULHAUSER, GILLES Cent Ans De Nature a Geneve Geneva, Swirzerland, Slatkine. 2006. (ISBN: 2832102417) Hardcover, 25 x 25 Cms. 192 pages - in French - around 200 mostly color illustrations - a centennial tribute to artist Robert Hainard (1906-1999) and his drawings and paintings of the wildlife in the areas surrounding his hometown of Geneva, Switzerland. New-. CHF 60.00 [Appr.: EURO 39.75 US$ 59.46 \| £UK 35.75 \| JP¥ 5248] Book number: 005386 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	HAINARD, ROBERT Quand Le Rhone Coulait Libre... Geneva, Switzerland, Tribune Editions. 1979. Gilt Embossed Cloth, 30 x 23 Cms. inscription in ink on back endpaper: "Claude-Bernard 1983) - 128 pages - in French - 49 color and b/w illustrations - watercolors and etchings depicting the four seasons along the unspoilt riverbanks of the RhÃ´ne in the area around Geneva, Switzerland, by a noted local illustrator of flora and fauna, Robert Hainard (1906-1999) - list of illustrations. New-/New-. CHF 120.00 [Appr.: EURO 79.5 US$ 118.92 \| £UK 71.5 \| JP¥ 10496] Book number: 005279 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	HEDIGER /PERROT ET AL Chasse En Suisse (la) Geneva, Swirzerland, Kister RenÃ©. 1951. Gilt Embossed Cloth, 29 x 22 Cms. 2 vols. 580 pages - in French - 8 color plates, 80 duotone illustrations and dozens of b/w illustrations - dozens of specialists describe hunting in Switzerland - vol.1: wild animals, the zoology of game, art & techniques and nature protection - vol.2: shooting, hunting dogs, specialized knowledge, game protection, hunting in art, history, laws, and, hunting organizations. Fine-. CHF 90.00 [Appr.: EURO 59.5 US$ 89.19 \| £UK 53.75 \| JP¥ 7872] Book number: 005374 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	LE ROUGE, GEOGES LOUIS Jardins Anglo-Chinois Ou Description Des Nouveaux Jardins a La Mode Paris, France, Connaissance et Memoires. 2004, /500. (ISBN: 2914473249) , 43 x 31 Cm. 1000 pages - en FranÃ§ais - 484 planches pleine page n/b dont 39 en trÃ¨s grand format (87 x 46 cm) pliÃ©es, imprimÃ©es sur papier verge, prÃ©sentÃ©es en 21 cahiers dans un coffret en bois de thuya marocain - reprint prestigieux d'un ouvrage composÃ© en 1776-1778 par Georges Louis Le Rouge, geographe du Roi Louis XV, auteur prolixe d'atlas, de cartes, de plans de bataille et relevÃ©s de place fortes - Il s'agit en fait d'une vÃ©ritable encyclopedie de l'art des jardins de l'Ã©poque (principalement France, Grande Bretagne, Chine)- cette parution est accompagnÃ©e d'un inventaire exhaustif des jardins de la fin du XVIII rÃ©alisÃ© par la Bibliotheque Nationale de France avec un texte de Bernard Korzus sur Georges Louis Le Rouge et un essai de Elisabetha Cerreghini qui oppose a la symetrie et a la rigidite des jardins Ã la franÃ§aise, la fantaisie et l'inventivite des jardins anglo-chinois - poids : 20 kg. 1,000 pages - in French - 484 b/w plates, incl 39 extra-large (87 x 46 cms.) foldouts printed on laid paper - this work comes in the form of 21 pullout supplements in a Moroccan thuja wood clamshell box - a luxurious reprint of a work, which first appeared in 1776-1778, by Georges Louis Le Rouge, geographer to King Louis XIV and prolific compiler of maps, battle plans and strongold layouts - a veritable encyclopaedia of period gardens, mainly French, English and Chinese, featuring an exhaustive inventory of late 18th Century gardens compiled by the National Library of France - includes a description of Le Rouge by Bernard Korzus and an essay in which Elizabetha Cerraghini compares rigid, symetrical French gardens with more inventive, fantastic even, English and Chinese ones. This book weighs 20 kilograms. Neuf-. CHF 2400.00 [Appr.: EURO 1586.5 US$ 2378.4 \| £UK 1429.5 \| JP¥ 209912] Book number: 009404 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	LEITH-ROSS, PRUDENCE Florilegium of Alexander Marshal at Windsor Castle (The) London, England, Royal Collection Enterprises. 2000. (ISBN: 1902163052) Gilt-Embossed Cloth, 31 x 26 Cms. 384 pages - in English - 165 color plates - this, the first of four volumes intended to cover the natural history drawings and watercolors in the Royal Collection, features exquisite watercolors by Alexander Marshall (1620-1682) who depicted over 600 plants, native and exotic, as well as insects, birds and mammals - essays by Prudence Leith-Ross and Henrietta McBurney - catalogue - biblio. concordance, index of modern Latin names of plants and animals and general index. New -/New -. CHF 285.00 [Appr.: EURO 188.5 US$ 282.44 \| £UK 169.75 \| JP¥ 24927] Book number: 003891 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	LUCAS, MIKE Antarctica New York, Abbeville. 1996. (ISBN: 0896601080) Cloth-, 31 x 27 cms. 160 pages - in English - nearly 200 color illustrations and a 2-page map - a description of the Antarctic continent and its wildlife - index. New-/New-. CHF 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 26.5 US$ 39.64 \| £UK 24 \| JP¥ 3499] Book number: 008181 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	MANIA, ASTRID Bob Verschueren Brussels, Belgium, Atelier 340. 1997. (ISBN: 3928692178) Wrappers, 27.5 x 30 Cms. Oblong. 300 pages - in French, Flemish, English and German - around 100 color illustrations - a survey of 20 years of artistic creation using vegetable and natural objects by Belgian artist Bob Verschueren (b.1945) - wind paintings, light paintings and vegetable installations - B.S.'s scattered notes - reportage - bio. showings, biblio. and collophon. New -. CHF 95.00 [Appr.: EURO 63 US$ 94.15 \| £UK 56.75 \| JP¥ 8309] Book number: 004073 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	MOSSER, MONIQUE/TEYSSOT, GEORGES History of Garden Design (The) - the Western Tradition from the Renaissance to the Present Day London, England, Thames & Hudson. 1991. (ISBN: 0500015112) Gilt Embossed Green Cloth, 29 x 26 cms. 544 pages - in English - 652 illustrations, incl. 129 color plates and 51 specially commissioned plans of parks and gardens - a survey of beautiful gardens, from the 15th Century to the present day - 76 essays by 64 leading experts on humanist gardens, baroque gardens, classical parks, Arcadian gardens, Enlightened gardens, eclectic gardens, town & city parks, contemporary gardens, leisure parks and more - index of people and places. New-/New-. CHF 145.00 [Appr.: EURO 96 US$ 143.7 \| £UK 86.5 \| JP¥ 12682] Book number: 008369 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	NAKA, JOHN YOSHIO Bonsais Chefs D'oeuvre Paris, France, Atlas. 1989. (ISBN: 2731207841) Gilt Embossed Green Cloth-, 37 x 27 cms. 188 pages - in French - 180 color and several dozen duotone and b/w illustrations - a presentation of Japan's finest Bonzais, from a 15-year-old cherry tree to a 1,000-year-old pine - essays by various specialists - definition, history, styles, Japanese tradition and more - caption and index of cited Bonzais. New-/New-. CHF 250.00 [Appr.: EURO 165.5 US$ 247.75 \| £UK 149 \| JP¥ 21866] Book number: 008371 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	ORSENNA, ERIK/MARTIN, ANDRE Fragments D'une Histoire Naturelle Paris, France, Delpire. 2006. (ISBN: 2851072277) cloth-, 29.5 x 30.5 Oblong. 142 pages - in French - 108 color plates - photographic still lifes of nature and wildlife by French photographer AndrÃ© Martin (1928-1999) - essays by Erik Orsenna and Robert Delpire - captions, bio. biblio. publications, archives, films and showings. new-/new-. CHF 85.00 [Appr.: EURO 56.25 US$ 84.24 \| £UK 50.75 \| JP¥ 7434] Book number: 005889 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	PHILIPPE, MICHEL ET AL Fossiles De Cerin Clermont-Ferrand, France, Un, Deux..Quatre Editions. 2004. (ISBN: 2913323944) Cloth-, 31.5 x 25 Cms. 128 pages - in French - over 100 mostly color illustrations - a spotlight on some of the 1,700 fossils, discovered in the 19th Century and housed in the MusÃ©e des Confluences in Lyons, France, which are some 150 million years old and date from the time when the Earth was tropical and seawater covered part of present-day Europe - the lithographic stone quarry in Cerin where the fossils were discovered, descriptions of the different kinds of fossils, traces of biological activity, the 150-million-year-old Cerin lagoon, the museum and its collection - glossary and bibliography. New-/New-. CHF 65.00 [Appr.: EURO 43 US$ 64.42 \| £UK 38.75 \| JP¥ 5685] Book number: 006265 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	REPTON, HUMPHREY Sketches and Hints on Landscape Gardening Paris, France, Connaissance et MÃ©moires. 2006. (ISBN: 2914473419) Gilt Embossed Red Cloth, 27.5 x 38.5 cms. Oblong. no.98 of a numbered deluxe edition limited to 700 copies - 100 pages - in English - 16 color plates, incl. 4 double-page panoramas, featuring caches which mask part of the landscape and can be removed to present an alternate view - a handsome reproduction of the classic work published in 1840 of fixed principles in the art of laying out ground by the last great 18th Century English landscaper, Humphrey Repton (1752-1818) - the work is a compendium of some 50 Red Books that featured designs and observations that he made for the estates of different noblemen and gentlemen - dedication to the king, advertisement explaining the nature of the work and catalogue of Red Books mentioned - concerning landscaping, characters & situations, buildings, situations of houses, water, park scenery, comparison of modern or landscape gardening with ancient or geometric styles, approaches and more - correspondence on the new theory of picture gardening. New-. CHF 950.00 [Appr.: EURO 628 US$ 941.45 \| £UK 566 \| JP¥ 83090] Book number: 006192 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	RICE, TONY DR. Voyages of Discovery - Three Centuries of Natural History Exploration London, England, Scriptum. 2000. (ISBN: 1902686020) Cloth-, 33 x 28 cms. 336 pages - in English - over 320 mostly color illustrations - illustrations and artworks, from the Library of the Natural History Museum in London, which trace the accumulation over 300 years of some 68 million natural history specimens - Hans Sloane's cocoa-collecting 1687 voyage to Jamaica, Maria Sybilla Merian's butterfly-recording 1699 trip to Surinam, Darwin's ill-fated Galapagos expedition and more - epilogue, bios. biblio. and index. New-/New-. CHF 140.00 [Appr.: EURO 92.75 US$ 138.74 \| £UK 83.5 \| JP¥ 12245] Book number: 007598 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	RING, JIM How the English Made the Alps London, England, John Murray. 2000. (ISBN: 0719556899) Cloth-, 25 x 16.5 cms. 288 pages - in English - 24 duotone illustrations - maps of the Alps on endpapers - the story of how the English communicated the delights of the Alps to millions, from the mid-19th Century when Romantics such as Shelley and Byron described the delights of mountain-climbing, to the competition between travel agents Thomas Cook and Henry Lunn and to the inter-war years when the English popularized downhill skiing - bibilio. and index. Fine-/good-. CHF 170.00 [Appr.: EURO 112.5 US$ 168.47 \| £UK 101.25 \| JP¥ 14869] Book number: 005665 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.