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ADAMS, WILLIAM HOWARD AND EVERETT SCOTT (PHOTOGRAPHER) Nature Perfected : Gardens Through History
New York: Abbeville Press, 1991. Hardcover. ISBN: 0896599191. Green cloth-covered hardback with gold lettering, in an unclipped dust jacket. Tight, square and unmarked book is almost like new. Dust jacket has mild creasing at top edge (no chips or tears). Beginning with the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Greece, and Rome, this book skillfully uncovers the evidence of gardening through the art, history, and literature of those early sites of culture, as well as later findings of archaeology. It then takes us farther afield into the later civilizations of Islam and Mughal India, reveals the important contributions of Italy and France, China and Japan, England, and the New World. Color plates throughout. Oversize. 356 pp. ; 10.0 in. x 10.0 in.. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .
Offered for US$ 49.00 by: Marshwiggle Books - Book number: 3466
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