Plans, Elevations, Sections and Perspective Views of the Gardens and Buildings at Kew in Surry, the seat of Her Royal Highness the Princess Dowager of Wales

by Sir William Chambers

$22,500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

First edition

Contemporary German green morocco, elaborately gilt, wide outer border richly gilt, spine gilt, red morocco lettering piece, within green cloth slipcase. Spectacular volume of the highest interest for historians of eighteenth-century landscape architecture and architecture, containing the two most important works by Sir William Chambers, both in First Edition. Here in a fine contemporary morocco binding. The first work a sensational record of the Kew Gardens in

• Binding: Leather

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