The Holiday Books on Gardens and Timepieces
A critical survey of English Pleasure Gardens by Rose Standish Nichols with Allen Cox illustrations, plus Triggs Formal Gardens and European and Japanese Gardens edited by Glenn Brown. Also reviewed are Sun Dials and Roses of Yesterday by Alice Morse Earle and Furniture of the Olden Time by Francis Clary Morse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rose Standish Nichols
Allen H. Cox
The
Macmillan Company
England
Scotland
H. Inigo Triggs
Charles Latham
Charles Scribner's Sons
American Institute of Architects
A. D. F. Hamlin
R. Clipston Sturgis
John Galen Howard
K. Honda
Glenn Brown
Philadelphia
Henry T- Coates & Co
Alice Morse Earle
the Macmillan Company
Francis Clary Morse
United States
Miss Nichols
Tivoli
Bowood
Hatfield
Rockingham
Broughton Castles
Belton House
Levens Hall
Hamlin
Sturgis
Howard
Honda
California
C. H. Townsend
America
Pacific
Lewis Evans
Watford
Earle’s
Washington
Lished
Miss Morse
A Brave Frontier Book of Fights and Legends
Cyrus Townsend Brady presents a vivid survey of frontier clashes from the Alleghanies to the Mississippi and the Texas Republic. With maps and illustrations, the volume recounts massacres, sieges, and daring escapes featuring Harrison, Jackson, Crockett, and others, praising bravery while acknowledging foes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alleghanies
Mississippi
Texas Republic
Cyrus Townsend Brady
Louis Betts
Howard Giles
J. N. Marchand
Roy L. Williams
Harry Fenn
A. de F. Pitney
McClure, Phillips & Co
Brady
Harrison
Tecumseh
Jackson
Tohopeka
Fort Mims
King's Mountain
Alamo
Croghan
Fort Stevenson
Santa Anna
Boone
Brady and Crockett
Bryan's Station
Rare bindings exhibition at Bonaventure's book shop
An impressive display of luxurious book bindings and first editions at Bonaventure's No 6 West Thirty third Street shows live bindings from European makers and contemporary designers. The collection blends modern lavish tooling with historic styles, featuring Zaehnsdorf and Thierry pieces, plus notable volumes like Shelley's Posthumous Poems, Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter, Uncle Tom's Cabin, and In Memoriam by Yale Press.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bonaventure
West Thirtythird St
Europe
Levants
Zaehnsdorf
Levant
Shelley
London
Stevenson
Walt Whitman
Roycroft
Hawthorne
Boston
Thierry
Canape
Just Fils
Brown Levant
Yale Press
Lortie
David
Stikeman
de Sauty
Adams
Pomey
Citizen Train Life Recollected by George Francis Train
The memoir, dictated at age seventy four, chronicles George Francis Train’s rapid career across continents. From farming at four to partnership in a shipping firm at twenty, he built vast clippers, ran ships in Liverpool, and formed his own firm amid a life of extraordinary enterprise and travel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Train
Webster
Taylor
Henry Clay
Mr. Clay
Scotland
Lord John Russell
Balmoral
Highlands
England
John Russell
Constantine
Strelna
Russia
Hudson
London
St. Petersburg
George Francis Train
D. Appleton & Co
Mills
Bleeckerst
Liverpool
Also Mentioned on This Page
Holiday Books
As District of Columbia
Ferguson
Wren
Crockett
Betsy
Shakespeare
Travis
Lord
Australia
Union Pacific Railway
Ligue du Midi
Marseilles
Newport
Madison-ave
Grant and Greeley
Marshalseas
Ireland
Bastile
Lyons
Tours
Gambetta
France
New York
Ered Books
Citizen Train
E. B. Treat & Co., Publishers
David Gregg
D. D
Palestine
East
Makers OF
Theo. L. Cuyler
Morocco
R. S. MacArthur
Dr. MacArthur
U.S
J. H. Barrows
Thomas Hunter
the Normal College
City of New York
Great Quarterly Magazine
Quarterly
Adam Adams
Fifth Avenue
Awovel
Warie Corélh
Asthor
Christian
Paul Kelver
Jerome K_Jerome
Pall Mall Gazette
Dingie
Amelia E Barr
Boston Transcript
Fowler
Ellen T. Fowler
Isabel Carnaby
Los Angeles Herald
Dodd Meads Company
Chrismas
Hamilton Wright
Marie
Charles L. Hinton
Paul Leicester Ford
Christy
Margaret Armstrong
E.P. Dutton & Co
Robin Hood and His Adventures
Paul Creswick
T. H. Robinson
Robin Hood
Charles Dickens
Patten Wilson
Fairy Tales
Gammer Grethel
Marion Edwards
R. Anning Bell
Tales
Charles and
Mary Lamb
Walter Paget
S&vo
Robinson Crusoe
Jane Porter
Don Quixote
la Mancha
Miguel DE Cerne
W. Heath Robinson
L. L. Weedon
Ambrose Dudley
Ripon
W. Boyd Carpenter
Bob Knight
Bob
Charlotte Gurtis ‘Smith
J Logan
H. R. Gordon
Eric
Frederic Farrar
George A. Traver
Westminster Abbey
Violet Brooke-Hunt
Elizabeth Westyn Timlow
Dorothy Dot
Chicago Journal
Clara D. Pierson
Ty F. Ordon
William Wallace Whitelock
Harper Pennington
Careless Jane
Katharine Pyle
Lassie
Laddie
Mary D. Brine
Saints of
Italy
Ella Reotes
Jesus Christ
Ida W. Hutchinson
Jesus
Congregationalist
Panjandrum
Farrow
Alan Weight
Baker Minor
G. E. Fow
Alan Wright
Dutton
E. P. Dutton & Co., Publishers
West 23d St
Daniel Webster
C. H. van Tyne
Charles A. Eastman
E. L. Blumenschein
Hogarth
Austin Dobson
Sir Walter Armstrong
Ariel
Frances Weston Carruth
Dante
Karl Federn
Egypt
Lady Duff Gordon
George Meredith Nat
Simon Newcomb
Prince Kropotkin
Quaritch
Piccadilly London
Pickering & Chatto
Haymarket
Postey
Wenn’ Stevens, Sos and Stiles
Shaftesd Avenue
Rare Books and Prins
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!