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Le Désert de Retz : le jardin pittoresque de Monsieur de Monville : a late eighteenth-century French folly garden : prospectus

Title: Le Désert de Retz : le jardin pittoresque de Monsieur de Monville : a late eighteenth-century French folly garden : prospectus / by Diana Ketcham.
Author: Ketcham, Diana.
Publication: San Francisco : Arion Press, [1990?]

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Restricted use	Rare Books+ 09-1729	Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Restricted use	Rare Books 09-1289	Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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[16] p. : ill.; 21 x 26 cm.

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Désert de Retz, a late eighteenth-century French folly garden.

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Text in French and English.
Promotional brochure for a limited edition "history of this landscape garden and its architectural monuments, including the false ruin, La Colonne détruite, from its origins on the eve of the French Revolution to its present restoration; with a preface by Olivier Choppin de Janvry; providing texts in English and French; illustrated with historical views of the park and related sites, a facsimile of the 26 engravings of the Désert in Jardins anglo-chinois a la mode of Le Rouge from 1785, and 32 photographs of the grounds and fabriques from 1988 by Michael Kenna."

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Rare Books 09-1289

OCLC

82282703

Author

Ketcham, Diana.

Title

Le Désert de Retz : le jardin pittoresque de Monsieur de Monville : a late eighteenth-century French folly garden : prospectus / by Diana Ketcham.

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San Francisco : Arion Press, [1990?]

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Choppin de Janvry, Olivier.

Kenna, Michael.

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Désert de Retz, a late eighteenth-century French folly garden.

Research Call Number

Rare Books 09-1289

Rare Books+ 09-1729