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A Cautionary Tale, A Short History of the Perils of Excess from Ancient Times to the Beginning of the Modern Era
Diamond-encrusted, alligator-skin handbags. Eighteen-course feasts. Yachts the length of city blocks. In the twenty-first century, many point to such ...
An Independent Life
A plainspoken, racy patrician who distrusted democracy but opposed slavery and championed freedom for all minorities, an important player in the Ameri...
An illustrated study brings to life the atmosphere and personalities of pre-revolutionary Paris, traces their influence on the American envoy, and rec...
Gardens Through History
Full-color, captioned photographs of magnificent gardens throughout the world accompany a history of garden and landscape design that includes an exam...
Grouped together after the part-title "Swann's Way" are the portraits of the family members, diplomats, doctors, school friends, salonistes, and serva...
The Unnatural Art of the Garden
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A Selection of Eugène Atget's Garden Photographs
On the occasion of the anniversary of Thomas Jefferson's birth, The Eye of Thomas Jefferson, a major contribution to the study of Jefferson and his wo...
A wealth of illustrations effectively traces the development of the art and architecture of the French garden over the course of three centuries, high...
This work traces Monticello's history and development from the first plans through the 40 years of building and rebuilding that continued right up to ...
Seven Essays
This new biography of Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), by one of the leading scholars of nineteenth- and twentieth-century French music, is based on a wealt...