[Botanica] John Loudon. Country Residences

A treatise on forming, improving, and managing Country Residences; and on the choise of situations appropriate to every class of purchasers. In all which the object in view is to unite in a better manner than has hitherto been done, a taste founded in nature with economy and utility, in construction or improving Mansions, and other Rural Buildings, so as to combine architectural fitness with picturesque effect (...) with an appendix (...) of Mr. Repton's mode of shewing effects (...) and by thirty-two engravings. John Loudon. [Two volumes]. London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1806.

4to, 2 volumes uniformly bound, halfleather, marbled boards, title on spine in black and gilt stamping, (2),XII,(42),353; -723,(6),(2) pp., complete with 32 plates, see message to the binder at the end of vol. II. 2x bookplate. Bindings with light traces of use. One plate with extra flap (p. 705). First edition. (total 2)