Author:La Quintinye, Jean-Baptiste

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Instruction pour les jardins fruitiers et potagers, avec un traité des orangers et des reflexions sur l'agriculture

By: La Quintinye, Jean-Baptiste

Price: £1,000.00

Publisher: Amsterdam, Henri Desbordes: 1692

Seller ID: 015779

Condition: Very Good

Second edition, revised. Two volumes bound in one, small quarto, with two title pages, 13 engraved plates (of which two are folding). a folding engraved portrait, 8 attractive engraved chapter headings, 7 small engravings within the text, pp (30), 276; 244, red speckled edges, contemporary full calf, raised bands and spine label, slightly rubbed but very sound. There are three early signatures on the title page - one being Alexander Brodie. A small hole in the margins of three pages, a slight marginal tear to one plate, otherwise this is an exceptionally clean and bright copy internally. Ver...
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The Compleat Gard'ner: Or, Directions for Cultivating And Right Ordering Of Fruit-Gardens, And Kitchen-Gardens; with divers reflections on several parts of husbandry [LACKING TWO PLATES]

By: La Quintinye, Jean-Baptiste

Price: £1,000.00

Publisher: Spread Eagle Westminster hall, Matthew Gillyflower & James Partidge: 1693

Edition: First English edition

Seller ID: 016899

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Good

First English edition. Illustrated with an engraved portrait frontispiece, nine engraved plates (of eleven - so LACKING two plates), a few small wooducts in the text, many charming engraved chapter headings, folio, title page printed in red and black, pp (42), 188, 208, 4, 80, the top, bottom and fore-edge red, a few blemishes internally but overall very clean, the hinge before the frontispiece cracked but sound, contemprary calf, rebacked probably in the ealy nineteenth century, a little bumped and worn, the spine with more wear and a little splitting and fraying at the head and tail. An ear...
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Author:La Quintinye, Jean-Baptiste

Instruction pour les jardins fruitiers et potagers, avec un traité des orangers et des reflexions sur l'agriculture

The Compleat Gard'ner: Or, Directions for Cultivating And Right Ordering Of Fruit-Gardens, And Kitchen-Gardens; with divers reflections on several parts of husbandry [LACKING TWO PLATES]

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