Live auction - Lot 1326
[Gardening]
La Théorie du jardinage [...] ouvrage rédigé après sa mort sur ses mémoires, par M. D*** [Antoine-Nicolas Dézaillier d'Argenville].
Paris, Frères Debure, 1774
Hammer price: €
80
€ 120 / 150
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Lot description
8vo: xliv-563 pp.
Contemp. calf, gilt orn. spine with 5 raised bands, red edges (corners and sides rubbed, joints rubbed and splitting). Good copy.
Later edition (1st 1771) of this horticultural treatise by the French ecclesiastic horticulturist J.-R. Schabol (1690-1789). Ill. with an engr. front.-portr. of Schabol by V. Vangelisty after J. Robert and 5 fold. engr. pl. by J. Robert. Schabol was in particular interested in fruit trees. In this work a series of short treatises on gardening in general, peach growing, shelters, trellises, pruning of fruit trees, orange tree growing, cauliflowers, cardoons, melons, etc., as well as strawberries and the cultivation of grapevines, etc.
Ref. BnF. - Not in Nissen, Pritzel.
Prov. Libr. labels. - "B. Coppieters" (ms. entry on title). - Ms. entry on French title.