La théorie du jardinage [...]. Nouvelle édition [...] et ornée de figures en taille-douce.

12mo; portrait and 5 pl. (n.c., occ. foxing).

Contemp. marbled calf, gilt-orn. spine with raised bands, red edges (some sm. traces of use).

Ill. with an engr. front.-portr. of Schabol by V. Vangelisty after J. Robert and 5 fold. engr. pl. The French ecclesiastic horticulturist J.-R. Schabol (1690-1789) 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.