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Garden Architecture
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By The Gardener Of Louis XIV
QUINTINYE, Jean de La. Trattato del Taglio de gl'alberi Fruttiferi. Bassano, Remondini, 1697.
Large 8vo., (9) ff., 228 pp., (2) ff., including frontispiece, and with 10 folded plates. Bound in contemporary vellum over boards, title written in ink in a neat hand on spine. Small and rather light waterstain in lower right margin of quires K-end, some leaves dusty, some minor tears at folds of plates, but generally a fresh and attractive copy, with the plates in fine condition. Very good.
$1,250 First Italian edition of this classic on the kitchen garden by La Quintinye, for whom Louis XIV created the title of Directeur G'ral des Potagers Royaux. The work covers the fundamentals of all fruit-bearing trees and emphasizes the timing of careful pruning, a relaxing pastime in which Louis himself is known to have engaged. The plates show a bird's eye view of the garden at Versailles, branches of fruit-bearing trees at various stages of development, pruning knives.
First published posthumously in 1690 (allegedly owing to the author's modesty), translations followed soon after, including one by John Evelyn in England, but this production from Remondini is possibly the most beautiful of all editions.
* Pritzel 5057; Hunt 388 (English).
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