La pratique du jardinage [...]. Ouvrage rédigé après sa mort sur ses mémoires, par M. D.***. Nouvelle édition, revue, corrigée, augmentée, & ornée de figures en taille-douce.

2 vol., 12mo: [4]-504, [4]-492-[1] pp.; 15 pl. incl. 14 folding (some foxing, some pp. sl. browned in vol. I, marg. defect I:385-386).

Contemp. marbled calf, gilt orn. spines with raised bands, red & dark green leather labels, red edges (headpieces, joints and corners repaired esp. vol. I, sl. scratched or soiled). Under modern common slipcase.

Edition given and revised by Antoine-Nicolas Dezallier d'Argenville, Antoine-Joseph's son, on Schabol's notes (1st ed., posthumous, in 1770). Devoted mainly to peach trees (taken as an example of fruit trees), the second half of volume II being mainly devoted to orange trees and vines (pruning, trellising, grafting, maintenance, diseases, etc.). Schabol (1690-1768) made some improvements to the cultivation of fruit trees and is best known for his Dictionary for the theory and practice of gardening and agriculture (1767). Complete with 15 plates.
Joined, same author: Dictionnaire pour la théorie et la pratique du jardinage et de l'agriculture, par principes, et démontrées d'après la physique des végétaux. Paris, Debure père, 1770. 12mo. Contemp. calf, gilt ornamented spine, red edges. Prov. Michel François Pelckmans (contemp. bookplate). - H.G. Marchant "secrétaire de Louvain, 1792" (ms. note). - Joseph E. Opsomer, "prof. Univ. Lv, 31/3/1951" (id.)
Ref. Not in Pritzel nor Nissen (for the 3 vol).