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Traité de la taille des arbres, et de la manière de les bien élever; Avec un nouveau traité de la culture des melons.

DAHURON, René


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Liège, J.F. Broncart, 1699

12mo: [8]-142-[2] pp.; 12 pl. (dampstaining, ms. annotations at lower pastedown with a sm. inventory of all the trees "in den hoff", "op de plaetse", "jegens de muer", "aent koijhuijs" etc.).

Contemp. calf (sides, corners and spine def.).

Later ed. (1st 1692) of this specialist monograph on the pruning of fruit trees by the baroque gardener R. Dahuron (1660-1730). Ill. with 12 full-page engr. plates. Dahuron worked for five years in the King's garden at Versailles where he was a pupil of Jean-Baptiste de La Quintinie (1624-1688). He then entered the service of the Duke of Brunswick-Lunebourg and then that of the King of Prussia in Berlin. With a bookseller's catalogue at the end.
Ref. Opac KBR. - De Theux 388. - Not in Stafleu & Cowan and Nissen.
Bound with: Mémoires de mathématique et de physique, tirez des registres de l'Académie Royale des Sciences. Tome premier. The Hague, H. van Bulderen, 1692. 24 pp.; 1 engr. pl.
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Traité de la taille des arbres, et de la manière de les bien élever; Avec un nouveau traité de la culture des melons.

Lot 1147

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