Byzondere aenmerkingen over het aenleggen van pragtige en gemeene landhuizen, lusthoven, plantagien en aenklevende cieraeden [...].

4to: [5]-xii-[7]-412-[14] pp.; 15 pl. (title soiled, marginal damp stains throughout of which some large and brown, closed tears pl. F and 2).

Modern half marbled calf with corners, marbled paper on boards, spine with raised bands and red title label.

First edition of one of the most famous Dutch books on the planning and cultivation of country gardens, concerning notably fruit and kitchen gardens and also greenhouses (incl. their heating) for the cultivation of pineapples, lemons, oranges and other (sub)tropical fruit. Complete with 15 engr. plates (all but 1 folding) by J. Wandelaar, J.C. Philips, J. Van der Spyk and F. Van Bleyswyck: plans of gardens, greenhouses, and botanical figures. Son of economist Pieter De La Court (1618-1685) and Catharina Van der Voort, the author (1664-1739) was a wealthy Leiden cloth merchant, art collector and gardening connoisseur (the first European to successfully grow pineapples). In this book he gives all the secrets of gardens, vegetables (forced cultivation), orchards (and special fruits culture), vines and flowers, and in addition the secrets of manure and greenhouses (he was the first to grow pineapples in the Netherlands).
Ref. STCN. - Not in Nissen, Pritzel.