La théorie et la pratique du jardinage et de l ag - Avec Figures en taille-douce, dessinées & gravées d'après Nature. Tome Premier

Features

Author:  Roger Schabol

Publisher:  Chez Guillaume Desprez

Place of printing:  Paris

Year of publication:  1767

Product Condition:
Full leather binding with gilt titles and friezes on the spine with five nerves; dust spots and abrasions to plates, edges and corners; abrasions and woodworm holes on the back and hinges; missing headphones. Red cuts with dust spots. Irregularly blued papers; humidity gore present on the first cards up to E4 and in a less invasive way also at the edges of the cards from V8 to Y8, from Bb6 to Dd2 and from Kk at the end of the volume; 3 small lacks without loss of text in Y3. Text in French. Texte en Français.

Pages:  C, 531, (3)

Format:  In sixteenth

Dimensions (cm):
Height:  17
Width:  11

Description

Only the first volume of this work, dedicated to the Dictionnaire étymologique et raisonné sur le jardinage. Jean-Roger Schabol, an interesting figure of clergyman and horticulturalist, in the substantial Preface to the Dictionary, aims to educate "excellens Ouvriers" by applying a rational and scientific gaze to the art of gardening and horticulture, proposing innovations that he himself has experimented with. . The volume is illustrated by 19 tablets. engraved f.t. and a beautiful engraving on the front door depicting the glimpse of an Italian garden with the verse Virgiliano Fortunatus et ille Deos qui novit agrestes surmounted by a tondo with the profile of Louis XV

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