[BONNEFONS, Nicolas de]. Le jardinier François, qui enseigne à cultiver les Arbres, & Herbes Potageres. Amsterdam: Jean Blaeu, 1660. Sixth edition.
Sale 1022 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
May 4, 2022
9:00AM CT
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$400
Sold for $250
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Lot Description
[BONNEFONS, Nicolas de]. Le jardinier François, qui enseigne à cultiver les Arbres, & Herbes Potageres... Sixiesme edition. Amsterdam: Jean Blaeu, 1660.
12mo (122 x 73mm). Engraved frontispiece and 2 engraved plates. (Frontispiece cut to platemark in upper margin. Contemporary Dutch vellum, yapp edges (minor soiling, lower corner chipped on I1 slightly affecting catchword, lacking front and rear free endpapers). Provenance: purchase note on pastedown dated 1699; some contemporary marginal annotations and underlinings in text.
Sixth edition. The book is divided into three sections, the first dealing with the earth, fruit trees, nurseries, grasses, shrubs, mosses, etc.; the second with melons, beets, radishes and other vegetables; and the third, with the preserving and conserving of various fruits. One plate depicts the interior of a busy kitchen. The first edition was published in Paris in 1651.
Selections from Antiquariat Botanicum, Dr. Eugene Vigil
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