Gastronomy 2021 Catalogue

41 B a u m a n R a r e B o o k s G a s t r o n o m y 2 0 2 1 “By Far The Most Important Of The 17th-Century Treatises On Fruit Growing” 45. DE LA QUINTINYE, Monsieur. The Complete Gard’ner: Or, Directions for Cultivating and Right Ordering of Fruit- Gardens, and Kitchen Gardens… The Third Edition, Corrected. London, 1701. Octavo, contemporary full paneled brown calf rebacked. $2600. Click for more info Exceptionally scarce 1701 corrected edition in English of the 1690 first French edition by Louis XIV’s Chief Director of royal gardens at Chantilly, Rambouillet and Versailles, issued by famed English “nurserymen London and Wise,” featuring copper-engraved frontispiece and ten engraved plates (nine folding), in rarely found contemporary paneled calf boards. La Quintinye, Chief Director of all the gardens of Louis XIV for nearly 40 years, created “the fruit and vegetable gardens at Chantilly, Rambouillet and Versailles… the fame of La Quintinye and his work at Versailles was soon spread far, and he visited England, where he met Evelyn, who later translated his book (in 1693)” ( Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society ). His work “is by far the most important of the 17th-century treatises on fruit-growing’” (Sinclair Rohde). With section on Melons not present in the French edition. As issued with Contents at rear; unnumbered “advertisement of J. Evelyn, Esq; to the folio edition” between pp. xiv-xv. Early armorial bookplate. Interior generally fresh and bright, contemporary paneled calf boards expertly restored.