Halloween 2020

H i s t o r y , P h i l o s o p h y & R e l i g i o n 49 Fine New Acquisitions H alloween 2020 The Complete Gard’ner , With Copper-Engraved Frontispiece & Nine Engraved Folding Plates, In Contemporary Calf Boards 47. DE LA QUINTINYE, Monsieur. The Complete Gard’ner: Or, Directions for Cultivating andRight orderingof Fruit-Gardens, andKitchenGardens…TheThirdEdition, Corrected. London, 1701. Octavo, contemporary full paneled brown calf rebacked. $2600. Click for more info 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—“the most detailed work at the time upon fruit trees and their culture”—containing the section on Melons not present in the French edition. 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). The first French edition of his “great work… was published in 1690, two years after his death… the tedious repetition of some parts made an abridgment obviously desirable. This was provided by the famous nurserymen London and Wise, but was probably Evelyn’s own work.” It was chiefly through London and Wise edition “that the precepts of La Quintinye became generally known” ( Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society ). Early armorial bookplate. Interior generally fresh and bright, contemporary paneled calf boards expertly restored.