ESTIENNE, CharlesMareMagnum
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In 8° (15,8x10,8 cm); 69, (1) cc.. Legatura in cartoncino molle. Un piccolo ed ininfluente forellino di tarlo abilmente restaurato nell'angolo bianco alto delle ultime 3 carte. Una piccola e leggerissima macchiolina, anche questa ininfluente al margine esterno bianco delle ultime 10 carte, praticamente invisibile e nel complesso esemplare in buone-ottime condizioni di conservazione. Celebre marca tipografica di Valgrisi al frontespizio ed all'ultima carta con "Serpente attorcigliato a bastone a forma di tau sostenuto da mani uscenti da nuvole". Prima traduzione italiana, fatta dal noto letterato modenese Pietro Lauro, di questa importante opera botanica del grande medico ed anatomista francese Charles Estienne. Terzo figlio di Henri Estienne, uno dei più grandi stampatori nel XVI secolo, lasciò un profondo segno nell'agricoltura cinquecentesca e seicentesca. Ispirandosi ai classici greci e latini pubblicò alcune delle opere più importanti in tema botanico e di orticoltura della sua epoca come il "Seminarium'', il '' Re Vinetum Ortensia" o il ''Praedium Rusticum". Nell'opera qui presentata, in prima edizione italiana, l'autore descrive le piante più adatte e migliori da piantarsi negli orti, la disposizione da tenersi ed il modo migliore di allevarle e accudirle con notizie utili anche sul come proteggerle dalle intemperie e dagli animali. Prima edizione italiana, non comune e ancor meno comune, dato l'uso manualistico che ne veniva fatto, in queste buone-ottime condizioni di conservazione.
français De 1808 à 1810. Ensemble de 10 tomes en 10 vol. in-8 de xxxj-568, 515, 542, 473, 512, 434, 500, 450, 559 et 461 pp.; veau marbré glacé, dos fauve orné, pièce de titre de maroquin rouge et de tomaison de maroquin vert, dentelle dorée encadrant les plats (reliure de l'époque). Avec un tableau dépliant et deux planches gravées dont une repliée. Très bel exemplaire.
4 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with frontispieces and 28 plates, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers, neat inscriptions on front free endpapers; cloth (grey/green/red/green respectively), gilt backs, coloured tops, a very good, bright, clean set in dustwrapper. Complete set of Vita's immensely popular garden books. The set comprises 'In Your Garden' (1951), 'In Your Garden Again' (1953), 'More for your Garden' (1955) and 'Even More for your Garden' (1958). COMPLETE SETS IN THIS CONDITION ARE SCARCE. Cross & Hulme A48, A51(a), A53(a), A56(a); Gretton, 44, 47, 48, 50.
Third edition, 8vo ( 220 x 135 mm), iv, 139, [9]pp., with index and final errata leaf, title page spotted with occasional spotting to the text, cont. half calf, joints cracked. John Graefer (1746-1802) a German botanist nurseryman born in Helmstedt. Trained by Philip Miller at the Chelsea Physic Garden, London, one of the most prominent botanical gardens of Europe during the 18th century, Graeffer was subsequently gardener to the Earl of Coventry at Croome Court, Worcestershire, which was being landscaped by Capability Brown, and then to James Vere, of Kensington Gore, a founder of the Royal Horticultural Society. Graeffer struck out on his own as a partner with Archibald Thompson and the prominent nurseryman James Gordon in Gordon's long-established Mile End nursery near the New Globe, Stepney, just beyond the East End of London. In the 1790s Graeffer obtained a recommendation from Sir Joseph Banks, to be employed as head gardener to the king of Naples.?Wikipedia. Provenance: Contemporary ownership signature to head of title page "Eliz. Carill Worsley, 1799." Henrey, 764; originally published in 1789 with two further eighteenth-century editions, a second edition also of 1789 and our third - all are rare. ESTC locates 5 UK copies and one in North America of this third edition.
8vo (185 x 115 mm), iv, 121, [1]pp., very clean internally, cont. calf, boards with gilt rolled tool border, marbled endpapers, a little scuffed and rubbed, the spine dulled, a.e.g. One of the leading nursery gardens in Scotland, originally founded around 1729 by Robert Dickson of Hassandeanburn and later moving to Edinburgh. This catalogue is of particular interest "both for the extraordinary number of plates listed and also for those named which are still considered as rarities, many of them America". Provenance: Ownership signature of Lady Hope of front-free endpaper. JISC locates copies at the BL, National Library of Scotland and Kew; Not listed on OCLC. Cox, A History of Gardening in Scotland. p.166.
Second edition, folio, half-title, [2], 56 (pages 29-32 misbound after page 36), [2, errata leaf]pp. 57 lithographed plates, orig. boards, rubbed at extremities, with a rather crude cloth reback. The second edition of these interesting and beautiful designs for landscaped gardens, by Gabriel Thouin (1747-1829), brother of the celebrated botanist Andr? Thouin to whom the work is dedicated. Strongly influenced by contemporary English garden designs and the idea of the "picturesque", these parks are noteworthy for their elegance and ease which retains some of the great French tradition of formal gardening. There are designs for municipal and private parks and also for fruit gardens, orangeries, vegetable plantations etc. The margins of the plates, beautifully lithographed by C. Motte, show designs for buildings meant to adorn the gardens; among the more exotic there are several ruins, both classical and mediaeval, Chinese pavilions, arabic coffee houses, pagodas and a host of other small buildings and garden ornaments. Johnston, The Cleveland Herbal, Botanical and Horticultural Collections, 838 (First Edition).
12 volumes reliures demi-basane. (Bon état).
Third edition, with large additions, 8vo (167 x 105 mm), [2], x, [4], 278, [18]pp., with the final advert leaf and additional engraved title page, 3 engraved plates, some light browning to blank fore-edges, cont. full mottled calf, small crack to upper lower joint else a very nice copy in a nice contemporary binding. "This popular treatise, with a title-page and three plates engraved by F. H. van Hove, contains much useful advice and information for the practical gardener. The author... is generally considered one of the most enlightened of the seventeenth-century writers on gardening and husbandry."?Henry. Henry, pp.205-206; Hunt, 380; Wing, W2606.
In-4°; pp. (10), 522, (18), 42 tavole nella segnatura incise su rame; frontespizio inciso, esemplare privo dell’antiporta, manca A1, D4, D5, Gg7, Kk4. Edizione originale, dedicata a Francesco Barberini del primo trattato di floricoltura, splendidamente illustrato dai principali artisti del tempo; opera dalla godibilità scientifica e estetica, è anche importante testimonianza del gusto del tempo. Tra le tavole anche le incisioni allegoriche di J.F.Greuter, e Claude Mellan, da Pietro da Cortona, Guido Reni, Andrea Sacchi; alcune mostrano disegni di giardini, strutture, vasi e attrezzi per il giardinaggio, molti sono dedicati alle varie specie di fiori e alle composizioni floreali. Ferrari si occupò dei giardini del Qurinale. Legatura in mezza pelle moderna, dorso lacunoso restaurato. Spotting su alcune carte.
2 tomes reliés en 1 volumes In-8, [8]-130; VIII-168p. Ouvrage fort rare et recherché contenant 50 planches hors texte coloriées à la main. Rousseurs éparses sur les pages de texte, les planches ont été épargnées, sauf les 2 dernières planches de la première partie (Pelargonium villosum coccineum / Pelargonium Lord Withword) qui souffrent d'importantes rousseurs. Envoi de photographies sur demande. [Nissen 1610].
45 vols., (vol. 43 lacking title page) numerous engraved plates, from the library of the Royal Agricultural Society of England with their bookplate, uniformly bound in brown buckram, a couple loose gatherings but overall a very good set. Young wrote many of the articles in the Annals himself, it was a labour of love and exhibited his belief in the importance of agriculture and the benefits of pursuing improvements. "It was intended, among other things, to put before the public the views and experience of the foremost agriculturists, but Young was bitterly disappointed in its sales." (ODNB). Contributors included King George III, writing under the name of "Ralph Robinson", and he had extensive correspondences with George Washington, who's library contained thirty-one volumes of the periodical ranging from 1784 to 1798. This periodical was continued until 1815 when Young's eyesight failed. Provenance: From the library of The Royal Agricultural Society of England.
First edition, 4to, xii, 215, [1]pp., with half-title, 42 hand-coloured lithographed plates, marbled endpapers, green half crushed morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf, spine tooled with floral decorations within raised bands, corners lightly rubbed otherwise a fine copy. An exceptionally clean copy of this work by one of the most popular and successful female botanical illustrators. Provenance: Bookplate of Mrs. L. Bartlett to front paste-down. Nissen BBI 1236.
First edition, folio (340 x 230 mm), xii, [2], 187, [1]pp., with half-title, engraved frontispiece portrait of the author, title printed in red and black with large engraved vignette, 2 folding plans of the Garden, 50 engraved botanical plates by Cosimo Mogalli after drawings by Tilli, alphabetically arranged with one to four specimens to a plate, cont. calf, neatly rebacked, a nice copy with the text and plates being bright and fresh. First edition of an important record of the botanical garden at Pisa which was founded around 1543 and was one of the finest and earliest gardens in Europe. Hunt notes that the alphabetical list of plants in this work is "one of the most important of the eighteenth century, and the volume memorializes the garden for all time." Hunt II, 457; Nissen BBI, 1967; Pritzel, 9356.
First edition, folio (330 x 210 mm), 3 parts in one, [2], 36; [4], 70; [4], 87, [5]pp., three separate title-pages within border of type ornaments, 39 engraved folding plates of fruits, all with bright contemporary hand-colouring, several related notes in ink to front free-endpaper, cont. half calf, paper covered boards (peeled away from upper cover), uncut. Johann Hermann Knoop (1700-1769), carried out much of his botanical research whilst curator of the gardens of Princess Maria Louisa in Leeuwarden. He broke new ground in the study of fruit varieties and he is regarded as the father of pomology. The first two part are devoted to the kitchen garden, the first part is illustrated with 20 splendid full-page engraved plates with hand-colouring, 12 are apples, 8 of pears, all showing several varieties, each labelled with its time of ripening, many for species now lost. The second has 19 engraved plates with contemporary hand-colouring showing peaches, plums, cherries, berries, etc. Part three is devoted to the cultivation of the garden and was issued un-illustrated. The fruit monographs are among the earliest books on the subject to be illustrated with coloured plates. Knoop himself made the original drawings, which were engraved by Jan C. Philips (1700-1773) or Jacob Folkema (1692-1767). Landwehr, Dutch Books with Coloured Plates, 88 (I) & 92 (II); Nissen, 1078 (I) & 1077 (II); Pritzel, 4754-4755.
First edition, large folio (520 x 355 mm), [32]pp., with a list of subscribers, and an initial leaf stating "Entered at stationers' Hall", 11 engraved plates (some lightly offset), each with explanatory leaf, with an original watercolour sketch for a heating device loosely inserted, occasional lightly foxing, orig. quarter calf, marbled boards, a very nice copy in original condition. Little is known of James Shaw, other than he was head gardener at Mulgrave Caslte, North Yorkshire, and this appears to be his only published work. He dedicates the book to his Patron and employee the Right Honourable Henry, Lord Mulgrave and states in his advertisement "Gardening at this period, is an object of general pursuit, from its useful and admirable effects. The most elegant and superior branch of it, is that of forcing fruit, which are natives of warmer climates; and the perfection of them, in some measure, depends upon proper constructed forcing-houses for the reception. I was therefore induced, from an unremitted application of Practice and Theory, commenced at an early period, to offer the following Plans, &c, to the Public; which may enable any Gentleman to be his own architect, in the most important part of the science alluded to, and also accommodate the practical Gardener, who may not have had an opportunity of acquiring this part of Theory: and, I trust, this work (which I believe to be the only general one yet published) will not be unacceptable to the admirers of Horticulture; particularly those who are, or may be in the future, interested in such improvements." The first seven plates depict a different design for constructing stoves and heated walls for the said appropriate fruit (i.e. the melon, the peach and nectarine, the vinery, pine and vine and the winter-fruiting pine stove), these are followed by four designs for the conservatory and the green-house. Each plate is accompanied by an explanatory leaf which also includes instructions on how to variegate the amount of heat used and the best way of propagating different fruits or vegetables. Several of the designs are after those already in use at Mulgrave Castle. Provenance: Signed by William Thomas Salvin (of Croxdale Hall, Durham) at head of title-page, Salvin is included in the list of subscribers. Not in Henrey, RIBA, Archer or Harris. An extremely rare book which has not appeared at auction for the last 50 years.