[Rarebooks] fs: Today in History: Prune those trees!!

[Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA]

March 26, 2004, bookseller F.Proper notices daffodils poking up through
snow in the garden while trying to come up with a "for sale" posting for
the email list...

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(Audot, Louise Eustache). FIGURES POUR l'ALMANACH DU BON JARDINIER...
Paris; Audot: nd (ca.1817). A charming gardening manual by a prolific and
popular French horticultural author. Audot's manual, first published ca.
1813, went through several editions and offered the serious gardener
complete nuts and bolts advice and diagrams for such advanced operations
as cross-pollination, grafting and air-layering and espaliering trees. The
plates include details of the leaves, flowers and sexual systems of
various types of fruits and flowers, as well as examples of tools,
shovels, rakes, scythes, pruners, barrows, and also several plans for
greenhouses and cold frames. The plates are delicately engraved and very
attractive.

Hardcover.  4.5"x7.25", 56 pages plus 27 copper engraved plates; bound in
the (probably) original or at least contemporaneous blue boards, quite
rubbed and scuffed now, with the top portion of the spine lacking; lacks
front and rear blank endpapers, scattered offsetting from the plates; two
plates with very minor attempts at hand-coloring, a bit of spotting and
toning here and there; institutional stamp, but not actually
ex-institutional; overall internally a very nice copy in old boards.
[20834] $450.00

Illustrations-
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