[Rarebooks] FS: John Evelyn's trans. of La Quintinie's "Compleat Gard'ner" London: 1693

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(NATURAL HISTORY) La Quintinie, Jean de. THE COMPLEAT GARD'NER; or, 
Directions for Cultivating and Right Ordering of Fruit-Gardens and of Kitchen 
Gardens; with Divers Reflections on Several Parts of Husbandry. In Six Books... 
To Which Is Added His Treatise of Orange-Trees, with the Raising of Melons, 
Omitted in the French Editions. Made English by John Evelyn Esquire, 
Illustrated with Copper plates. London: for Matthew Gillyflower. 1693. Folio. First 
edition. Irregular pagination/foliation. (44),106pp.,107-110 
leaves,111-114pp.,115-117 leaves, leaf 116,119-184,(4);116,137-204,4;4,80pp. Title printed 
in red & black. Frontispiece portrait and 11 plates (2 folding), complete. 
Cont. calf, rebacked, small chip at top of spine, and somewhat rubbed, but 
overall a very nice copy, the text and plates very fresh.     $5,000.00 (trade 
discount allowed)
The first English edition, and the first to contain the additions on orange 
trees, translated by Evelyn. La Quintinie (or La Quintinye) was the Chief 
Director of all the gardens of the French King. See Keynes, JOHN EVELYN #103 
("This is considered the last of Evelyn's major publications"). Wing L431. 
Henry. BRITISH BOTANICAL AND HORTICULTURAL LITERATURE #218.

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