[Rarebooks] FS: 1817 French Garden Gardeners Book

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

“Figures pour l'Almanach du Bon Jardinier...”

By Louise Eustache Audot.
Published in Paris; no date, but around 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 period blue boards. Covers quite 
rubbed and scuffed, with the top portion of the spine lacking; lacks 
front and rear blank endpapers, scattered offsetting from the plates; 
two plates with minor (failed) attempts at hand-coloring, a bit of 
spotting and toning here and there; very minor wormhole in the gutter 
margin of several pages; institutional stamp, but not actually 
ex-institutional (it's a long story).  $150

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