[Rarebooks] FS: The 1728 & "best" English ed. of Dezallier's work on gardening w/38 folding plates

[Kenneth Karmiole]

(GARDENING) [Dezallier D'Argenville]. THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF GARDENING: Wherein Is Fully Handled All That Relates to Fine Gardens, Commonly Called Pleasure Gardens... The Second Edition. With Very Large Additions, and a New Treatise of Flowers and Orange Trees. London: Bernard Lintot. 1728. 4to. viii,297,(17)pp. Index and 3 pages of ads for Lintot at back. With 38 folding engraved plates, each with descriptive text. Title page printed in red & black. Cont. calf, nicely rebacked with the old spine laid down. Red morocco spine label. Front free endpapers with some stains from old glue? otherwise a solid, very good copy.    $1,750.00 (trade discount allowed)
This is the second and best English language edition, translated by John James. The first English edition was published in 1712 and had 218 pages with 32 plates. A very influential work in both France and England.

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