Le Jardinier fleuriste

by Louis Liger

$800 · Offered by Rootenberg Rare Books

Rouen: 1788. 12mo. . xii, 419, 1 pp. 14 folding engraved plates, 5 woodcut text illustrations. Contemporary gilt calf-backed pastepaper boards recased , edges sprinkled red, blue silk marker. Bookplate of Ottavia Gambara, an Italian poet and literature professor of the early 19th century. Some plates foxed, otherwise a good, complete copy. Item #19865 Later edition of Liger’s influential Baroque gardening manual first printed in 1704 , copiously

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