Description des nouveaux jardins de la France et de ses anciens châteaux : mêlée d'observations sur la vie de la campagne et la composition des jardins / par Alexandre de Laborde ; les dessins par Ct. Bourgeois ; description of the modern gardens and ancient castles in France.

Accession number

PML 55906

Creator

Laborde, Alexandre, comte de, 1773-1842.

Published

Paris : Impr. de Delance, 1808-[1815].

Credit line

Gift of Henry S. Morgan, 1965.

Notes

Descriptions in French, English and German. Introduction in French only.
"Description des nouveaux jardins de la France et de ses anciens châteaux" on 2 l. have moveable parts.
Added engraved title page.
Drawings by Florent-Fidèle-Constant Bourgeois largely engraved by Olimpe Neveu, Joseph Perdoux, Jean Desaulx, Anne Athena Massard, F.G. Wexelberg and Felipe Cardano.

Description

226 p. : 94 plates, map ; 50 cm.

Provenance

Mrs. J.P. Morgan's collection.

Binding

3/4 maroon morocco.

Classification

Book

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Department

Printed Books