The compleat gard'ner : or, Directions for cultivating and right ordering of fruit-gardens and kitchen-gardens; with divers reflections on several parts of husbandry. In six books / By the famous Monsr. de La Quintinye ... To which is added his Treatise of orange-trees, with the raising of melons, omitted in the French editions. Made English by John Evelyn ... illustrated with copper plates.

Accession number

PML 53048

Creator

La Quintinie, Jean de, 1626-1688.

Published

London : Printed for M. Gillyflower [etc.], 1693.

Notes

Frontispiece: port. of the author by Florent de La Mare-Richart (ca. 1630-1718) engraved by William Elder (fl. 1679-1700).

Description

22 p.l., 184, [4], 116, 137-204, [3], 4, 80p. : ill., plates (1 fold.) ; 33 cm

Provenance

Mrs. J.P. Morgan's collection.

Binding

1/2 green morocco.

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