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Lot 167
Sale 2107 - Collections of an Only Child: Seventy Years a Bibliophile, the Library of Justin G. Schiller
Dec 5, 2024
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[Natural History] Quintinie, Jean de la. Trattato Del Taglio de Gl'Alberi Fruttiferi Del fu Monsu Della Quintinye...
Bassano: For Gio. Antonio Remondini, 1697. First edition in Italian. 12mo. (xvi), 228, (3) pp., including half-title. Illustrated with one engraved plate and 11 engraved folding plates. Full drab paper-covered boards, title in manuscript on spine; all edges trimmed; faint dampstaining in top edge of several leaves.
A fine first edition in Italian of French gardener and agronomist Jean-Baptiste de La Quintinie's work on the cultivation of fruit trees. Gardener for King Louis XIV, Quintinie provides a comprehensive account of the pruning of different sized fruit trees, and includes 11 engraved plates depicting different trees and gardening tools.
This lot is located in Philadelphia.