Instruction pour les jardins fruitiers et potagers, avec un traité des orangers, suivy de quelques réflexions sur l'agriculture
By: par feu mr de La Quintinye ...
Publisher: Chez Claude Barbin, sur le second perron de la sainte Chapelle
Published: 1690
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Subjects: Citrus fruits; Early works to 1800; Fruit-culture; Gardening
Other titles: Traité des orangers; Instrvc P·Les Iardins
Notes: First edition.

"Achevé d'imprimer le 20. fevrier 1690."

Portrait engr. by Cornelis Vermeulen after Florent de La Mare-Richart.

Signatures: t. 1. a⁴, A-B⁴, A-Z⁴, Aa-Zz⁴, Aaa-Ttt⁴, Vuu²; t. 2. A-Z⁴, Aa-Zz⁴, Aaa-Zzz⁴, Aaaa-Cccc⁴ (Bb₁, Hh₃, Bbb₁ incorrectly signed B, Ah₃, BBb, respectively)

Pages 412, 416, 472, 481-488, t. 1, p. 283, 380, 398-399, 422, 451, 550, 553, t. 2, incorrectly numbered 312, 316, 462, 471-478, 263, 038, 198, 299, 442, 514, 450, 535, respectively; no. 101-104, 179-180, 393-394 repeated in the paging, t. 2.

Headpieces.

Pritzel, 5075

contemporary full mottled calf; tips worn, spine nicked, and short split on lower joint of volume one; early underlining on a few pages in the section on orange trees, and occasional mild browning of text, but overall a well preserved copy in its original binding.

two vols., 4to (25.3 x 18.2 cm.; (iv) + 522 + (2), 568 pp. with nine engraved vignettes and three garden plans + frontispiece portrait + folding garden plan + 12 plates of tools and pruning methods.