Theatre des plans et iardinages
Subtitle: contenant des secrets et des inventions incognuës à tous ceux qui jusqu'à present se sont meslez d'ecrire sur cette matiere : auec un traicté d'astrologie, propre pour toutes sortes de persones, & particulierement pour ceux qui s'occupent à la culture des iardins : let tout enrichy de quantité de figures
Publisher: Chez Charles de Sercy ...
Published: 1652
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 411
Subjects: Landscape gardening; Early works to 1800; Gardening; Design; Astrology; Parterres
Other titles: Theatre des plans et jardinages
Notes: "Auec priuilege du roy."

Title vignette; head-piece, initial letters.

Title page printed in red and black.

Author's name from the "Privilege du roy," p. facing t.p.

Book's dedication, signed by Charles de Sercy, is addressed to Nicolas Fouquet.

Plates 1-22 identical to plates 1-22 in [1595] unpublished manuscript with title Theatre de plans et iardinages.

Plates designed and signed lower left by Claude Mollet's sons: André Mollet (plates 1, 5, 9, 14, [15] [signed lower right corner: A. Mollet], 16, 19, 22); Jacques Mollet (plates 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 21); Noël Mollet (plates 4, 20); Claude Mollet (plates 17, 18).