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Le jardinier fleuriste, ou la culture universelle des fleurs, arbres, arbustes, arbrisseaux servant à l'embellissement des jardins. Contenant plusieurs parterres sur des desseins nouveaux, bosquets, boulingrins, sales, salons, & autres ornemens de jardin. ... Par le sieur L. Liger. Nouvelle edition, revue, corrigée & augmentée considérablement, avec beaucoup de planches en taille douce. Du fonds de Claude Prudhomme.
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LIGER, Louis, sieur d'Auxerre (1658--1717)
Le jardinier fleuriste, ou la culture universelle des fleurs, arbres, arbustes, arbrisseaux servant à l'embellissement des jardins. Contenant plusieurs parterres sur des desseins nouveaux, bosquets, boulingrins, sales, salons, & autres ornemens de jardin. ... Par le sieur L. Liger. Nouvelle edition, revue, corrigée & augmentée considérablement, avec beaucoup de planches en taille douce. Du fonds de Claude Prudhomme.
Paris: chez Saugrain fils, 1754.
xii, 412 [i.e. 422] p., XIV fold. pl. : wdcut illus. ; 16.7 cm. (12º).
First published Amsterdam, 1706. Copies are also found with the same imprint of Saugrain fils or that of Savoye, but the collation: xx, 535, [1] p., [14] fold. pl. (12º). Similar copies to the Soane one are listed on ICCU (Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico, Italy). Plates III and V wrongly captioned 'Page 395' and 'Page 31' respectively, and bound at those locations instead of pp. 295 and 310 in this copy. The plates called for in the text as plates VIII and XI are unnumbered, the former bearing a reference to 'page 462', and bound here at the end of the main text. The plates called for as plates VII, IX, X and XII in the text are numbered VIII, X, XI and XIII respectively.
Binding C18th mottled sheep, floral gilt-tooled spine, maroon spine-label, marbled endpapers.
Reference Number 2657
Le jardinier fleuriste, ou la culture universelle des fleurs, arbres, arbustes, arbrisseaux servant à l'embellissement des jardins. Contenant plusieurs parterres sur des desseins nouveaux, bosquets, boulingrins, sales, salons, & autres ornemens de jardin. ... Par le sieur L. Liger. Nouvelle edition, revue, corrigée & augmentée considérablement, avec beaucoup de planches en taille douce. Du fonds de Claude Prudhomme.
Paris: chez Saugrain fils, 1754.
xii, 412 [i.e. 422] p., XIV fold. pl. : wdcut illus. ; 16.7 cm. (12º).
First published Amsterdam, 1706. Copies are also found with the same imprint of Saugrain fils or that of Savoye, but the collation: xx, 535, [1] p., [14] fold. pl. (12º). Similar copies to the Soane one are listed on ICCU (Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico, Italy). Plates III and V wrongly captioned 'Page 395' and 'Page 31' respectively, and bound at those locations instead of pp. 295 and 310 in this copy. The plates called for in the text as plates VIII and XI are unnumbered, the former bearing a reference to 'page 462', and bound here at the end of the main text. The plates called for as plates VII, IX, X and XII in the text are numbered VIII, X, XI and XIII respectively.
Binding C18th mottled sheep, floral gilt-tooled spine, maroon spine-label, marbled endpapers.
Reference Number 2657