Dec 06, 2012 - Sale 2297

Sale 2297 - Lot 303

Price Realized: $ 1,680
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(BOTANICAL.) Quintinye, Jean de. 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 . . . To which is added, His Treatise of Orange-Trees, with the Raising of Melons, omitted in the French Editions. Made English by John Evelyn Esquire. Engraved frontispiece portrait and 11 plates, including 2 double-page. [44], 184 [i. e., 192], [4], 204 [i. e., 184], [4], 80 pages. Folio, contemporary paneled calf gilt, spine ends chipped, joints cracked, cords intact; light marginal dampstains and minor soiling on opening leaves, worming not impairing legibility through upper portion of approximately 60 leaves in middle of volume and 10 leaves at end. Earl of Ilchester armorial bookplate. London: Matthew Gillyflower and James Partridge, 1693

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first edition in english. Hunt 388; Raphael, An Oak Spring Pomona 2; Wing L431.