Dec 04, 2014 - Sale 2369

Sale 2369 - Lot 191

Price Realized: $ 2,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(BOTANICAL--GARDENING.) 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 engraved plates, 2 double-page, [44], 184 [ie., 192], [4], 204 [ie., 184], [4], 4, 80 pages. Folio, 320x200 mm, contemporary speckled and paneled calf, hinges starting; clean throughout. Ink ownership inscription of Francis Faugoin, dated 1736, on front pastedown. first english edition. Hunt 388; Raphael, An Oak Spring Pomona, 2; Wing L431. London: Ma