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Instruction pour les jardins fruitiers et potagers, avec un traité des orangers et des reflexions sur l'agriculture
by La Quintinye, Jean-Baptiste
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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London, Greater London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Amsterdam: Henri Desbordes, 1692. Second edition, revised. Two volumes bound in one, small quarto, with two title pages, 13 engraved plates (of which two are folding). a folding engraved portrait, 8 attractive engraved chapter headings, 7 small engravings within the text, pp (30), 276; 244, red speckled edges, contemporary full calf, raised bands and spine label, slightly rubbed but very sound. There are three early signatures on the title page - one being Alexander Brodie. A small hole in the margins of three pages, a slight marginal tear to one plate, otherwise this is an exceptionally clean and bright copy internally. Very good indeed.. Full-Leather. Very Good.
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- Bookseller
- Mike Park Ltd
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015779
- Title
- Instruction pour les jardins fruitiers et potagers, avec un traité des orangers et des reflexions sur l'agriculture
- Author
- La Quintinye, Jean-Baptiste
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Publisher
- Henri Desbordes
- Place of Publication
- Amsterdam
- Date Published
- 1692
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Gardening; Fruit & Vegetables; Early works;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Mike Park Ltd
Biblio member since 2005
London, Greater London
About Mike Park Ltd
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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