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• [BALLON Gilles et GARNIER]
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- BALLON Gilles et GARNIER]
Nouvelle instruction facile pour la culture des fi guiers, où l'on apprend la manière de les élever, multiplier & conserver, tant en Caisses, qu'autrement. Avec un Traité de la Culture des Fleurs
Paris, Charles de Sercy, 1692. Small in-12 (152 x 92 mm), 164 pp.-[2] ff.
Full jansenist fawn calf, spine ribbed with gilt fleurons, burgundy morocco title-piece, roulette on the edges, red edges (period binding).
Very rare first edition of one of the first treatises dedicated to the cultivation of the fig tree, composed by Gilles Loistron, sieur de Ballon (1634-1693), director of tree plants at Versailles, and Garnier, gardener to the King. The work is followed by a Traité de la culture des fleurs, sometimes attributed to Pierre Morin.
Charming woodcut vignettes, headbands and endpapers.
A fine copy.
PROVENANCE Anthelme-Michel-Laurent de Migieu, marquis de Savigny-les-
Beaune, who died in 1788 (see Omont Henri, "Un bibliophile bourguignon au XVIIIe siècle. Collection de manuscrits du Mis de Migieu au Château de Savigny-les-Baune (1760)", in Revue des Bibliothèques, 11, 1901, pp. 235-291), signature in brown ink on the lower back cover, we read: "Demigieu, 1754. 1 [l]».
(Epidermure on upper board, upper cap missing, small holes in tail).
Nouvelle instruction facile pour la culture des fi guiers, où l'on apprend la manière de les élever, multiplier & conserver, tant en Caisses, qu'autrement. Avec un Traité de la Culture des Fleurs
Paris, Charles de Sercy, 1692. Small in-12 (152 x 92 mm), 164 pp.-[2] ff.
Full jansenist fawn calf, spine ribbed with gilt fleurons, burgundy morocco title-piece, roulette on the edges, red edges (period binding).
Very rare first edition of one of the first treatises dedicated to the cultivation of the fig tree, composed by Gilles Loistron, sieur de Ballon (1634-1693), director of tree plants at Versailles, and Garnier, gardener to the King. The work is followed by a Traité de la culture des fleurs, sometimes attributed to Pierre Morin.
Charming woodcut vignettes, headbands and endpapers.
A fine copy.
PROVENANCE Anthelme-Michel-Laurent de Migieu, marquis de Savigny-les-
Beaune, who died in 1788 (see Omont Henri, "Un bibliophile bourguignon au XVIIIe siècle. Collection de manuscrits du Mis de Migieu au Château de Savigny-les-Baune (1760)", in Revue des Bibliothèques, 11, 1901, pp. 235-291), signature in brown ink on the lower back cover, we read: "Demigieu, 1754. 1 [l]».
(Epidermure on upper board, upper cap missing, small holes in tail).