EVELYN, JOHN. Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest Trees, and the Propagation of Timber [including Pomona, or an Appendix Concerning Fruit-Trees, In relation to Cider, and the Kalendarium Hortense: Or, the Gard'ners Almanac], London: Martyn and Allestry, 1664, folio, contemporary sheep, extremities and corners worn, dampstains to last leaf, FIRST EDITION, half-title, title-page in red and black with engraved crest, several small woodcuts in the text. Hunt 388; Henrey 218; Keynes 103; Wing L-431 -- LA QUINTINIE, JEAN DE. The Compleat Gard'ner; or, Directions for Cultivating and the 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. London: Matthew Gillyflower and James Partridge 1693. Folio, modern panelled calf, new endleaves, fore-margins of a few leaves at beginning and end worn at fore-margins . First Edition in English, Translated by John Evelyn, engraved frontispiece portrait of La Quintinie (by W. Elder after F. de la Mare Richart), titlepage printed in red and black, 11 engraved plates (several folding), several engraved head-pieces and text illustrations, Henrey 218; Wing L-431. (2)
EVELYN, JOHN. Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest Trees, and the Propagation of Timber [including Pomona, or an Appendix Concerning Fruit-Trees, In relation to Cider, and the Kalendarium Hortense: Or, the Gard'ners Almanac], London: Martyn and Allestry, 1664, folio, contemporary sheep, extremities and corners worn, dampstains to last leaf, FIRST EDITION, half-title, title-page in red and black with engraved crest, several small woodcuts in the text. Hunt 388; Henrey 218; Keynes 103; Wing L-431 -- LA QUINTINIE, JEAN DE. The Compleat Gard'ner; or, Directions for Cultivating and the 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. London: Matthew Gillyflower and James Partridge 1693. Folio, modern panelled calf, new endleaves, fore-margins of a few leaves at beginning and end worn at fore-margins . First Edition in English, Translated by John Evelyn, engraved frontispiece portrait of La Quintinie (by W. Elder after F. de la Mare Richart), titlepage printed in red and black, 11 engraved plates (several folding), several engraved head-pieces and text illustrations, Henrey 218; Wing L-431. (2)
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