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[Botany - Gardens] [WHATELY, Thomas] L'art de former les jardins modernes, ou L'art des jardins anglois. Traduit de l'anglois [...]. Paris, Ch.-A. Jombert, 8vo: [2]-lxiv-404-[pp.; 1 pl. (sl. foxing, marg. damp stains). Contemp. marbled calf, gilt-orn. spine with raised bands, red edges (repairs to joints, head, tail and corners). First French edition by François de Paule Latapie of the "Observations on Modern Gardening" (London, 1770), one of the fundamental works on romantic gardens. Illustrated with a fold. plan of the house and gardens of Stowe House and Gardens. The politician and writer Whately (1726-gives all theorical and pratical information on English landscape gardening before the "Essay on Modern Gardening" (by Horace Walpole and Humphry Repton It also provides details on the emerging "Anglo-Chinese" style of gardens. Ref. Ganay - Barbier I:- Not in Prizel, Nissen (BBI).