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DEZALLIER D'ARGENVILLE, Antoine Joseph (1680-1765). La Theorie et la pratique du jardinage . Paris: Jean Mariette 1709.
DEZALLIER D'ARGENVILLE, Antoine Joseph (1680-1765). La Theorie et la pratique du jardinage . Paris: Jean Mariette 1709. 4 o (254 x 192 mm). 32 engraved double-page or folding plates. Contemporary sprinkled calf (some light wear). Provenance : Hugh Earle (armorial bookplate on pastedown). FIRST EDITION. According to Hunt, Dezallier d'Argenville's La Théorie et la pratique du jardinage "was his most popular work, which went through many editions at Paris, The Hague, and London. The bibliography of [this work] is complicated by the fact that the work was at first publisherd anonymously, then under initials, then as by Alexandre Le Blond, who furnished the designs for some of the illustrations. There were French editions also in 1711, 1715, 1719, 1722, 1737, 1747, 1760, and 1777, and English editions in 1712 and 1728--and others may turn up." Hunt 421. [ With: ] DEZALLIER D'ARGENVILLE, Antoine Joseph. La Theorie et la pratique du jardinage . Paris: Jean Mariette 1713. 4 o (250 x 188 mm). 37 (of 38) engraved double-page or folding plates. Contemporary sprinkled calf. Provenance : Jacques-Gery-Joseph Colpin (early bookplate on pastedown); early manuscript notes laid in. Later edition. Berlin Kat. 3463; not mentioned in Hunt. -- DEZALLIER D'ARGENVILLE, Antoine Joseph. La Theorie et la pratique du jardinage . Paris: Jean Mariette 1732. 4 o (253 x 188 mm). 38 engraved plates, mostly double-page or folding, by C. Lucas and others. Contemporary French mottled calf. Later edition. See Hunt 421. (3)