Traité du iardinage selon les raisons de la nature et de l'art : divisé en trois livres : ensemble diuers desseins de parterres, pelouzes, bosquets, & autres ornemens seruans à l'embellissement des iardins / par Iacques Boyceau, escuyer sieur de la Barauderie, gentilhomme ordinaire de la chambre du roy, & intendant de ses iardins.
- Format
- Book
- Language
- French
- Published/Created
- À Paris : Chez Michel Vanlochom, ruë sainct Iacques, à la Rose blanche, M.DC.XXXVIII. [1638]
- Description
- [1] leaf of plates, [5] p., [1] leaf of plates, 87 p., [87] leaves of plates : ill. (etchings, some folded), port. (etching with engraving) ; 41 cm. (fol.)
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Location | Call Number | Status | Location Service | Notes |
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Marquand Library - Rare Books | SB461 .B372 1638f Oversize Browse related items | Reading Room Request |
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- Etcher
- Notes
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- Caption title: Traitté du iardinage selon les raisons de la nature et de l'art.
- Running title: Du iardinage.
- Added title page is all engraved; portrait of author is etching with much engraving; garden plates are etchings with more or less engraving.
- Added t.p. is signed "Michel van Lochom," portrait signed "A. de Vris, pinxit" and "Gr. Huret, f."; garden plates are unsigned.
- Woodcut initials and intaglio tail-pieces throughout letterpress text.
- Signatures: pi1,ã⁴,A-G⁴,H⁶,I-K⁴,L².
- Leaves of garden plates, at least in this copy, are arranged in quires of 6 leaves through leaf 48, with single 2-plate image at center of all but 1st and 8th quires; leaves 49-86 are double leaves, each pair printed from one large plate, and pasted at fold to stub in gutter; leaf 87 is quadruple leaf, printed on two pairs of double leaves, probably from two plates, and pasted together at long edge, then folded to size of book and pasted at edge to stub in gutter.
- SAX copy: Leaves of garden plates are numbered in pencil.
- Binding note
- SAX copy: In contemporary plain sheep, spine tooled in gold, all edges speckled red and brown; in brown cloth clamshell box with dark brown morocco spine and green morocco spine labels.
- References
- Brunet v. 1, p. 1191.
- Other format(s)
- Also available in an electronic version.
- Other title(s)
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- Traité du jardinage selon les raisons de la nature et de l'art
- Traitté du iardinage selon les raisons de la nature et de l'art
- Traitté du jardinage selon les raisons de la nature et de l'art
- Du iardinage
- Du jardinage
- OCLC
- 11991833
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