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    An Important Botanical Library, Part II

    New York, East

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    5 June 1997

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    Lot 259

    [DENDROLOGY]. LA QUINTINYE, JEAN DE. Instruction pour les jardins fruitiers et potagers... nouvelle édition. Paris: 1756. 4 parts in 2 vols., 4to, contemporary French mottled calf, spine gilt but slightly chipped, extremities a trifle rubbed, some old dampstaining and light marginal worming. Engraved plates, illustrations. Pritzel 5075. Philippe de Vilmorin, bookplate -- JONSTON, JOHN. Dendrographias, sive historiae naturalis de arboribus et fructibus. Frankfurt: 1662. Folio, modern calf onlaid with panels from an earlier contemporary binding, edges of leaves over-entusiastically stained purple, occasionally affecting plates. FIRST EDITION. Half-title, engraved additional title, plates. Nissen BBI 1007. -- And 52 other works, 61 vols., 18th and 19th century, on trees, in English, French and German. (64)

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    [DENDROLOGY]. LA QUINTINYE, JEAN DE. Instruction pour les jardins fruitiers et potagers... nouvelle édition. Paris: 1756. 4 parts in 2 vols., 4to, contemporary French mottled calf, spine gilt but slightly chipped, extremities a trifle rubbed, some old dampstaining and light marginal worming. Engraved plates, illustrations. Pritzel 5075. Philippe de Vilmorin, bookplate -- JONSTON, JOHN. Dendrographias, sive historiae naturalis de arboribus et fructibus. Frankfurt: 1662. Folio, modern calf onlaid with panels from an earlier contemporary binding, edges of leaves over-entusiastically stained purple, occasionally affecting plates. FIRST EDITION. Half-title, engraved additional title, plates. Nissen BBI 1007. -- And 52 other works, 61 vols., 18th and 19th century, on trees, in English, French and German. (64)

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