Lot 117: [DEZALLIER D'ARGENVILLE, Antoine Joseph (1680-1765) & Alexandre Jean Baptiste LE BLOND]. La theorie et la pratique du jardinage . Paris: Jean Mariette, 1722. 4° (252 x 192mm). 38 double-page or folding plates (margins a trifle browned).

[DEZALLIER D'ARGENVILLE, Antoine Joseph (1680-1765) & Alexandre Jean Baptiste LE BLOND]. La theorie et la pratique du jardinage. Paris: Jean Mariette, 1722. 4° (252 x 192mm). 38 double-page or folding plates (margins a trifle browned). Contemporary calf, gilt spine with brown lettering piece (upper joint cracked, a little rubbed).

"The bibliography of La theorie et la pratique du jardinage is complicated by the fact that the work was first published anonymously, then under initials, then as by Alexandre le Blond, who furnished the designs for some illustrations. As there were a good many editions, and as the names Dezallier d'Argenville and Le Bond (together) may be listed at five different points in dictionary catalogues, it is not easy to bring together complete information" (cf. Hunt 421).

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