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How to create a perfect garden

AGRICOLA, Georg Andreas.
L'agriculture parfaite, ou nouvelle decouverte, touchant  la culture & la multiplication des arbres, des arbustes, et des fleurs.

With engr. portrait of the author as frontispiece, woodcut vignette on title and 34 engraved folding plates.<BR>

With engr. portrait of the author as frontispiece, woodcut vignette on title and 34 engraved folding plates.<BR>

With engr. portrait of the author as frontispiece, woodcut vignette on title and 34 engraved folding plates.<BR>

With engr. portrait of the author as frontispiece, woodcut vignette on title and 34 engraved folding plates.<BR>

With engr. portrait of the author as frontispiece, woodcut vignette on title and 34 engraved folding plates.<BR>



Traduit de l'Allemand avec des remarques. Amsterdam, Pierre de Coup, 1720. 2 parts in 1 vol. 8vo. Contemporary calf, ribbed, decorated and gilt spine with title lettered in gold.
With engr. portrait of the author as frontispiece, woodcut vignette on title and 34 engraved folding plates.
(8), 261 (1 blank); (4), 146, 8 pp.

First French edition translated from the German of this work which discusses the history and increasement of trees, bushes and flowers, divided in two parts. The German edition was published in Regensburg in 1716-17 in two vols. After that followed the Dutch translation in 1719 and the French in 1720.
The chapters are a.o. on the nourishment and soil needed for trees and the ancient practises as well as various 'modern' ways which were applied for the increasement of trees, bushes and flowers. Both parts of the work are illustrated with 17 folding engraved plates each (31 of ca. 17x19 cm, 2 of 31x24 cm and one of 17x30 cm) on which leaves, the growth of peaches, gardening tools etc. are depicted. On the recto of the frontispiece one Felix Vindevogel wrote his name in ink and the manuscript entry in ink on page 146 of part 2 reads 'à l'usage de frere Godefroi Bouvart, Bibliothequaire des Bern, 1723.'
Georg Andreas Agricola (1672-1738) was a professor in Medicine and Philosophy on the university of Regensburg. Once he claimed to have found a substance in a vegetable mummy to let trees grow in very short time; in only one hour the mummy should produce 60 trees. With this and other writings concerning agriculture Agricola became a famous and fortunate man.

Good copy.- (Binding sl. worn).
Cat. Plesch Collection p. 123;  Hunt II, 452; Mc.Donald, Agricultural writers, 1721 (English ed.); not in Cat. Natura Artis Magistra nor Pritzel.

Related Subjects: 18th Century  Agriculture & Husbandry  Botany  Engravings  French  Gardens 

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