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Important 18th-century book on gardening

BRADLEY, Richard.
Nouvelles observations physiques et pratiques sur le jardinage et l'art de planter, avec le calendrier des jardiniers. Ouvrage traduit de l'Anglois de Bradley, enrichi de figures en taille-douce.

Engraved frontispiece depicting the gardens of a country estate, and 12 numbered folding engraved plates by Pierre-François Legrand, showing all kinds of flowers, garden lay-outs, insects etc., including 3 very interesting plates of a greenhouse (plan, in- and outside views) in vol. 3

Engraved frontispiece depicting the gardens of a country estate, and 12 numbered folding engraved plates by Pierre-François Legrand, showing all kinds of flowers, garden lay-outs, insects etc., including 3 very interesting plates of a greenhouse (plan, in- and outside views) in vol. 3

Engraved frontispiece depicting the gardens of a country estate, and 12 numbered folding engraved plates by Pierre-François Legrand, showing all kinds of flowers, garden lay-outs, insects etc., including 3 very interesting plates of a greenhouse (plan, in- and outside views) in vol. 3

Engraved frontispiece depicting the gardens of a country estate, and 12 numbered folding engraved plates by Pierre-François Legrand, showing all kinds of flowers, garden lay-outs, insects etc., including 3 very interesting plates of a greenhouse (plan, in- and outside views) in vol. 3

Engraved frontispiece depicting the gardens of a country estate, and 12 numbered folding engraved plates by Pierre-François Legrand, showing all kinds of flowers, garden lay-outs, insects etc., including 3 very interesting plates of a greenhouse (plan, in- and outside views) in vol. 3



Paris, Pierre-Aug. Paulus du Mesnil, Jean-Luc Nyon, & Siméon-Prosper Hardy, 1756. 3 vols. 12mo. Contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt in compartments with red title labels lettered in gold, red painted edges. Engraved frontispiece depicting the gardens of a country estate, and 12 numbered folding engraved plates by Pierre-François Legrand, showing all kinds of flowers, garden lay-outs, insects etc., including 3 very interesting plates of a greenhouse (plan, in- and outside views) in vol. 3 XXXVI, 358, (2): Privilege; (5), X-XVI, 510; (2), 12, 1-430, 433-442 pp.

First and only edition of the French translation of two horticultural and botanical works by Richard Bradley (1688-1732) was an English botanist, and the first Professor of Botany at Cambridge University (1724). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1712. Bradley "deserves pre-eminent notice as one of the most voluminous writers upon agriculture and gardening" (Mc Donald, Agricultural writers, p. 170-1).
This French translation, made by Philippe-Florent de Puissieux (1713-1772), is based on Bradley's New improvements of planting and garening both philosophical and practical (London 1717; sixth edition: London 1731), and on his Gentleman and gardeners Kalendar (London 1718).
The first work describes the properties of particular plants (flowers, vegetables, fruit etc.), their cultivation and the arrangement of flower- and vegetable gardens. Although Bradley drew substantially upon the contributions of others, his writings represent a significant beginning for productivity ecology. All the investigations that he reported could have been extended and rendered more precise. The book was the basis of ecological generalizations during the eighteenth century.
Vol. 3 contains the translation of the Gentleman and gardeners calendar, directing what is necessary to be done every month, in the kitchen garden, fruit-garden, nursery, management of forest trees, green-house and flower-garden. With directions for the making and ordering hop-grounds....To which is added, the design of a green-house (finely engrav'd) and after a new manner, contriv'd purposely for the good keeping of exotick plants (1718). This work contains also supplemental observations to vol. 1-2, and also a chapter titled ''Lettre a Samuel Hartlieb sur les vergers d'Hereford'', on  pp. 352-404, and a postscript on pp. 404-30. Bradley also wrote 'A short historical account of coffee'(London, 1715). He was the first to bring an accurate picture of the coffee tree to England drawn from nature by himself. The present work contains also remarks on the coffee plant in vol. 3, pp. 344-46.
The translation is adapted to French circumstances and conditions, especially regarding the just dates on which one has to plant, crop, etc. the various plants and trees.

Good set.- (Top of bindings sl. damaged, hinges and edges rubbed; some minor foxing).
Pritzel 1076; Oxford Companion to Gardens, p. 70; cf. Hünersdorff. Coffee. A Bibliography. A guide to the literature on coffee, pp. 174-5.

Related Subjects: England  France  Gardens  Horticulture 

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