Main entry:

La Quintinie, Jean de, 1626-1688.

Title & Author:

The compleat gard'ner ; or, Directions for cultivating and right ordering of fruit-gardens and kitchen-gardens : with divers reflections on several parts of husbandry ; In six books / by the famous Monsr. de La Quintinye, chief director of all the gardens of the French-king. To which is added his Treatise of orange-trees, with the raising of melons, omitted in the French editions ; Made English by John Evelyn Esquire, illustrated with copper plates.

Publication:

London : Printed for Matthew Gillyflower ... and James Partridge ..., 1693.

Description:

2 volumes in 1 : illustrations (copperplates), 1 portrait ; 33 cm

Notes:
"First edition of Evelyn's translation"--Hunt.
"A treatise of orange-trees" formed part of the original French ed. of La Quintinie's Instruction (Paris, 1690); however "The raising of melons", with caption title: Directions concerning melons, is a translation of a separate work with title: Traité de la culture des melons. This Traité was included in later editions of the Instruction.
Vol. 1: [44], 184 [i.e. 192], [4] p., [3] leaves of plates (2 folded); v. 2: 204 [i.e. 184], [4] 4, 80 p., [9] leaves of plates.
Title of v. 1 in black and red; v. 2 has no special t.p.
Advertisements: p. [22] of 1st group of v. 1.
Includes indexes.
Translation of: Instruction pour les jardins fruitiers et potagers.

Subject:

Melons.
Gardening Early works to 1800.
Oranges.
Jardinage Ouvrages avant 1800.
Gardening.

Form/genre:

rare books.
Early works.

Added entries:

Evelyn, John, 1620-1706.
La Quintinie, Jean de, 1626-1688. Traité de la culture des melons. English.
Directions for cultivating and right ordering of fruit-gardens and kitchen-gardens.
Treatise of orange-trees.
Raising of melons.
Directions concerning melons.
Divers reflections on several parts of husbandry.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 100444
Call No.: ID:86-B20014
Status: Missing