Curiosities of nature and art in husbandry and gardening : containing several new experiments in the improvement of land, trees, fruits, &c. : and also nice and useful observations relating to the vegetation and propagation of plants : with choice secrets to make plants, flowers and fruits larger, more beautiful, and to ripen earlier than usual : with several copper cuts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vallemont, abbé de (Pierre Le Lorrain), 1649-1721.

Contributor:

Jonathan A. Hill Endowed Fund.

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Curiositez de la nature et de l'art sur la végétation: ou, l'agriculture et le jardinage dans leur perfection. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Gardening--Early works to 1800.

Gardening.

Plant propagation--Early works to 1800.

Plant propagation.

Fruit-culture--Early works to 1800.

Fruit-culture.

Horticulture--Early works to 1800.

Horticulture.

Penn Provenance:

Hume, Patrick, Earl of Marchmont (bookplate)

Physical Description:

16 unnumbered pages, 352 pages, 12 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Curiosities of agriculture and gardening

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for D. Brown, at the Black Swan without Temple-Bar; A. Roper, at the Black Boy over against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet; and Fran. Coggan, in the Inner-Temple Lane, 1707.

Notes:

Author's name from French editions.

Illustrated half title.

Running title: Curiosities of agriculture and gardening.

P. 238, 270, 286 misprinted 338, 370, 386 respectively.

Signatures: A-Z⁸.

Translation of: Curiositez de la nature et de l'art sur la végétation.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Jonathan A. Hill Endowed Fund.

Cited in:

Hunt botanical cat., 416.

Henrey, B. Brit. botanical lit., 588.

Goldsmiths', 4386

ESTC T129254

OCLC:

27985104