Lot 328
Gardens.- Laborde (Alexandre de) Description des Nouveaux Jardins de la France et de ses Anciens Chateaux, 2 vol., first edition, Paris, Delance, 1808.
Hammer Price: £4,200
Description
Gardens.- Laborde (Alexandre de) Description des Nouveaux Jardins de la France et de ses Anciens Chateaux, 2 vol., first edition, text in French, English and German, half-title to text vol., plate vol. with fine engraved title with large vignette, a map, 2 plans, and 122 plates after Constant Bourgeois on 89 sheets, plus 3 additional sheets (2 of which with 4 plates with overslips and 1 plate of images to be cut out for overslips), tear to lower margin of plate 104, spotting, occasional foxing (mostly marginal), occasional light browning, contemporary half calf over light yellow boards, spines richly gilt and with red and black morocco labels, spine ends neatly repaired, boards with some scuffing, rubbed, [Millard, French Books, 84], folio (465 x 329mm.; binding 476 x 344mm.), Paris, Delance, 1808.
⁂ A very good set of what Millard calls 'an invaluable record of each of the gardens illustrated, and of a type of garden design that has all but disappeared.'
Description
Gardens.- Laborde (Alexandre de) Description des Nouveaux Jardins de la France et de ses Anciens Chateaux, 2 vol., first edition, text in French, English and German, half-title to text vol., plate vol. with fine engraved title with large vignette, a map, 2 plans, and 122 plates after Constant Bourgeois on 89 sheets, plus 3 additional sheets (2 of which with 4 plates with overslips and 1 plate of images to be cut out for overslips), tear to lower margin of plate 104, spotting, occasional foxing (mostly marginal), occasional light browning, contemporary half calf over light yellow boards, spines richly gilt and with red and black morocco labels, spine ends neatly repaired, boards with some scuffing, rubbed, [Millard, French Books, 84], folio (465 x 329mm.; binding 476 x 344mm.), Paris, Delance, 1808.
⁂ A very good set of what Millard calls 'an invaluable record of each of the gardens illustrated, and of a type of garden design that has all but disappeared.'
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