Remarques necessaires pour la culture des fleurs - Pierre Morin
MORIN, Pierre. Remarques necessaires pour la culture des fleurs. Charles Amy: Lyon, 1686.
La maniere avec laquelle il les faut cultiver, & les ouvrages qu'il faut faire selon chaque mois de l'année. Avec une méthode facile pour faire toutes sortes de palissades, bosquets & autres ornemens qui servent à l'embellissement des jardins de plaisir & un catalogue des plantes les plus rares.
New edition (first published 1658). Catalogue of Plants with its own title-page. Pierre Morin, 17th century French florist. Text French.
Popular handbook on the cultivation of flowers including details of monthly tasks in the garden, when particular flowers bloom, which soils and climates they prefer. With a treatise on Carnations (pp 93-164), and a Catalogue of Plants, including anemones, ranoncules de Tripoly, tulipes, and iris bulbeaux.
[viii], 224, [8] pp.12mo, contemporary full calf, rubbed/scuffed, raised bands and gt tooling to spine, wormhole to foot of spine; conservation repair to joints with non-invasive repair with Japanese tissue. Small restorative repair to one corner of front endpaper. Some foxing; old book-label for "Sappey, médecin a Cerdon (Ain)" with shelf-number in ink to front pastedown.
A very pleasing copy of a rare work on flowers.
(Hunt, 375)