29th Nov, 2023 10:00

Books & Works on Paper
 
  Lot 166
 

Gardening.- Rea (John)

Gardening.-

Rea (John) Flora: seu, De Florum Cultura. Or, a Complete Florilege..., second edition, with 'The Mind of the Front' verses leaf at beginning, additional engraved allegorical title, title in red & black, 8 engraved plates containing 16 plans of formal gardens, 3 fine engraved head-pieces of floral displays by F.H. van Hove, woodcut initials, slight browning, occasional spotting, slightly later calf, a little worn, rebacked, new endpapers, [Henrey 3266; Wing R422], folio, by T[homas] N[ewcomb] for George Marriott, 1676.

***”The most important English treatise on gardening to be published during the second half of the seventeenth century" (Henrey p.195).

Estimated at £300 - £400

 

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