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RAPIN, René - Hortorum libri IV cum Disputatione de Cultura Hortensi - 1665
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René Rapin, forfatter og illustrator, Hortorum libri IV cum Disputatione de Cultura Hortensi, første udgave 1665, latin, Paris Typographia Regia, læderbind med indlagte plader, 230 sider, tilstand: Fine. Klik på den blå "gå til varen" knap, for at købe eller byde på denne vare. Den samlede pris vil blive vist inden du afgiver dit bud.
Lovely quarto: (xxvi), 219 with engraved frontispiece, engraved vignette with royal arms on title, nine engraved head- and tailpieces, and six engraved initials.
A nicely bound copy of the first edition of Rapin's celebrated poem on gardens, and a fine piece of book design. The binding is later and described as being 'a la grotesque'.
René Rapin (1621-1687)'s neo-Latin didactic poem on gardens, first published in 1665, translated into English by John Evelyn in 1672-73, and celebrated for its early descriptions of the classical French garden. Written to "complete" Virgil's Georgics, Rapin ("the father of Jesuit Georgic
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