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Verlag: Paris, Debure père,, 1770
Anbieter: Hünersdorff Rare Books ABA ILAB, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 8vo. lxxx + 528pp. With engraved device on title and woodcuts in text. Contemporary half sheep; corners a little rubbed. The dictionary is a substantial catalogue of terminology used in French gardening; it includes descriptions of garden features, methods of cultivation, horticultural implements and stages of growth in fruit, flower and tree; not only is the term itself defined, but its source and origin is given (ie as originally used in architecture, fortification, sculpture, medecine, chirurgie and anatomy; some new inventions as in boulingrin come from the English). Usage changed little during France s supremacy in garden art (from the latter half of the 16th century), and several French words were adopted abroad ( treillage, plate-bonde, espalier , even boulingrin ).