SPL Hand Coloured Rare Book Collection Featuring Norman R Bobins

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SIEBECK, R.
Guide pratique du Jardinier-Payagiste a l'usage des proprietaires, amateurs, architects, ingenieurs, jardiniers, etc......traduction de allemand par j. rothschild......introduction generale par Charles Naudin. hand coloured garden designs

Illustrated with 24 double-page garden plans, lithographed and all in colour. It is preceded by an introduction by Charles Naudin who has augmented the text that follows with considerations of French gardens.

Published
Paris, Madrid, Leipzig: 1870.
Plates
24
Binding/Size
L=FOLIO
Value
0-5000
Published
Paris, Madrid, Leipzig: 1870.
Ref
554

2 Vols. Troisieme edition. Folio (19x15 inches) quarter contemporary blue morocco over marbled boards. Marbled endpapers. Title in gilt to spine with raised bands and spine in six compartments lettered on two and four. Small gilt motif in other compartments. The top and tail of the spine are a little rubbed and worn. Half-title 2 identical titles, leaf for the Seconde Partie and 24 numbered but untitled, hand-coloured lithographic plates of gardens. Plus, in an identically bound slipcase, a truly monumental garden plate of BOIS DE BOULOGNE in Paris hand-coloured lithograph linen backed in 16 parts measuring 55" x70". Unfortunately, it is wanting the text. 1. Plan 1. Parts A & B. 2. Plan 2. 3. Plan 3. 4. Plan 4. 5. Plan 5. 6. Plan 6. 7. Plan 7. 8. Plan 8. 9. Plan 9. 10. Plan 10. 11. Plan 11. 12. Plan 12. 13. Plan 13. 14. Plan 14. 15. Plan 15. 16. Plan 16. 17. Plan 17. By water. 18. Plan 18. 19. Small plan 19. 20. Small plan 20. 21. Small plan 21. 22. Plan 22. 23. Plan 23. 24. Plan 24.