[ARDENE, Jean Paul de Rome, Marquis d']. - Traité sur la con - Lot 5

[ARDENE, Jean Paul de Rome, Marquis d']. - Traité sur la connoissance et la culture des Jacinthes, par l'auteur du "Traité des Renoncules" - A Avignon, chez Louis Chambeau, 1765 - In-12, 156 pp. with 2 plates of folding engravings; marbled calf, smooth spine richly decorated with gilded fillets and fleurons, fawn morocco title-piece, roulette on the edges (contemporary binding). Edition decorated with 2 beautiful folding engraved plates showing several figures of the flower and its botanical details. Merit of the Hyacinth. Where the name Hyacinth comes from. Description of the flower and its species. Qualities of well-conditioned hyacinths... Ways to speed up flowering... De la Tubéreuse ou Jacinthe des Indes... A fine copy. (Pritzel, Thesaurus literaturae botanicae, ed. I, 264).