DECAISNE, Joseph & NAUDIN, Charles. - Manuel de l'Amateu - Lot 28

DECAISNE, Joseph & NAUDIN, Charles. - Manuel de l'Amateur des Jardins. Traité général d'horticulture... Ouvrage accompagné de figures dessinées par A. Riocreux, gravées par F. Leblanc - Paris, Firmin-Didot, sans date [1862-1871] - 4 volumes in-8 ; half-havane chagrin, spines decorated with gilt fleurons (period binding). Original edition with 751 engravings in the text. Volume I: Principles of botany and plant physiology most necessary to the grower, together with a theoretical and practical account of operations in the cultivation of useful and ornamental plants. Volume II: Cultivation of outdoor and indoor ornamental plants in the different climates of France. Volume III: Cultivation of forest and orangery shrubs and trees. Tome IV: Cultivation of vegetables and fruit trees in the open air, and of food plants in the greenhouse. Good copy, slight discrepancy in the binding of volume IV, scattered brown spots. (Pritzel, Thesaurus literaturæ botanicæ, 2095- Nissen, Die botanische Buchillustration, 458).