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24 - GARDENS. — Rabel (Daniel). Book of Various Designs for Flowerbeds. Paris: F. L. D. Ciartres (François Langlois de Chartres), n.d. (circa 1630). Oblong folio, vellum (original binding).
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GARDENS. — Rabel (Daniel). Book of Various Designs for Flowerbeds. Paris: F. L. D. Ciartres (François Langlois de Chartres), n.d. (circa 1630). Oblong folio, vellum (original binding). A COLLECTION OF GREAT BEAUTY AND EXTREME RARITY, admirably preserved in its original vellum binding. It consists of a title page in a cartouche depicting a garden with a palace in the background and 20 plates by Daniel Rabel, numbered 1 through 20, with plate 19 signed “Betin inventor.” Following this are 22 unsigned plates depicting flowerbeds, numbered 1 through 22; the last plate also provides a perspective view of a garden with four flowerbeds, planted with trees, featuring four gates surmounted by towers and a fountain in the center. Finally, 22 plates depicting border parterres for French-style gardens, numbered 1 through 22, signed “André Mollet inventor”; plates 17 and 18 signed “Claude Mollet...”; plate 20 signed “Noel Mollet...”; plate 21 by Jacques Mollet... (Claude Mollet was gardener to Kings Henry IV and Louis XIII). A TOTAL OF 65 PIECES IN SUPERB PROOF PRINTS. From the Foule Library (ex-libris, auction of June 3, 1914, No. 151).
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