[Le] Blond, A., Die Gärtnerey, so wohl in ihrer Theorie oder Betrachtung, als Praxi oder Übung, allwo von denen schönen Gärten.. Und aus dem Frantzösischen ins Teutsche übersetzt durch Fr. A. Danreitter. With allegoric title copper and 36 most doublepage plates . Augsburg, J. A. Pfeffel 1731. Contemp. vellum with label in colors. 8vo. Double title, 6 ll., 368 pp.

Wimmer/L. p. 248. - Güntz II, 7. - Fromm 7158 (all under A.-J. Dezallier d'Argenville). - Dochnahl p. 19. - Ornamentstich-Slg. Berlin 3464. - Cf. Fowler 170. - First German edition. - "The first treatise on formal gardens to give as much weight to theoretical pricipes as to actual practice and to formulate the ideas and achievements of Le Notre and his followers into a rational system" (British Arch. Libr. I, 874). - Foxed in places, 1 folding plate with marginal tear, double title somewhat cropped close. All in all fine copy.

First German edition. - "The first treatise on formal gardens". With allegoric title copper and 36 most double-page plates. Contemp. vellum with label in colors. 8vo. - Foxed in places, 1 folding plate with marginal tear, double title somewhat cropped close. All in all fine copy.