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La QUINTINYE (Jean de) The Complete Gard'ner: or, Directions for Cultivating and Right Ordering of Fruit-Gardens and Kitchen Gardens, now compendiously abridg'd, and made of more use, with very considerable improvements by George London and Henry Wise, 4th edition, corrected, London 1704, 8vo, engraved frontispiece, 10 engraved plates (including 9 folding), few tears, 'Advertisement of J. Evelyn to the folio edition of Monsieur La Quintiney' leaves inserted between pages XIV & XV, with 3 pages of 18th century manuscript notes on planting fruit trees at the end inscribed "Francis Donneau French Gardener at Chelsea", rebacked with front board detached

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