HIRSCHFELD, C.C.L.   GARTENKALENDER   Auf Das Jahr 1784      Kiel,   (1784).          The third of seven garden annuals written and compiled by C.C.L. Hirschfeld, who taught at the university of Kiel and is now best known as the author of his 5-volume THEORIE DER GARTENKUNST. This pocket almanac brings together a variety of material relating to gardens, horticulture and pomology, including a 52 page critical overview of recent garden literature and numerous reports of horticultural and pomological developments from throughout the world, including accounts received from Dalmatia, Java, Borneo, the Philippines, the Canary Islands, Brazil, the West Coast of Africa, and Connecticut. Other current garden and horticultural information is also added, including the full text, in French, of DeLille's LES JARDINS. The engraved plates show examples of picturesque landscape views, architectural elevations, horticultural apparatus and fruits. Also included are a 32 page almanac, often lacking.   Small 8vo (11.4 x 8.5 cm); (16) ff. + 344 pp. with decorative printer's ornaments + 14 engraved plates (2 folding).            Contemporary full mottled calf with gilt margined raised bands and gilt lettered leather titling piece; a small nick out of margin only on one page; a few tiny contemporary marginal pen notations, on one page accompanied by light underlining of a small portion of text; a very good well preserved copy. $850.00

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