RAPINI Renati - Gabriel BROTIER : - Renati Rapini Hortorum Libri IV, et Cultura Hortensis. Hortorum Historiam addidit Gabriel Brotier.

Paris, Typis J.Barbou, 1780, in-8°, 15,5 x 9 cm, engraved frontispiece (Prévost), title with wood engraved vignette + xxxvi + 319 pp + (1)(publisher's catalogue) with copper engraved vignette on pp.4, contemporary full calf, double gilt fillet on covers, decorated back, all edges gilt, minor traces of use on the binding, interior very crisp. Very nice copy. With a commentary on the poem and a history of the classical garden by the French jesuit Brotier (1723-1789). .