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152 - [DE LA COURT VAN DER VOORT (Pieter)].
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Estimate €500 - €600
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[DE LA COURT VAN DER VOORT (Pieter)]. The Pleasures of the Countryside, or Specific Remarks on the Construction of Country Houses, of varying degrees of splendour, Pleasure Gardens, and Plantations. Leiden, Samuel Luchtmans & Sons; Amsterdam, Meynard Uytwerf, 1750. 4to, marbled calfskin, triple gilt rule, decorated spine, interior lace, daffodil-coloured edges (contemporary binding). First French edition of this important horticultural manual on greenhouse cultivation, originally published in Dutch in 1737, and translated into French by De Groot in this edition. Pieter de La Court van der Voort (1664–1739), a wealthy Dutch cloth merchant and gardening enthusiast, had early-crop greenhouses, orangeries and hotbeds on his country estate near Leiden. He was the first person in Europe to successfully cultivate pineapples. This work contains ‘very useful details on the cultivation of fruit trees in the Dutch climate’, writes Quérard, but also ‘observations on orange trees known in Italy as “bizarreries”, which bear fruit of several species on the same stem and on the same branch’. Sumptuous illustrations comprising 15 fold-out plates engraved with a burin, depicting citrus fruits, a pineapple and a tuberose, by Jan Caspar Philips and Jan Wandelaar, and various types of hotbeds, by Frans van Bleyswyck and Johannes van der Spyck. A plan of a kitchen garden is inserted into the text on p. 305. A fine copy in a contemporary Dutch binding. Worn caps and corners (discreet restoration), a small chip on the front cover, scattered foxing. Quérard, IV, 372 – Conlon, 50:470 – In foliis folia, Bibl. de Valenciennes, 2001, no. 45.
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About the sale Fine antique books – A library in the Languedoc
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Auction time 10/20/2026 at 2:00 PM
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