ROBERTSON, William

Collection de Differéntes Espèces de Serres Chaudes 1798

Collection de Differéntes Espèces de Serres Chaudes, pour forcer des ananas, des arbres fruitiers, et pour préserver des plantes exotiques délicates; calculée pour l'usage des amateurs et celui des étudians de la botanique et du jardinage. Traduit de l'Anglois.
Paris; London, [R. Ackermann]; (Leipzig, F.G. Baumgärtner), [1798]. Oblong folio. With plans and views of garden hothouse architecture on 24 full-page engraved plates. Original paper wrappers.

(32) pp. text. Plesch, p. 383 (aquatint); OCLC WorldCat (3 copies); cf. Lindley library, p. 375 & Online Cat. (English ed.); not in Springer; Henrey.
First and only edition of the simultaneously published French translation of a popular model book on the garden architecture of greenhouses, published in English as A Collection of Various Forms of Stoves (London, 1798). This edition is known with two different imprints: London, Ackermann, and ours from "London and Paris" but, apparently published at Leipzig, by F.G. Baumgärtner, according to the pasted title-label on the wrappers.
Good large-paper copy with wide margins, uncut, wrinkled sides. Text pages slightly browned and foxed. Binding rubbed and strengthened at spine.

£4050.00