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GARDENING -- FRANCE]. CUSSON, PIERRE. Leçons de botanique, faite au jardin royale de Montpellier par Monsieur Imbert. En Hollande [Avignon?] 1762. 12mo, 155 x 92mm., contemporary calf-backed boards, worn, slight foxing . A satire against Imbert. Ed. Bonnet, bookplate; KKM/HSNY, bookplate -- MERIGOT, JEAN. Promenade ou itineraire des jardins d'Ermonville. Paris: Merigot et al, 1788. 8vo, 212 x 140 mm., contemporary polished calf, gilt-lettered spine label, rubbed, front hinge just cracked, slight browning and scattered foxing affecting some plates . 25 full-page aquatint plates (numbered 0, 1-24), 2 pages of engraved music (Chanson du berger de la Grotte verte). "Sold by T. Hookham , New Bond Street," bookseller's label. Hunt 695. -- POINSOT, P.G. L'Ami des jardinieres. Paris: Levrault, Schoell, 1804-05. 2 vols., 8vo, 220 x 120 mm., contemporary half calf, gilt spines, edges stained green, very slight rubbing. Half-titles, 22 engraved plates (15 folding) of garden designs, structures and implements. Ink ownership stamp on title -- WHATELY, THOMAS. L'Art de former les jardins modernes, ou L'art des jardins Anglois. Paris: Jombert, 1771. 8vo, 198 x 120 mm., contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine, edges speckled blue . Large folding engraved plate ("Plan de la maison et des Jardins de Stowe en Buckinghamshire...") at end. -- LIGER, LOUIS. Le Jardinier Fleuriste. Amsterdam: E. Roger, 1706. 2 vols., 12mo, 154 x 86mm., contemporary calf, gilt spines, rubbed, spines chipped . Titlepages in red and black, 14 folding engraved plates, several small woodcuts in the text. Friedlaender & Son, bookseller's ticket; C. Harman Payne, bookplate; KKM/HSNY, booksplate -- MORIN, PIERRE. Remarques necessaires pour la culture des fleurs. Paris: Sercy, 1658 [Bound with:] Catalogue des quelques plantes a fleurs. Paris, 1658. 8vo, 165 x 102 mm. contemporary limp vellum, worn . FIRST EDITION. Engraved titlepage by F. Chausseau. Pritzel 6454 -- DUCHESNE, ANTOINE NICHOLAS. Histoire naturelle es fraises. Paris: Didot & Pancoucke, 1766. 8vo, 164 x 90 mm., contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine, edges stained red. Folding engraved table. -- BESNIER, PIERRE CHARLES LOUIS. Le jardinier botaniste, Paris: C. Prudhomme, 1705. 12, 160 x 95mm. contemporary calf, rebacked preserving original gilt spine, later endpages. Folding plate. J.H. Derasse, printed book-label -- POITEAU, PIERRE ANTOINE. Figures pour l'almanach du bon jardinier. Paris: Audot, n.d. [c.1839]. 8vo, 165 x 102 mm., half vellum . Half-title, 67 engraved plates, some folding, 4-pp. advertisements dated January 1839 --DEZALLIER D'ARGENVILLE, ANTOINE NICOLAS Dictionnaire du jardinage. Paris" Debure, 1777. 8vo, 169 x 96 mm., contemporary speckled calf, gilt spine, extremities worn, joints cracked, paper label at base of spine. 17 large folding engraved plates of garden tools and structures. KKM/HSNY, bookplate. (10)