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Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare BooksLangendijk 8
4132 AK Vianen
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ananas-growing in Europe
Byzondere aenmerkingen over het aenleggen van pragtige en gemeene landhuizen, lusthoven, plantagien en aenklevende cieraeden: waer by gevoegt is eene verhandeling aengaende het snoeijen en voortteelen van vrugt- en wilde boomen ... als mede om onfeilbaer ananas-vrugten, ook citroen-, limoen- , oranje-boomen, en andere gewassen van warmer luchtstreek, onder onze koude voort te queeken en te vermenigvuldigen, nevens een berigt om de benoodigde weer-glazen daer toe te maken; nog beproefde waerneemingen wegens het voortteelen van aerd- en warmoes vrugten, het behandelen der moestuinen, het aanleggen der broeibakken voor meloenen en soortgelyke gewassen. 2e druk, vermeerderd met twee aenhangzels, handelende over het aanleggen der trekkassen voor de persikken enz. en over het kweeken der bloemen.
Amsterdam, K. van Tongerlo & F. Houttuin, 1763.
4to. Contemporary half calf (boards with later marbled paper). With illustration and 16 engraved plates (13 folding). XII,(4),522,(18) pp. Second and best edition, first published in 1737. - Pieter de la Court van der Voort (1664-1739) was, through his wife, the owner of the Berbice country estate in Voorschoten from 1688 to 1716. Under his leadership, the property grew into a beautiful country estate with a formal garden layout that was customary for the time, with an orangery, barge house, orchards, a walled vegetable garden and several experimental espalier fruit walls. He designed the Berbice orangery from 1696 after he had traveled around Europe to gain knowledge and inspiration. His international network was large and included people like Tsar Peter the Great of Russia, who even came to Berbice to admire the orangery. Pieter is the first to get a pineapple to flower and fruit in the Netherlands, which was very special at that time. His knowledge about growing (tropical) fruits and his ideas about the construction and design of country estates became widespread with the publication of his book. Because it was also translated into French and German, it reached an unprecedentedly wide audience. - The first book on succesful ananas-growing in Europe. - (Age-browned).
4to. Contemporary half calf (boards with later marbled paper). With illustration and 16 engraved plates (13 folding). XII,(4),522,(18) pp. Second and best edition, first published in 1737. - Pieter de la Court van der Voort (1664-1739) was, through his wife, the owner of the Berbice country estate in Voorschoten from 1688 to 1716. Under his leadership, the property grew into a beautiful country estate with a formal garden layout that was customary for the time, with an orangery, barge house, orchards, a walled vegetable garden and several experimental espalier fruit walls. He designed the Berbice orangery from 1696 after he had traveled around Europe to gain knowledge and inspiration. His international network was large and included people like Tsar Peter the Great of Russia, who even came to Berbice to admire the orangery. Pieter is the first to get a pineapple to flower and fruit in the Netherlands, which was very special at that time. His knowledge about growing (tropical) fruits and his ideas about the construction and design of country estates became widespread with the publication of his book. Because it was also translated into French and German, it reached an unprecedentedly wide audience. - The first book on succesful ananas-growing in Europe. - (Age-browned).
€ 1.650
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