LA QUINTINYE (Jean de). Instructions for fruit and vegetable gardens. With a treatise on orange trees, and reflections on agriculture. Paris, compagnie des libraires associés, 1756. 2 volumes in-4, seeded calf, spine decorated (contemporary binding). New edition of this famous work on fruit and vegetable gardens, the first edition of which was published two years after the author's death, in 1690, and was quickly expanded. Our edition also includes Traité des orangers, de la culture des fleurs, de la culture des melons and L'Art de tailler les arbres fruitiers. The illustrations include a fold-out plan of the king's kitchen garden at Versailles, 11 hors-texte illustrations, 13 figures in the text and 10 headpieces, lettering and endpapers. A good copy in contemporary seeded calf.