QUINTINIE (Jean de la). INSTRUCTION POUR LES JARDINS FRUITIERS ET POTAGERS, avec un traité des orangers et des réflexions sur l'agriculture. Paris, Foucault, 1716. 2 volumes in-4° brown calf, spine ribbed and decorated (contemporary binding). Jean-Baptiste de La Quintinie created Louis XIV's kitchen garden at Versailles and his treatise, first published in 1690, contains his observations and experiments on how to grow crops in all seasons. New edition illustrated with 13 plates out of text, including two fold-outs, beautiful pictorial bands, vignettes and drawings in the text. Binding restored, several leaves and plates browned, stains on last leaves of volume 2.