AUDOT, L(ouis) E.   TRAITÉ DE LA COMPOSITION ET DE L'ORNEMENT DES JARDINS.   Avec Cent Soixante-huit Planches Représentant, En Plus De Six Cents Figures, Des Plans De Jardins, Des Fabriques Propres A Leur Décoration, Et Des Machines Pour Énlever Les Eaux.       Paris: Audot,   1859.          Last and most complete edition of this popular French pattern book for garden design, structures and ornament which passed through many revised and expanded editions. It first appeared in 1818 as a small manual with a text written by Guiol and was subsequently revised and enlarged by Pierre Boitard. The present edition, updated by Audot, with its several hundred illustrations and lengthy general text, offers an excellent overview of French garden design and practice at the middle of the nineteenth century. Sixth edition. (See Berlin Cat. 34845 for earlier editions)   Two volumes, oblong 4to (19 x 22 cm); color frontispiece + viii + 220 pp., viii pp. + 160 (ie. 168) plates.            Contemporary quarter leather with marbled boards; well preserved. $1,200.00

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