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One of the finest Dutch books on gardening and garden design with 190 handcoloured plates
Magazijn van tuin-sieraden; of verzameling van modellen van aanleg en sieraad, voor groote en kleine lust-hoven, voornamelijk van derzulke die, met weinig kosten te maken zijn.
Zaltbommel, Johannes Noman en Zoon, [1834]. Nieuwe uitgave [=3rd edition]. Groot 4to (278 x 205 mm). [II], IV, 100 pages.
With an engraved title page with a hand coloured vignette and 190 hand coloured plates of gardens, garden houses, bridges, artificial ruins and garden furniture.
Modern leather binding. On the covers a blind tooled border with fleurons on the corners. Spine with 5 raised bands, title tooled in gold and blind fleurons. Third edition of one of the main sources for English gardens and neo gothic and Chinoiserie garden architecture in the Netherlands. This copy without the often lacking 8-page "Generaal register van de tuinsieraden"
The book was first published by J. Allart in Amsterdam in 24 instalments between 1802 and 1809, a second edition appeared in 1819 by Jacobus de Ruyter. The third edition was announced in 1831, and published between 1832 and 1834. In all editions the plates are the same. Van Laar used J. G. Grohmann?s Ideenmagazin fur Liebhaber von Garten (Leipzig1796) as a source, as well as John Plaw?s English modelbook Ferme orne?e; or rural improvements (London, 1795), but most is of his own invention.
-Provenance: Verso title page an illegible round collector's stamp.
-Literature: Landwehr, Dutch books with coloured plates, 102; Holwerda, ?Uitgaven en datering van Magazijn van tuin-sieraaden?, in: Cascade: bulletin voor tuinhistorie, 19 (2010), p. 36-48; M. van den Broek & W. Meulekamp, ?Gijsbert van Laar (1767?1829), tuinarchitect: het magazijn van tuin-sieraden, de Nederlandse landschapstuin en de Vanlaarologie?, in: Cascade, bulletin voor tuinhistorie XII (2003), p. 5-47; Springer, p. 68.
-Condition: Dedication leaf inner and lower margin restored with loss of some letters; Some plates cut short; page 27 lower margin restored with loss of some text lines; Without the 8-page "Generaal register van de tuinsieraden"; Slightly browned.
With an engraved title page with a hand coloured vignette and 190 hand coloured plates of gardens, garden houses, bridges, artificial ruins and garden furniture.
Modern leather binding. On the covers a blind tooled border with fleurons on the corners. Spine with 5 raised bands, title tooled in gold and blind fleurons. Third edition of one of the main sources for English gardens and neo gothic and Chinoiserie garden architecture in the Netherlands. This copy without the often lacking 8-page "Generaal register van de tuinsieraden"
The book was first published by J. Allart in Amsterdam in 24 instalments between 1802 and 1809, a second edition appeared in 1819 by Jacobus de Ruyter. The third edition was announced in 1831, and published between 1832 and 1834. In all editions the plates are the same. Van Laar used J. G. Grohmann?s Ideenmagazin fur Liebhaber von Garten (Leipzig1796) as a source, as well as John Plaw?s English modelbook Ferme orne?e; or rural improvements (London, 1795), but most is of his own invention.
-Provenance: Verso title page an illegible round collector's stamp.
-Literature: Landwehr, Dutch books with coloured plates, 102; Holwerda, ?Uitgaven en datering van Magazijn van tuin-sieraaden?, in: Cascade: bulletin voor tuinhistorie, 19 (2010), p. 36-48; M. van den Broek & W. Meulekamp, ?Gijsbert van Laar (1767?1829), tuinarchitect: het magazijn van tuin-sieraden, de Nederlandse landschapstuin en de Vanlaarologie?, in: Cascade, bulletin voor tuinhistorie XII (2003), p. 5-47; Springer, p. 68.
-Condition: Dedication leaf inner and lower margin restored with loss of some letters; Some plates cut short; page 27 lower margin restored with loss of some text lines; Without the 8-page "Generaal register van de tuinsieraden"; Slightly browned.
€ 1.450
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