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VALLET (PIERRE) Le jardin du du tres Chrestien Henry IV, Roy de France et de Navarre, FIRST EDITION, [Paris], 1608
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VALLET (PIERRE)
Footnotes
FIRST EDITITION OF "THE FIRST IMPORTANT FLORILEGIUM,... a work of great beauty" (Blunt). Dedicated to Marie de Medici, consort of Henry IV, who "set the fashion, soon followed by the ladies of the court, for embroidery with floral designs" (ibid.), Vallet's work was at least partially intended to serve as a pattern-book for this purpose, but the plates were however executed with great botanical accuracy. The plants which Vallet depicted were cultivated by Jean Robin, director of the royal gardens at the Louvre Palace, and include several exotic flowers he introduced from Spain and the islands of the coast of Guinea.
Provenance: "From the Roden Library, bought at Hodgkins in the 19 sixties", pencil note inside upper cover.





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