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Lot 66

VALLET (PIERRE)
Le jardin du du tres Chrestien Henry IV, Roy de France et de Navarre, FIRST EDITION, [Paris], 1608

4 December 2019, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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VALLET (PIERRE)

Le jardin du du tres Chrestien Henry IV, Roy de France et de Navarre, FIRST EDITION, etched architectural title-page (including portraits of Carolus Clusius and Matthias de L'Obel), 4 leaves of letterpress , etched portraits of Vallet and Jean Robin, 73 etched and engraved plates (unnumbered) after and by Vallet, English plant name neatly added within platemark to 6 plates (a further 10 in pencil), title just trimmed within fore-edge platemark not touching image, a few light spots but generally clean, strong impressions, modern morocco, covers with blind 3-line fillet border, gilt morocco spine label [Blunt, p.99; Cleveland Collections 154; Dunthorne 253; Hunt 187; Nissen BBI 2039; Pritzel 9671], folio (348 x 215mm.), [Paris], 1608

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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