



D'ARDÈNE'S TRAITÉ DES RENONCULES (BUTTERCUPS), FIRST EDITION 1746.
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(ARDÈNE, JEAN PAUL DE ROME de). Traité des renoncules, dans lequel outre ce qui concerne ces fleurs, on trouvera des observations physiques, et plusieurs remarques utiles, soit pour l'agriculture, soit por le jardinage. Paris, chez Ph. N. Lottin et Augustin-Martin Lottin, Fils, 1746.
8:o (about 195x120 mm.). (10, last blank), 1-279, (1 blank), (3), (1 blank) pp. Engraved frontispiece, 1 engraved vignette, 6 engraved plates (4 folding, all, somewhat worn in the foldings, minor foxing).
Worn contemporary brown mottled calf, faded richly gilt spine, small damage at head, red edges. Minor foxing. Stamp on title "Domus Lugdunensis Soc. Jesu". First edition.
Ref. Hunt 526.
Around the middle of the eighteenth century the French priest and botanist Jean Paul de Rome d'Ardène (1689-1789) resigned his post as Supérieur of the Collège de Marseille and retired to the Château d'Ardène in the diocese of Sisteron, where he established a garden and devoted himself to botany. He wrote a series of treatises, each one dedicated to the cultivation of a particular flower prized by the botanists, floriculturists and connoisseurs of the period. The treatise on the ranunculus, published at Paris in 1746, was the first, to be followed by others on the hyacinth 1759, the tulip 1760 and the carnation 1762, all published at Avignon. Traité des renoncules opens with a fine etched title page designed by Nicolas Le Sueur and engraved by Benoît Audran the younger, both of whom were members of celebrated artistic families.
Provenance: Olle Wallin (1934-2021), economist who began his professional career working for the Swedish commercial bank Svenska Handelsbanken, after which he was employed by the construction company Beijers, working under Anders Wall. His interest in books and nature was inspired by his parents, both avid book collectors and interested in natural history. Wallin began collecting seriously after moving to Stockholm in the 1970's, and frequently visited the many antiquarian book shops as well as attended the auctions. His line of work also required extensive travel, foremost to the European continent and the US, and he usually took the opportunity to combine the business trips with visits to leading antiquarian book sellers and auction houses. Many of the more important and valuable works in his collection were acquired on those occasions.
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