DAHURON, René.

Tratttato[!] del Tagliar gl'Alberi da Frutto con la Maniera di ben Allevarli, tradotto dal Francese, ...[Venice?], [Girolamo Albrizzi?], [1698?]. Folio. Italian translation of a 1696 French treatise on pruning and grafting the limbs of fruit trees, with a drop-title on the first page, 12 numbered illustrations printed from 3 full-page copperplates, and a notice of another book on the last page. With 1 woodcut decorative initial in the treatise and another in the notice. The whole is extracted from an unidentified edition, perhaps the proceedings of an Italian scholarly society. Modern pink ...

      pp. 261-280. Cf. Cat. Arnold Arboretum I, p. 183 (1704 Il Gardiniero Francese); Hunt 395 & 455 (1696 French ed. & 1723 Il Giardiniero Francese); Ist. Cent. Cat. Unico (1704 Il Giardiniero Francese); Karlsruher Virt. Kat. (other eds.); OCLC WorldCat (1698 Il Giardiniero Francese); not in BMC STC Italian; Kew Gardens OPAC; for Dahuron: NBG XII, col. 787.An Italian translation of a French treatise on the pruning and grafting of the limbs of fruit trees, first published as Nouveau Traité de la Taille des Arbres Fruitiers (Paris, 1696, 12mo, 153 pp.) with the twelve illustrations printed from woodcuts. For the present edition the twelve illustrations were engraved on three copperplates. The Hunt Library catalogue notes that the first French edition is "a rare little work, not listed in any of the larger botanical collections so far as we can find," and the present Italian translation appears to be even rarer.Dahuron was gardener to Georg Wilhelm, Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg at Celle from 1690 to 1701 and then to Wilhelm I, King of Prussia at Potsdam. The present Italian translation appeared in 1698 together with an Italian Compendio of Jean de la Quintinye, Instruction pour les Jardins (Paris 1690) as Il Giardiniero Francese, overo Trattato del Tagliare gl'Alberi da Frutto con la Maniera di ben Allevarli (Venice, Girolamo Albrizzi, 1698, 4to?, 55 pp.: we have located only two copies). The present edition seems to have been published at about the same time, but as the last(?) treatise in a 280-page folio. The treatise collates 2mo: 2H4 2I6 = 10 ll., with a notice on fol. 2I6v of Antonio Maria Salvini, Discorsi Accademici ... (Florence, Giuseppe Manni, 1695): the notice mentions the death of Francesco Redi (1626-1697). The present edition of the treatise therefore seems likely to have been published in 1698, perhaps in the proceedings of one of the Florentine scholarly societies, but we have found no publication in which it seems to fit. The paper bears no discernable watermark.In very good condition and with generous margins, with only some minor water stains at the foot, not approaching the text or illustrations. An extremely rare Italian translation of an early treatise on the grafting of fruit trees.