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Traité du iardinage selon les raisons de la nature et de l'art : divisé en trois livres : ensemble diuers desseins de parterres, pelouzes, bosquets & autres ornemens seruans à l'embellissement des iardins

Boyceau, Jacques, sieur de la Barauderie · 1638 · A Paris : Chez Michel Vanlochom ... · 31 pictures

A 1638 French gardening treatise by Jacques Boyceau, sieur de la Barauderie, published in Paris by Michel Vanlochom for garden designers and patrons. Its plates are engraved parterre and ornamental panel designs, with dense scrolling foliage, acanthus-like tendrils, and symmetrical framed compartments that suggest strong ornamental pattern-making for graphic borders, panels, and wrought-iron motifs.

Formal gardens -- Design -- Early works to 1800 · Gardens, Baroque -- France -- Early works to 1800 · Gardening -- France -- Early works to 1800

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