‎GROEN, JAN VAN DER.‎
‎Le Jardinier du Pays-Bas, ou sont décrites toutes sortes de belles Maisons de plaisance & de Campagne, & comment on les peut planter, fermer, & embellier de plusieurs Herbes, Fleurs, & Arbres rares...Enrichie de plusieurs belles igures...(Part I) - ... - [FIRST FRENCH TRANSLATION OF THIS LANDMARK WORK ON GARDENING]‎

‎Bruxelles, Philippe Vleugart, 1672. 4to. Bound in hcalf (around 1850), raised bands, gilt spine. Having 5 title-pages. Corners of title-pages neatly restored. Light foxing to margins of the first 5 leaves. (26), 71, (3) 75-137,(2):(139-)140-156 (157-58) 159-180, (2) pp. The first and second part with 13 full-page woodcut illustrations, third and fourth with 47 full-page and some half-page woodcut illustrations, also small textillustrations. 4 of the title-pages with large woodcuts. In all, ca. 200 splendid woodcut illustrations.‎

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‎First French translation of Groen’s seminal work in the history of European garden art and horticulture. Its author, Jan van der Groen, served as head gardener to the House of Orange at The Hague and at Huis Honselaarsdijk and was one of the very few professional gardeners of the seventeenth century to record his work in print. The present work was instrumental in shaping local adaptations of the Dutch garden style, and the present French translation ranks among the most important translations, inspiring people such as Dezallier d’Argenville and other theorists of the jardin régulier. Copies were also known to have circulated in Germany and Scandinavia, shaping local adaptations of the Dutch style here as well. “Jan van der Groen, noted for his 1669 gardener’s handbook Den Nederlandtsen Hovenier, was a Hague florist and gardener to the Prince of Orange. (…) Jan grew up in The Hague and married into a family of stadholder gardeners. In the clientelistic culture of the seventeenth century he, like the other gardeners to the prince, owed his appointment as head gardener of the gardens ‘op de Cingel’ in 1662 to his and his wife’s families’ service to the court. The modest gardens ‘op de Cingel’ were located next to the Binnenhof in The Hague, on the site of Prince Maurits’s former Buitenhoftuin. Van der Groen was tasked with managing these gardens and laying them out with parterres and a planting of fruit and citrus trees, to a design by the architect Pieter Post. It was in his gardener’s dwelling on the Singel, that Van der Groen wrote his famous reference work. Following its publication, Van der Groen was transferred in 1670 to the large and prestigious gardens of Huis Honselaarsdijk, where his task was largely supervisory.” (Berkhout, Jan van der Groen).Hunt Cat. No 317 (the Dutch version of 1670 in three parts).‎