Le iardin du roy très chrestien Henry IV roy de France et de Navare : dédié à la royne

Vallet, Pierre, active 1600, Robin, Jean, 1550-1629, Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) · 1608 · [Paris] : [s.n.], 1608. · 77 pictures

Le iardin du roy is a botanical book of flower plates published in Paris in 1608 by Pierre Vallet with text by Jean Robin, dedicated to the queen of Henry IV of France. Its engraved plates show plants with exact stems, bulbs and blooms, useful to designers seeking early-modern botanical line drawing with clear labelling and tidy leaf structure.

Botany · France · Illustrated works · Paris · Pictorial works · Pre-Linnean works

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