BOTANICS] - Lot 128

BOTANICS] MIZAULD (Antoine)] De hortensium arborum insitione opusculum, Antonii Mizaldi Monluciani studio etdiligentia concinnatum. Eiusdem Dendranatome, hoc est partium corporis arborei explicatio breuis vbi de earundem nutritione, Paris (Lutetiae), Frédéric Morel (Federicum Morellum), 1560. An in-8 volume of 28 pages in full contemporary vellum. First edition of this little work on grafting plants and fruit trees, including a chapter on tree anatomy and nutrition. The author of this work, Antoine Mizaud (1510-1578), a French physician known for having been Queen Margot's astrologer, was responsible for numerous research studies and a number of horticultural treatises, in particular on the cultivation and care of fruit trees such as this one, as well as popular works on gardening, medicinal plants and popular pharmacy. Penmanship on title page. Binding in the process of detaching from the body of the book. Fresh interior.