QUINTINYE, Jean Baptiste de. - John EVELYN (translator). The Compleat Gardner; or, Directions for Cultivating and Right Ordering of Fruit-Gardens and Kitchen-Garden… to which is added His Treatise of Orange-Trees, with the Raising of Melons. London: Matthew Gillyflower and James Partridge, 1693. First English edition, folio (309 x 199mm.) Title in red and black, engraved portrait frontispiece of de Quintinye by Elder, 11 engraved plates, 2 folding, 11 engraved vignette illustrations. (Minor soiling to margins, name inscribed to title, insect damage from a*-H, initial blank loosening.) Contemporary calf, five raised bands to the spine (lacking the lettering piece to the spine, some loss to spine ends, rubbing to extremities). Note: irregular pagination, as usual, collates complete: n2, a*4, b4, b**1, c*4, [a]4, [b]3, B-O4, P-Q6, R-Z4, Aa4, Bb2, B-P4, Q2, T-Z4, Aa-Dd4, [a]2, A-K4. [KEYNES, 227]. Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional charge of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.