MOLLET, André. Le jardin de plaisir, contenant plusieurs desseins de jardinage tant parterres en broderie, compartiments de gazon, que bosquets, & autres. Stockholm: Henry Kayser, 1651. 8° (389 x 243mm). Engraved portrait of the author's father by Lasine, 30 engraved plates, all but one double page and/or folding, title within wide decorated woodcut border. (Small repairs to foremargin of title, a few plates lightly shaved.) 19th-century vellum.

MOLLET, André. Le jardin de plaisir, contenant plusieurs desseins de jardinage tant parterres en broderie, compartiments de gazon, que bosquets, & autres. Stockholm: Henry Kayser, 1651. 8° (389 x 243mm). Engraved portrait of the author's father by Lasine, 30 engraved plates, all but one double page and/or folding, title within wide decorated woodcut border. (Small repairs to foremargin of title, a few plates lightly shaved.) 19th-century vellum.

FIRST EDITION of Mollet's designs for parterres and decoration in the royal gardens of Stockholm by the Master of Gardens to Queen Cristina.