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LE JARDIN DE FLORE
created in 1974 
was located in Paris
at 24 Place des Vosges

catalogue n° 1 septembre 1977 
catalogue n° 3 septembre 1979
"Le JARDIN DE FLORE is an ambitious endeavour to rethink and renew the publishing of rare and valuable books...
The first published books reveals three main purposes...". Foreword of the catalogue n°1
ANDROUET DU CERCEAU
Leçons
de perspective positive
60 copperplate engravings with a preface and 10 pages of text
Vues d'optiques 
Set of 22 round plates
including du Cerceau's titles

Paris,Mamart Patisson,1576 
Paris, Jardin de Flore, 1977
Jacques Androuet du Cerceau, architect of the King and of the duchess of Ferrare, made an important contribution to the art of perspective, which was then undergoing a complete change and formed the basis of architectural studies in both France and Italy. Considered as the greatest ornamentalist of the Renaissance,he is thought to have been one of the first to introduce copperplate engravings
ANTIQUARIE PROSPECTTICHE ROMANE COMPOSTE PER PROSPETTIVO MILANESE DIPINTORE
between 1499 and 1506, Milan
1978, Paris, Jardin de Flore

Sheets, in a blue satin publisher's case
"This booklet, true little masterpiece, extremly rare, assembles seven scripted pages and a frontispiece, the Geographic Surveyor, widely attributed to Leonardo da Vinci.
Jacques BESSON
Livre premier des instruments mathématiques et mécaniques
1569,Orléans
1978, Paris, JADF

60 etchings and 20 pages of text ​
The engravings by J. Androuet du Cerceau from J. Besson's drawings, 
represent the inventions - most of them were actually built - of the inventor and mathematician
J. ANDROUET DU CERCEAU
Bracelets
Agrafes
et Pendants d'oreille
XVIème century
197 , Paris, Jardin de Flore

Linen-faced dust jacket in publisher's slip cover ​
Designed and engraved by Jacques Androuet du Cerceau these 50 jewelry engravings were particularly interesting for Fernand Fouillon.
This aspect of the work of the celebrated Renaissance architect and ornamentalist is less well known than his treatises on perspective and architecture
René BOYVIN
Le Livre de Bijouterie
End of XVI century
1979, Paris, Jardin de Flore

20 plates in sheets, with a midnight-blue satin dust jacket inside a slip cover
The 55 drawerings coverong 20 plates are remarkable for their diversity and extreme audacity of inspiration, and astonishing virtuosity in their execution. The engraver from Angers (Loire Valley), René Boyvin, is more reknowned for his work in jewelry design.
Gilles L'EGARE
Livre de divers ouvrages de Bijouterie et de Joaillerie
XVIII century
197 , Paris, Jardin de Flore

Linen-faced dust jacket in publisher's slip cove​​
This collection has never been reissued, which accounts for its extreme rarity today. In republishing this series, le Jardin de Flore wanted to aim at bringing once again and to the public the work of this great creative artist who differs from du Cerceau and even more from Boyvin.
Jean-Jacques BOISSARD
Habitz de Nations Estrages
1581
197 , Paris, Jardin de Flore

186 engraved figures, each comprises three subjects ​
This book reveals to what extend clothes reflect the immanence or the evolution of costums in some countries. For example the Lady..
Peter BRUEGEL
Suite des Vaisseaux de Mer
1559-1565, Antverpia
197 , Paris, Jardin de Flore
This is a famous and an extremly rare collection of eleven engravings designed by Peter Brueghel and engraved by Frans Huys. Its documentary value is exceptional.

on pure-cloth laid paper 
made by hand 
by Richard de Bas Paper Mill 
CARMONTELLE
Jardin de Monceau
fin XVIIIème 
1978, Paris, Jardin de Flore
planches pleine page
The Castle of Monceau's english garden was one of the firts attempts to create such gardens in France
Giuseppe CASTIGLIONE
Palais, Pavillons et Jardins construits ... au Palais d'Eté... 
1783-1786
197 , Paris, Jardin de Flore

20 copperplates 
Mould-made pure rag vellum
Fernand Pouillon re-edited this extremly rare and wonderful collection (three exemplaries known only in the world) of engravings by Chinese artists, depicting the palaces, pavilions, gardens and ornamental lakes built or laid out for the Emperor K'ien Long by the Jesuits
Vincenzo Maria CORONELLI 
Cartes du Ciel et de la Terre
1693
197 , Paris, Jardin de Flore
planches pleine page

52 plates
maps of the Earth and the Heavens ​ 
V. Coronelli (Venice, 1650-1718) artist and cartografer, founder of the first geographical society, author and publisher of the first modern encyclopaedia arranged in alphabetical order, first became known in his native city. His fame outside Venice is mainly due to the famous "Globes de Marly"
Pascal COSTE
Monuments du Caire
designed from
1818 to 1826
1827, Paris, Firmin-Didot
1978, Paris, Jardin de Flore

102 plates
Colours applied by hand one at a time. Japanese vellum paper, especially made 
by Van Gelder of Holland 
Work showing elevations, sections, details and interiors of the main mosques, public buildings and private houses built by the various Islamic dynasties in Cairo, with explanatory and historical notes. The author was a French architect born in Marseille in 1789 fascinated by Arab art 
Henri-Louis 
DUHAMEL DU MONCEAU
L'art du potier de terre
18e century
197 , Paris, Jardin de Flore

17 plates 
It is not surprising that Fernand Pouillon was interested in this remarkable panorama of Parisian pottery in the 18th century
Albrecht DURER
Apocalypsis cum figuris
L'Apocalypse
1498, Nüremberg
1977, Paris, Jardin de Flore

16 plates
To restore the quality and freshness of the original engravings, the clarity of the whites and the incisive sharpness of the deep blacks, Fernand Pouillon had the sixteen plates engraved on wood.
Albrecht DURER
La Grande Passion
ou la vie de Jésus

1511, Nüremberg
1979, Paris, Jardin de Flore
12 plates
Passionate about Albrecht Dürer's work, Fernand Pouillon considered it essential to complete the Apocalypse edition with the facsimile edition.
Albrecht DURER
La Vie de la Vierge
1511, Nüremberg
1979, Paris, Jardin de Flore

20 plates
1504, the year in which Dürer was particularly interested in the problems of perspective is the date on the plate of Joachim and Anne with the golden door
Giacomo FRANCO
Habiti d'Huomeni et Donne Venetiane conla processione della Serenissime ...
1610-1614, A. Turini, Venise 
197, Paris, Jardin de Flor45

​45 plates
​250 numbered copies
New edition of one of the most beautiful, sparkling works ever inspired by Venice. The illuminated plates extol the magnificence of the city of the Doges during its golden age, as seen in its battles, festivities, regattas, public buildings and customs .
JANINET & DURAND 
Vues pittoresques
des principaux édifices
de Paris
1792, Paris, Esnaut et Rapilly
198 , Paris, Jardin de Flore

​plates
This small work of seventy-three views of Paris brings together all the buildings that "count" then in Paris and many of which will be destroyed by the urban layout of Baron Haussman
Georges Louis LE ROUGE
Détail de nouveaux jardins
à la mode. 
Jardins anglo-chinois.
Ier-XXe Cahiers
1776-1787, Paris, Le Rouge
1978, Paris, Jardin de Flore
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492 plates
250 numbered copies
This"...irreplaceable reference work and unique source of inspiration for landscape gardeners, architects and ecologists...is...moreA positive encyclopaedia, an irreplaceable reference book and an unique source of reference for gardeners, landscape gardeners, architects and ecologists by Georges Le Rouge, engineer, geographer and publisher at a crucial period of the history of the art of rhe garden.
L'HERBIER DU ROY
oeuvre gravée d'Abraham BOSSE, L. de CHATILLON, Nicolas ROBERT
fin XVIIIe siècle 
198 , Paris, Jardin de Flore
planches pleine page
Only a few plates on the 319 engraved by Abraham Bosse, engraver emeritus of the seventeenth century,.
Emile-Aubert LESSORE
et William WYLD
Voyage pittoresque
dans la régence d'Alger
A Pictorial Journey through the Algerian Regency 
1833, Paris
197 , Paris, Jardin de Flore
Although it appeared in 1833, this work was undertaken during the Regency in Algeria. It is one of the very rare iconografic accounts of the period of Algerian history preceding colonisation by the French. The Turks after three centuries of domination, had not modified the faces and customs of the country ..
LES OISEAUX DU NIL
ET DE LA SYRIE
1818-1828, Paris, Imprimerie Impériale, Imprimerie Royale
1978 , Paris, Jardin de Flore

14 engraved plates
44 full-size illustrations of birds 

250 numbered copies
New edition of one of the ten volumes of texts and twelve volumes of plates that comprised the first edition of DESCRIPTION OF EGYPT, a by-product of Napoleon's Egyptian campaign, published under the direction of M. Jomard. The illustrations were drawn and engraved by Messrs Barrabaud, Bouquet et Redouté
Luca PACIOLI
DIVINA PROPORTIONE
1509, Venise
197 , Paris, Jardin de Flore

62 pages of text
87 engravings
200 numbered copies
New edition of this book remarkable for the exceptional quality of the typography and for its illustrations. The woodcuts are haunted by the prestigious shadow of Leonardo da Vinci , who designed the splendid alphabet and who is said to have drawn with his own hand the 59 solid bodies and hollow polyhedra..
Jacques PERRET
Des Fortifications
et Artifices
D'architecture et de Perspectives
1601, Paris, Thomas de Leu
1978, Paris, Jardin de Flore

frontispiece, 12 pages of text and 22 plates (19 doubles)
250 numbered copies
Plates drawn by Jacques Perret and engraved by Thomas de Leu. Jacques Perret, an obscure savoyard gentleman, is in the tradition of the great humanists ans architects such as Alberti or Thomas More, who were obsessed by the idea of a perfect city wich they dreamed of and described.
Perret gives concrete form to the ideas of Averlino, know as le Filarete
Fernand POUILLON
Aix-en-Provence
1953, Paris, à compte d'auteur sous le titre Ordonnances
197 , Paris, Jardin de Flore

93 plates 
500 numbered copies
New edition of ORDONNANCES, with the addition of a new preface, a monograph and fifteen unpublished drawings. The plates represents the privates houses and historic buildings and gives the reader a better idea of the very substance of yesterday's city than would a visitor's guide. F Pouillon's text deals with the relationship of past architecture and town planning to those of today
Fernand POUILLON 
Abbaye de Cotignac

1977, Paris, Jardin de Flore

270 copies on paper from Hollande and 500 copies on Arches
Work illustrated with plans, facades and cups(cuttings) of the pilgrimage of saint-Joseph and the new abbey Benedictine, extension due to F. Pouillon. These drawings due too to the architect F. Pouillon is accompanied with texts of the author and introduced by the prioress...In-folio it includes a frontispiece, a title, 15 pages of text, 15 plates
Fernand POUILLON 
Globe terrestre contemporain
1985, Paris, Jardin de Flore

Vues pleine page
Specially designed by Fernand Pouillon for the french President of the Republique François Mitterrand, this globe reflects the frontiers of the world as they were in 1985. It becomes the presidential gift of the french president
Fernand POUILLON
Journal du maitre d'oeuvre Guillaume Balz,
du cinq mars
au cinq décembre 1161
à l'abbaye du Thoronet
1978, Paris, Jardin de Flore

pure rag laid paper specially made by hand 
150 numbered copies
First illustrated edition of this work of the architect F. Pouillon.It enjoyed worldwide success when first published, and is now considered as the classic record of the art of the builder monks of the middle age.The illustrations were drawn and engraved by the author. The capital letters for the chapter headings are after charactes by Geoffroy Tory...(continued)The title "Les pierres sauvages", chosen by Paul Flamand, is out of the question, and Fernand Pouillon takes up the title he always wanted for.
SBONSKY DE PASSEBON Henri
Plan de plusieurs batimens de mer avec leurs proportions
1693
197 , Paris, Jardin de Flore

17 plates
200 numbered copies
WHenri Sbonski de Passebon is the father and undisputed master of marine artistry. Although admired by his contemporaries, he has been in almost total oblivion for two centuries. These superbly drawn and engraved ships were for the first time shown to scale and in their proper setting
Sebastiano SERLIO 
Troisième Livre d'Architecture 
Third, Sixth, Seventh and Eight Books of Architecture
prepared but never published 

Engravings by Henri Renaud and Patrick Lubin
There was no French translation of the Seventh Book and F. Pouillon was on the point to fill this gap. And the manuscripts of the Sixth and Eight Books, which remained unpublished, has been engraved for the first time since they were written and drawn. Unfortunately money troubles did not allow the Jardin de Flore to publish them.
Stefano SCOLARI
Venetia
Venise
1595-1600, Venise
1978, Paris, Jardin de Flore

7 plates
200 numbered copies
The new edition of this collection comprises seven plates, namely: two maps of the Venice area, one of the city itself and five engravings representing its daily life and historic buildings. Stefano Mezzo Scolari, mainly known as a cartographer, is a venetian engraver and printer of the late 16e century
Claude-Joseph VERNET
Les Ports de France
1760, Paris
1978 , Paris, Jardin de Flore
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22 plates (16 engravings and 6 first-state etchings)
400 copies
The plates are by Cochin and Le Bas after the original oil paintings by C.J. Vernet. Le Jardin de Flore has brought out a new complete edition of this remarkable series, of which only a few plates have been regularly republished
Jean PELERIN, dit VIATOR
De Artificiali Perspectiva
1505, Toul, Jacobi
197 , Paris, Jardin de Flore

Pure rag laid paper specially made by Barcham Green and Richard de Bas 
150 numbered copies, the first 5 copies on parchmen
De Artificiali Perspectiva is considered as one of the ten most perfect and rarest books of the XVth ansd XVIth centuries. Jardin de Flore published the first and also the second edition, different from the first in that the tillustrations were re-engraved. It includes 13 further plates and is otherwise composed. And Jardin de Flore added the last plate of the third edition "La Nef des Sages".
Wéi Dé WANG
Tong Ren Shu Xue Zhen Jiu Tu Jing
ou traité des points d'acupuncture et de moxibustion représentés sur la statuette
de bronze
1026, Chine

152 pages of text and 21 figures 
in fact never publised ​
This treatise by Wand Wei De Wang deserved to be brought to light at last, because it is both an artistic and a scientific work, and one of capital value for learning about acupuncture, the thousand-year-old treatment whose topical interest is greater than ever. So wrote Le Jardin de Flore but unfortunately never published the treatise till the death of F. Pouillon happened
Giuseppe ZOCCHI
Vedute di Firenza 
24 gravures de Florence
1754, Florence, G. Bouchard
198 , Paris, Jardin de Flore

​24 plates
The first eight plates, panoramic views of Florence from different angles, allows us to judge with what sense of continuity the city balanced the austere majesty of the Middle Ages and the elegant classicism of the Renaissance. The following plates shows the principal edifices and the smallest details of their facades
List of the works which Fernand Pouillon wished to publish but did not yet made

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