Vallet, Pierre (cont.) 
-- L© Jardin du roy tree chrestien Loys XIII, roy 
de France et de Navare dedie a la royne mer® de sa M't, 
Paris [1624] 18 p. 91 pi. F®. (Dept, Agr.; Am. 
Arb.; Brit. Mus.j Radcliffe Lib, Oxford) 
The Dept. Agr. copy from which this title is 
taken, has the MS. date 1625 on the title-page, 
but its dedication is dated Jan. 10, 1624, 
The number of plates varies in different ex¬ 
amples, Am.Arb. copy claims 91 plates (yrhich 
is the number given in both editions of Pritzel) 
besides "ports of Johannes Robinus and others," 
while the Dept. Agr. copy has but 81 plates and 
no portraits. It should also be noted that the 
18 pages of text in this edition do not include 
the descriptions by Jean Robin that were in the 
original, but are directions for coloring flowers, 
intended as an aid to the embroidei?,'^ but also of 
some value as indicating the color and markings 
of the flowers illustrated by Vallet. 
By a checking of the "Advertissement a ceux 
qui voudront peindre ou anlviminer" etc., 18 p, 
at end of the Dept. Agr. copy, it appears that 
the edition of 1625 [1624] should have a total 
of 95 plates, all that are included in the lat- 
errissues; and it may be assumed that all extra 
plates depicting American and other recently 
introduced plants date back to 1624, 
-Le jardin du roi tres-chrestien Louis XIII. 
Paris, 1658, 92 pi,? F“, (Bouchard-Huzard, p. 1045) 
No copy of this date has been located, but it 
is explicitly noted by both Seguier, p,168, and 
Haller, 1:598, The latter cites the 1st edition 
after "Burette," but had a copy of this one, for 
he says: "Tabulae 92, in exemplo meo vivis colo- 
ribus pictae, florum fere ex gente Liliacea" Ac. 
These plates, by the way, must have been painted 
by some amateur, as there were no colored copies 
issued originally. Neither Haller nor Seguier 
mentions the edition of 1624; but they give this 
as the only one bearing the name of Louis XIII. 
