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[Vautier, Fran 9 ois] (oont#) 
-- Paris, 1671• (Bib. Hat. Paris) 
Under Arnauld d’Andilly, Robert, supposed au¬ 
thor of "La mani^re de cultiver les arbres frui- 
tiers, par le sieur Le Gendre," Cat. Bib. Nat. 4: 
372, lists an edition of that work; "Ensemble 1’ 
Instruction pour les arbres fruitiers, par M. R. 
T, P, D, S. M. (R. Triquet, prieur de St.-Mars.) 
Paris, Mille de Beaujeu, 1671." This must be the 
edition mentioned by M. Gibault, Jour. Soc. Nat. 
Hort. France (4) 6:728 (1905), as: "une contrefa- 
5 on (Paris, 1672, chez de Beaujeu) sign^e M.R.T. 
P.D.S.M. qui sont les initiales de Renb Triquel." 
Gibault*s remark suggests that this was an issue 
of the book of Le Gendre edited by Triquel, but 
in fact it seems to be merely an edition to which 
the book attributed to Triquel was appended. This 
is partially supported by a copy in Cat. Bib* De- 
caisne (1883), no.393, dated 1671, but lacking a 
title-page. 
—Par M.R.T.P.D.S.M. [Triquel] (in Traitez de 
jardinage divisez en deux tomes. Paris, 1673. Tome 1.) 
(Brit. Mus.) 
—— Derniere bd., reveu^ & corrigbe par I'autheur. 
Paris, Charles de Sercy, 1676. 101 p. (Dept. Agr.j 
Brit. Mus.) 
Brit. Mus. enters under title; Dept. Agr. un¬ 
der Vautier. This is the issue that is listed 
by Seguier, p.399, and Haller, 1:593, xmder "N. 
Vautier," altho Haller, 1:489, gives it also un¬ 
der the initials "M.R.T.P.D.S.M." Seguier, l.o., 
gives as publisher Prudhomme, evidently an error, 
as Prudhomme did not take over Sercy’s business 
till about the end of the century. But Seguier’s 
entry of this edition under Vautier is of further 
interest because it is followed by another under 
the same author of a "Traite de la culture des 
orangers, citronniers, grenadiers, Sc oliviers," 
also published Paris, 1676, by Charles de Sercy. 
This tract, which it has hitherto been impossible 
to connect with any other work, seems to consist 
of the additions supplied in the 3d ed. of the 
"Instruction" published by Bertier in 1658, euad 
suggests that the latter may have been the basis 
of Sercy’s reprint in 1676. Seguier, recognizing 
