Albert Maumené's Les Arbres Nains Japonais
(Dwarf Japanese Trees) (1902)

Le travail le plus tôt connu dans une langue européenne entièrement au sujet du bonsai.

The earliest known work entirely on the subject of bonsai in a European language.
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Couverture / Front Cover
Couverture arrière / Back Cover
La couverture a une couleur de fond comme suit: commençant au bord supérieur, à la violette marron ou rouge profonde ; commençant au rebord inférieur, un vert-foncé mat moyen .  Tous les deux couleurs se fanent alors au blanc où elles se réunissent au centre de la couverture.  Les dimensions du livre (clôturées) sont de 18 cm H X 12 cm L. 

The cover has a background color as follows: starting at the top edge, deep maroon or red violet ; starting at the bottom edge, a medium dull dark green . Both of these colors then fade to white where they meet at the center of the cover.  The book's dimensions (closed) are 18 cm H x 12 cm W.


 
Le manuscrit vu était un prêt interbibliothèque du jardin botanique de New York.  Il a été soigneusement photocopié à la bibliothèque publique de Phoenix. 

The manuscript seen was an Inter-Library Loan from the New York Botanical Garden.
It was carefully photo-copied at the Phoenix Public Library.


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Three French reviews of the book can be found in Journal de la Société nationale d'horticulture de France, Série IV. T III, 10 Février 1902, pg. 657,
in Revue de l'horticulture belge et étrangére, Tome XXVIII, pg. 269,
and in La Revue scientifique (Revue Rose), Tome XVIII, N. 22, 29 Novembre 1902, pp. 698-699.

A slightly longer review reproducing two of the pictures from Maumené is by M. Virgile Brandicourt in Bulletin de la Société D'Horticulture de Picardie, Vol. 18, 9 Novembre, 1902, pp. 599-603.

Two other brief reviews, of sorts, of this book's subject can be found in La Revue blanche, Tome 28, pg. 462
and in Cosmos: revue des sciences et de leurs applications, Tome XLVIII, No. 939, 24 Janvier 1903, pg. 124.


Note: Per the references in Peter Del Tredici's article "From Temple to Terrace, The Remarkable Journey of the Oldest Bonsai in America" (Arnold Arboretum's Arnoldia 64/2-3, 2006) pg. 30, "An English translation of [Maumenés] work was published in 1908 in the Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society 33(1): 53-70."

On Feb. 9, 2009 our researches found a digitalized version of this text which we have now linked here.  Note that the original author's name is given as "Maumerné."  We have not yet done a detailed comparison, but we do know that there are several interesting new facts and additional pictures in the English version which is NOT a mere translation.

And now on Nov. 10, 2010 we've discovered a digitized version of the original manuscript, here.

Français / French

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