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An attractive first edition of Duhamel's rare agricultural treatise, Traite de la conservation des grains, in a contemporary sprinkled calf binding.
An attractive first edition of Duhamel's rare agricultural treatise, Traite de la conservation des grains, in a contemporary sprinkled calf binding.
An attractive first edition of Duhamel's rare agricultural treatise, Traite de la conservation des grains, in a contemporary sprinkled calf binding.

DUHAMEL DU MONCEAU, Henri-Louis.

Traité de la conservation des grains, et en particulier du froment.

Paris, Hippolyte-Louis Guérin & Louis-François Delatour, 1753.

£175.00
£175.00

Traité de la conservation des grains,

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An attractive first edition of this rare agricultural treatise by the French naturalist Henry-Louis Duhamel du Monceau (1700-1782) on the preservation of grain. Illustrated with 12 folding engraved plates.

First edition; 8vo (17 x 10.5 cm); 12 folding copper-engraved plates, some creasing beyond the folds, paper flaw to one leaf, small stain to lower for-edge corner throughout, marbled endpapers; contemporary sprinkled calf, spine gilt compartments within raised bands, corners rubbed, minor wear to extremities, foot of spine chipped; xxviii, 294, [2]pp.

Stock code 107344

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An attractive first edition of Duhamel's rare agricultural treatise, Traite de la conservation des grains, in a contemporary sprinkled calf binding.

Traité de la conservation des grains,

£175.00
£175.00

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