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17661186811766 in-folio [A Paris, chez SAILLANT & NYON, DESAINT,] imprimerie L. F. DELATOUR, 1766, 1 volume in-folio de 285x430 mm environ, (1) f., page de titre, 56 pages, complet des 4 planches in-fine. Demi-basane havane postérieure, dos long portant titres et ex libris dorés, tranches mouchetées, gardes blanches. Cuir épidermé, étiquette papier sur le dos, des rousseurs, sinon bon état général.
176115230Paris:: Desaint & Saillant 1761-1762. modern morocco-backed marbled boards; vellum tips. Marginal dampstain at the fore-edge of one plate not affecting image; otherwise very fine. Folio. With 5 fine engraved plates. Desaint & Saillant, hardcover
177578900No place Yverdon: No ed. De Félice c. 1775. Large 4to 27x21 cm. Modern interim-wrappers.Uncut. 8 leaves. The XIIth part of the volume about the 'marine' from the 'Encyclopédie' with sub-title and 7 engraved plates sub-title and plates soiled and with marginal waterstain infecting the title and the plates. - Verso sub-title explanation of the seven plates: "Manière de connoître si l'on est au vent" "L'armée marchant sur 3 colonnes" etc. - This section complete No ed. (De Félice) unknown
1759ST15736eLondon: Printed for J. Whiston and B. White 1759. First Edition in English. 268 x 210 mm. 10 1/2 x 8 1/4". xxiv 491 9 pp. the last ads. Translated and edited by John Mills. <br/> Contemporary sprinkled calf raised bands rebacked with brown morocco original tan morocco title label restorations to corners. With a folding diagram for barley planting and six copper engravings of farm equipment ploughs seed drills etc. four of them folding. Front pastedown with armorial bookplate of Sir George Shuckburgh Bart. and ex-libris of Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt. Fussell II 48-49; Hunt 564 this copy. ◆Extremities a bit rubbed corners bumped but A FINE COPY INTERNALLY quite clean fresh and wide margined in a solid serviceable binding.<br/> <br/> This is the Hunt copy of an influential work by the French polymath whom Raphael calls "one of the outstanding botanists of the 18th century" in the fields of plant physiology and agriculture. A physician naval engineer and botanist Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau 1700-82 gave up on formal university training to take lodgings near the Botanical Gardens where he pursued his own plan of learning from the director and from other distinguished persons who gathered there. After inheriting his father's estate he set up a model farm on the property to test various theories and methods of agriculture. According to Fussell Duhamel was a proponent of Jethro Tull's "drill husbandry" method of cultivating seeds planted in rows by machine the technique that formed the basis of modern agricultural practice. "He carried out extensive and probably costly experiments and demonstrated the financial advantages and increased physical volume of yield the system provided. This book no doubt played a large part in stimulating interest in the drill husbandry." Hunt notes that the present work was "apparently collected from several publications by Duhamel . . . with the addition of observations and experiments by other French and English writers" by translator and editor John Mills ca. 1717 - ca. 1794. The present item was once owned by one of the greatest botanical book collectors of modern times Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt 1882-1963. According to the Hunt Institute website "at the age of 15 Rachel received her first rare book Leonard Meager's 'The English Gardener' 1670 from a family member. Given her interest in plants gardens books and history this book planted the seed! for a lifelong appreciation of reading and collecting books about botany gardens and other plant-related topics." In addition to assembling an outstanding book collection Hunt was a respected bookbinder who studied with Cobden-Sanderson's pupil Euphemia Bakewell and operated the Lehcar Rachel spelled backwards Bindery out of her family home. She was a founding member of the Hroswitha Club for women bibliophiles which has since merged with the formerly all-male Grolier Club. Another previous owner Sir George Shuckburgh sixth baronet 1751-1804 was a prominent mathematician who was awarded the Royal Society's Copley Medal for his work to establish the standard length of a yard. Printed for J. Whiston and B. White unknown
178060161Paris, Veuve Desaint, 1780. 4to. In fine contemporary motted full calf with five raised bands and gilt lettering and ornamentation to spine. A bit of wear to extremities, mainly to lower part of hindges, otherwise a very fine and clean copy. LXXXII, 420, (2) pp. + 16 folded plates.
18628A Amsterdam, chez J. Schreuder, et Pierre Mortier, je jeune, 1759, 1 demi veau, dos à nerfs, orné, tranches rouge. Coiffes et coins émoussés. 1 volume in-8, titre en 2 couleurs (belle vignette gravée), 1 feuillet de privilège, 4 feuillets de table, 292 et 92 pages + 5 planches dépliantes gravées, dont 1 dessinée et gravée par De Yries ;
18646A Amsterdam, chez Pierre Mortier, 1738, 1 demi basane, dos à nerfs, mors fendus sur quelques centimètres ; 1 volume in-8, gravure en frontispice, titre en 2 couleurs, 6 feuillets non chiffrés, 156 et 295 pages, 12 planches dépliantes gravées, figures dans le texte ;
