DUHAMEL DU MONCEAUBiblio.com
Duhamel du Monceau, Henri-LouisBiblio.com
A Practical Treatise Of Husbandry: Wherein are contained many Useful and Valuable Experiments and Observations In The New Husbandry .; Also The most approved Practice of the best English Farmers in the Old Method of Husbandry
176216563London: C. Hitch and L. Hawes et al. 1762. Second edition corrected and improved. leather_bound. Contemporary full brown calf rebacked in antique style. Near fine. 489 pages 4B4-Rrr4 25 1/2 x 21 cm.Six copperplate engravings 4 folding and one folding table. A French botanist and engineer Duhamel was probably the first to distinguish clearly between alkalis potash and soda. His continuing energy in experiments in vegetable physiology gained him admission to the Academy in 1728. This work contains translations by John Mills of his "Traite de la Culture des Terres" as well as contributions by others. Index. KRESS 6014. Bright clean copy title page printed in red and black light age-toning raised bands red leather spine label printed in gilt ownership inscription in contemporary hand. C. Hitch and L. Hawes, et al. unknown
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