Beheer

LOT 550
€70,00 - €140,00

Two French works: (1) Loisel (Fr.-E.). Traité complet de la culture naturelle

et artificielle de l'asperge, ou Exposé pratique et raisonné de tout ce qu'il est utile de savoir dans ce genre de culture. Paris, printed by Guiraudet and Jouaust for H. Cousin, 1846, (2),120,(1) p., cont. hcalf w. gilt spine. Foxed/ browned, otherwise fine. Very rare first edition of this sm. handbook on the cultivation of asparagus, that went through 11 editions up to 1932. (2) (J. de Combles). Traité de la culture des pêchers. Deuxième edition, revûe, corrigée & augmentée. Paris, Delaguette/ Le Prieur, 1750, XVI,198,(2) p., cont. speckled calf w. gilt spine. Sl. offsetting from turn-ins, covers waterst. and a bit worn along extremities. Good copy, w. 19th cent. engr. armorial bookplate of the Grille family (Arles) w. device "Nitimur in vetitum" (we strive for the forbidden), and bookplate "Floralies Lille 1952" on upper pastedown. Oberlé, Fastes, 621: "C'est la première monographie francaise du pêcher avec toutes les informations nécessaires à sa culture". Detailed handbook on the cultivation of peaches, first published in 1745. An English translation appeared in 1768.

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