A practical treatise of husbandry: . wherein are contained, many useful and valuable experiments and observations in the new husbandry, collected during a series of years, by the celebrated M. Duhamel du Monceau, ... Also, the most approved practice of the best English farmers, ... With copper-plates ...
Henri Louis Duhamel du Monceau (1700-1782)
Category
Books
Date
1759
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Chirk Castle, Wrexham
NT 3039127
Summary
Bibliographic description
xxiv,491,[9]p., [7] leaves of plates . ill.. . 4to.. Previous shelfmark: H.9.2. Not identified in 1796 inventory. Christies, 21 June, lot 596.. Provenance: Bookplate: Chirk Castle R. E. Myddelton [i.e. Robert Edward Myddelton (1866-1949)]; crest, signed and dated: W.P.B. 1914. Armorial Chippendale bookplate on title page verso: 'Col. Willm. Tayler'.. Binding: Eighteenth-century sprinkled calf binding; double gilt fillet border; blind roll on board edges; gilt fillets on spine.
Makers and roles
Henri Louis Duhamel du Monceau (1700-1782) John Mills (d.1784?)