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
Ham House, Surrey
NT 3039129
Summary
Bibliographic description
xxiv,491,[9]p., [7] leaves of plates . ill.. . 4to.. Not indigenous.. Provenance: Eighteenth-century inscription on pastedown: W. Bagot [i.e. William, 1st Baron Bagot (1728-1798) of Blithfield, Staffordshire]. manuscript pressmark in his hand: L.3.-12. Bequeathed to the National Trust by Norman Norris (1917-1991). Binding: Eighteenth-century full calf over boards; double gilt fillet; blind armorial centrepiece stamps of the Bagot family, with baron's coronet; red spine label with title "Duhamel's Husbandry"; sewn on five raised bands.
Makers and roles
Henri Louis Duhamel du Monceau (1700-1782) John Mills (d.1784?)