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
Lacock, Wiltshire
NT 3039130
Summary
Bibliographic description
xxiv, 491, [9] p., [1], VI leaves of plates ([5] folded) : ill. ; 4to. Provenance: eighteenth century manuscript inscription "John Talbot", i.e. John Talbot, 1717?-1778, on title page. Provenance: eighteenth century manuscript inscription "Davenport Talbot ad Laycock Wilts", i.e. William Davenport Talbot, 1764-1800, on recto of first free end-paper. Binding: eighteenth century gilt tooled sprinkled calf; decorative tooling on edges of boards; gilt tooling and gilt tooled title "Duhamel's Husbandry" on spine; text block edges sprinkled red and brown.
Provenance
Purchased with the family collection of Abbey contents in situ from Mrs Petronella Burnett-Brown December 2009.
Makers and roles
Henri Louis Duhamel du Monceau (1700-1782) John Mills (d.1784?)