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
1762
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Shugborough Estate, Staffordshire
NT 3187558
Summary
Bibliographic description
xxiv, 489, [7]p., plates : ill. ; 4to. Provenance: eighteenth-century armorial bookplate, with putti, and motto: Nil Desperandum, Yates, sculp. Thomas Anson Esqr. Shugborough. [i.e. Thomas Anson, of Shugbrough (1695-1773)]. Binding: eighteenth-century calf; double gold fillet border; gold tooled spine; five raised bands; gold lettered spine label: Duhamel's husbandry.
Makers and roles
Henri Louis Duhamel du Monceau (1700-1782) John Mills (d.1784?)