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.
Henri Louis Duhamel du Monceau (1700-1782)
Category
Books
Date
1762
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3207503
Summary
Bibliographic description
xxiv, 489, [7]p., plates : ill. ; 4to. Provenance: Eighteenth-century Chippendale armorial bookplate displaying lion rampant gules and Hand of Ulster, boar charge and putti supporter, lettered "Sr. Henry Harpur, Bart." [i.e. Sir Henry (Harry) Harpur 6th Bt (1739-1789)]. Binding: Eighteenth-century full sprinkled calf, sewn on three raised cords (with two additional false raised bands), gilt rule on spine. Spine label (wanting), lettered "Duhamel's husbandry". Gilt-tooled board edges. Text-block edges mottled red.
Makers and roles
Henri Louis Duhamel du Monceau (1700-1782) John Mills (d.1784?)