ROZIER (Abbé François). Cours complet d'agriculture pratique - Lot 478

ROZIER (Abbé François). Cours complet d'agriculture pratique, d'économie rurale et domestique, et de médecine vétérinaire. Written in alphabetical order: A work from which we have removed all superfluous theory, and in which we have retained the procedures confirmed by experience and recommended by Rozier, by M. Parmentier and the other collaborators Rozier had chosen. The practical knowledge acquired since the publication of his work on all branches of agriculture and rural and domestic economics has been added. By Messrs: Sonnini, Tollard aîné, Lamarck, Chabert, Lafosse, Fromage Defeugré, Cadet-de-Vaux, Lamerville, Cossigny, Curaudau, Chevalier, Lombard, Cadet-Gassicourt, Poiret, Chaumontel, Louis Dubois, V. Demusset, Demusset de Cogners. Paris, Buisson, Collin et Colas, 1809; 6 vol. in-8. Portrait-598 pp.-8 pp. (catalog)-4 pl. Portrait-534 pp.-32 pp. (Mémoire couronné par la Société d'agriculture de la Marne, by M. Marchais)-5 pl. 603 pp.-2 pl. 606 pp.-3 pl. 510 pp.-112 pp. ("Aux propriétaires ruraux")-3 pl. Basane racinée, smooth spines, gilt fillets and fleurosn, red titles, black endpapers. Supra-ex-libris on upper boards: "E. Ternier". Handwritten notes on 3 ff. at the head of volume 1 and on the spine of the title. New edition and reworking of the Traité whose publication began in 1781, interrupted in volume 8 by the Revolution, then in 1793 by the author's death, and continued by a group of authors until volume 12 and last in 1801. With portraits of Rozier and Parmentier.