Lot n° 66
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Agriculture - Lot 66
Agriculture
DUHAMEL du MONCEAU (Henri Louis)
Traité de la Conservation des Grains, et en Particulier du Froment. Paris, Guérin ; Delatour, 1753.
In 12 ; 12 numbered folding plates. Engraved by Pheulland.
Contemporary marbled fawn calf, ornate ribbed spine, red title-piece, gilt fillet on edges, small bump on one cut, epidermis, red edges.
Rare first edition. In this treatise, Duhamel advocates storage in large heated and ventilated silos. Born in Paris in 1700, Duhamel was a naval inspector, botanist and agronomist whose entire career was devoted to seeing his research put into practice and put to good use. The land he owned in the Gâtinais served as a testing ground. He modernized agriculture considerably.
A "Supplément au Traité de la conservation des grains avec plusieurs mémoires d'agriculture adressés à l'auteur" was also published by Guérin et Delatour, 1765.
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