Online auction - Lot 347
[Botany]
Traité de la culture des pêchers.
Paris, Fr. Delaguette; P. Al. Le Prieur, 1750
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8vo: xvi-198-[2] pp. (title cut without loss of text).
Contemp. mottled sheep, gilt orn. flat spine, all edges red (1 corner sl. rubbed, spine with sm. def.).
Second edition (first 1745), revised, corrected and augmented of this popular work on the cultivation and management of peach trees. "C'est la première monographie francaise du pêcher avec toutes les informations nécessaires à sa culture" (Oberlé).
Ref. Barbier IV-755. - Oberlé, Fastes, 621. - Cp. Quérard II:261, BnF.
Prov. Contemp. ms. entries (some erased or cut).