Live auction - Lot 248
[Botany - Trees]
Traité de la culture des pêchers.
Paris, Delaguette, Le Prieur, 1750
Hammer price: €
130
€ 100 / 150
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Lot description
8vo: xvi-198-[2] pp. (some min. spotting, part of blank corner on p. xi visibly repaired touching some letters).
Contemp. mottled calf, flat gilt-orn. spine, red edges.
Second (1st 1745) revised and enlarged edition of this manual for 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.