Traité de la culture des pêchers.

8vo: xvi-198-[2] pp.

Contemp. mottled sheep (corners rubbed), gilt orn. spine with 5 raised bands (sm. def. at head), marbled endpapers, all edges red.

Third 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 (1750 ed.). - Oberlé, Fastes, 621 (ed. 1750). - Cp. Quérard II:261. - COPAC. - Cp. BnF.
Prov. "A. Pepin" (ms. ownership entries).