A practical treatise of husbandry : wherein are contained, many useful and valuable experiments and observations in the new husbandry / collected, during a series of years, by the celebrated M. Duhamel du Monceau ... ; also, the most approved practice of the best English farmers, in the old method of husbandry ; with copper-plates of several new and useful instuments.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Duhamel du Monceau, M., 1700-1782.

Contributor:

Mills, John, -1784?

Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Traité de la culture des terres. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Agriculture--Early works to 1800.

Agriculture.

Penn Provenance:

Marshall, C. J. (donor)

Okie, J. M. (donor)

Thompson, Parson (autograph)

Shaddock, James A. L. (autograph, Carolina Co., Va.?)

Clock, W. B. (autograph, Norfolk, Va.)

Physical Description:

xxiv, 489 pages, 7 unnumbered pages, 7 unnumbered leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations ; 27 cm (4to)

Edition:

The second edition, corrected and improved.

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for C. Hitch and L. Hawes, J. Whiston and B. White, J. Rivington, R. Baldwin, W. Johnston, S. Crowder and Co., and B. Law and Co., 1762.

Notes:

Translation of: Traité de la culture des terres.

Dedication signed by the editor and translator, John Mills.

Signatures: [a]⁴ b-c⁴ B-3R⁴ (b1 signed B1).

Titlepage printed in red and black.

One plate is a folded table.

Includes index.

Errata: p. [490].

Local Notes:

Imperfect: second plate torn, part missing.

Cited in:

ESTC T82192

Goldsmiths' Lib. cat. 9748

OCLC:

55583684