[ Footsteps approach ] The School of the... - Lot 7 - Les ventes Damien Voglaire SRL

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[ Footsteps approach ] The School of the... - Lot 7 - Les ventes Damien Voglaire SRL
[ Footsteps approach ] The School of the Vegetable Garden, which includes the exact description of all vegetable plants; the qualities of soil, situations and climates that are proper to them; the cultivation they require; their properties for life, and their virtues for health; the different ways of multiplying them; the time for collecting seeds; their duration, etc. [COMBES de]. The manner of training and conducting the Layers and of raising Mushrooms in all seasons, etc., etc., etc. By the Author of the Treatise on Peach Cultivation. New edition. Paris. Boudet. Le Prieur. 1752, 2 vol. in-12, [18]-536 and [6]-586-[5]-1 white p., nice frontispiece by Cochin engraved by Sornique in the 1st vol., vignette repeated on each title page, full rooted basane, spine with ribs entirely ornamented, title and tomaison pieces in brown leather, red slices (minor defects). Good copy. We know from the author that he was born in Lyon at the beginning of the 18th c., that he stayed in Naples where he developed his taste for gardening. His "École du jardin potager" is considered to be his best work. He probably died around 1770.
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