Buc'hoz (pierre-joseph) - Periodical Letters On The Method Of Getting Rich Quickly. 1759.

[BUC'HOZ (Pierre-Joseph)] - Periodical letters on the method of getting rich quickly and maintaining your health by growing plants. First, second, third and fourth volume. Curious & interesting periodical letters, on the advantages that economic society can derive from the knowledge of animals, following on from the letters on plants. First, second and third volumes. Weekly letters on the usefulness of minerals in civil society, following the letters on Animals & Plants. First volume. Paris, Chez Cavelier, Durand, Didot and La Combe, 1759; in-8, approval and privilege, 320 + 416 + 358 + 288 + 416 + 415 + 288 + 288 pp., period half-calf bindings, decorated smooth spines, mottled edges, (8 volumes bound in 4). Joseph-Pierre Buc'hoz was born in Metz in 1731. He first became a lawyer in 1750 but left the profession to become a doctor in Nancy in 1763. He was appointed ordinary physician to King Stanislas, then to Monsieur, brother of the king and the Duke of Artois, but he left his functions to devote himself entirely to botany. He participated in the creation of the Nancy Plant Garden and gave courses in botany and natural history. From 1770, Buc'hoz published numerous works of botany and natural history such as a Natural History of Animals, Plants, Minerals and Natural Productions of France, a Veterinary Dictionary of Domestic Animals and a Natural History of the Plant Kingdom which is rewarded by the Academy of Sciences. Work on the three kingdoms of nature: plant, mineral and animal. There is only one volume on minerals, but is there another volume?