A Fine Octavo Copy Of The "manual Of Agriculture" From 1764, Published In Paris, By M. De La Salle De l'Etang.

This handsome, large octavo volume, bound in mottled calf, with a spine featuring raised bands and gilt tooling in the "thistle" motif within the compartments, a tan morocco title, marbled endpapers, and red edges. A fine, complete copy in a Louis XV-era binding: "Manual of Agriculture" for the farmer, the landowner, and the government: containing the true and only means of making agriculture prosper, both in France and in all other states where it is cultivated; with: The refutation of Mr. Thull's New Method. By Mr. De La Salle de l'Etang, Lord of Muyr, Tinqueux, etc., former Deputy of the City of Reims in Paris. Printed in Paris, by Lottin the Elder, Bookseller & Printer, rue Saint-Jacques, at the sign of the Rooster, & Desain Jumior, Bookseller, Quai des Augustins, at the sign of Good Faith. 1764. A fresh copy of The Art of Cultivating the Land, frontispiece after Cochin in 1764, engraved by B.L. Prévost...