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3 Volumes. 4to. pp. 2 p.l., xvi, 889; 2 p.l., v, [1], 899; 2 p.l., xii, 1006. with half-titles. 60 engraved plates (29 folding). contemporary mottled sheep, gilt backs (covers abraded & stained in spots, scattered light foxing & browning). First Bastien Edition, entirely revised and enlarged, of this rural and domestic encyclopedia. The work has its origins in Charles Estienne's Praedium Rusticum (1554), the French version of which was edited and seen through the press by Jean Liébault in 1564 under the title L'Agriculture et Maison Rustique. Numerous editions, revisions, and updates followed, with French horticulturalist Louis Liger's two-volume modernized version, Oeconomie Générale de la Compagne, ou Nouvelle Maison Rustique, first appearing in 1700. Bastien has here completely revised and rearranged the text, and made copious additions in terms of both text and illustrations. The work includes sections on buildings and provisions, agriculture, husbandry, silk worm culture, bee-keeping, diseases of plants and animals, gardening, viticulture, hunting, fishing, distillation, apothecary medicine, and cookery. Illustrating the text are sixty engraved plates of domestic animals, plants and trees, honey and silk production, field cultivation, wine presses, fishing nets, animal traps, farming instruments, &c. Bitting 287. Brunet III 1075. Graesse IV 209. Vicaire 521. cfSimon 958. See Hunt 600. Seller Inventory # EIGN[LIG81
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