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Description
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Bernard-Laurent SOUMILLE
Description of the Languedoc hand-operated seed drill. With the necessary diagrams to enable its reproduction. Free edition.
Avignon, Jacques Garrigan, Printer and Bookseller, 1762.
In-16 format, comprising 71-(1)-16-(1) pages. Contemporary full havana sheepskin binding, ribbed spine decorated with gilded fleurs-de-lis. A rare first edition, illustrated with 6 wood-engraved plates in the text. This seed drill was invented by the Abbé SOUMILLE (1703–1774), a mathematician, physicist and agronomist, a priest and benefice holder of the chapter of Villeneuve-lès-Avignon, a Corresponding Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences in Paris.
Complete with all 6 plates at the end of the volume.
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