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19 - PARMENTIER (Antoine-Augustin). Together 5 volumes on sugar a…
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PARMENTIER (Antoine-Augustin). Together 5 volumes on sugar and the manufacture of syrups and preserved grapes. Instruction sur les moyens de suppléer le sucre dans les principaux usages qu'on en fait pour la médecine et l'économie domestique. Paris, Méquignon, 1808. In-8, 96 pp. paperback. First edition. Following the continental blockade, Napoleon had asked his chemists to find a way to replace the cane sugar France was deprived of. Faulty spine. Instruction sur les sirops et les conserves de raisins, destinés à remplacer le sucre dans les principaux usages de la vie domestique. New revised, corrected and enlarged edition. Paris, Méquignon, 1809. In-8, xv-310-(1) pp. paperback. Second edition, partly original. Traité sur l'art de fabriquer les sirops et les conserves de raisin, destinés à suppléer le sucre des colonies dans les principaux usages de l'économie domestique. Paris, Imprimerie impériale, sold by Mequignon, 1810. In-8, 388 pp. paperback. Third edition, revised, corrected and enlarged. Overview of the results obtained from the manufacture of grape syrups and preserves. - Nouvel aperçu des résultats obtenus de la fabrication des sirops et conserves de raisins. Paris, Imprimerie impériale, 1812-1813. 2 volumes in-8, paperback for the first, marbled boards for the second. First edition of these two complementary works published by Parmentier at the request of the Emperor, who was looking for solutions to enable France to obtain supplies of sugar in the face of the continental blockade. Illustrated with 4 folding plates in volume II. Some brown spots.
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