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428 - ROZIER (Abbé François). A Comprehensive Course in Practical …
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ROZIER (Abbé François). A Comprehensive Course in Practical Agriculture, Rural and Domestic Economics, and Veterinary Medicine. Arranged in alphabetical order: A work from which all superfluous theory has been omitted, and in which only those methods have been retained that have been confirmed by experience and recommended by Rozier, Mr Parmentier and the other contributors chosen by Rozier. It has been supplemented with practical knowledge acquired since the publication of his original work, covering all branches of agriculture and rural and domestic economics. By Messrs: Sonnini, Tollard the Elder, Lamarck, Chabert, Lafosse, Fromage Defeugré, Cadet-de-Vaux, Lamerville, Cossigny, Curaudau, Chevalier, Lombard, Cadet-Gassicourt, Poiret, Chaumontel, Louis Dubois, V. Demusset, Demusset de Cogners. Paris, Buisson, Collin and Colas, 1809; 6 vols. in-8. Portrait–598 pp.–8 pp. (catalogue)–4 plates. Portrait–534 pp.–32 pp. (Thesis awarded a prize by the Marne Agricultural Society, by Mr Marchais)—5 plates 603 pp.—2 plates 606 pp.—3 plates 510 pp.—112 pp. (‘To Landowners’)-3 plates. Full sheepskin with root-cut edges, smooth spines, gilt fillets and fleurons, red title labels, black volume number labels. Ex-libris on the upper covers: ‘E. Ternier’. Handwritten notes on 3 folios at the beginning of Volume 1 and on the back of the title page. New edition and revision of a treatise whose publication began in 1781, interrupted at volume 8 by the Revolution and then in 1793 by the author’s death, and resumed by a group of authors up to and including the twelfth and final volume in 1801. Includes portraits of Rozier and Parmentier.
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