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[NATURAL SCIENCES and HORTICULTURE].
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235 - B
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[NATURAL SCIENCES and HORTICULTURE].
See original version (French)
Estimate €400 - €500
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Description
[NATURAL SCIENCES and HORTICULTURE].
Set of 8 volumes, 19th century, in various conditions and formats.
- The Art of Using Fruit and of Making All Sorts of Jams and Liqueurs at Little Cost, a follow-up to *The Country Cook*.
Paris: Audot, 1818. In-12, (4)-VIII-155 pp. Fine, lightly speckled fawn calfskin (19th century), gilt coat of arms in the centre of the covers, gilt edges on marbled paper (spine missing, corners worn, second cover slightly rubbed, a few scattered foxing spots but interior remains fresh).
A rare first edition. Often overlooked in bibliographies, which cite only the reprint (by Quentin). Complete with the line drawing illustrating a cross-section of an underground domestic icehouse, by Susémilh.
From the library of Marie-Caroline de Bourbon-Sicile, Duchess of Berry, bearing one of her gilt stamps embossed on the covers (similar to OHR, 2519, no. 2).
As this volume does not bear the ex libris of ‘La Bibliothèque du château de Rosny’, it forms part of the second phase of her life, the titles of which can be found in her posthumous sales.
-LEREBOURS, Noël-Marie Paymal.
Description of simplified achromatic microscopes by P. N. Lerebours, manufacturer of optical, physical, mathematical and nautical instruments.
Paris, Published by N.-P. Lerebours, (1841). (11)-84-(3) pp., one folding plate and (4) pp. of subscription forms. Paperback in 8vo format, cover printed on yellow paper (some foxing but a good, well-preserved copy). A line drawing and an advertisement for Stanhope microscopes, adorned with an engraved woodcut signed by the author (a drop of water under a microscope). Subscription for the *Excursions Daguerriennes*, 2 ff., a collection of 50 plates extolling the novelty and precision of the daguerreotype, just a few years after the first images were taken around 1830. Lerebours (1807–1873) was an optician and daguerreotypist. His achromatic microscopes are still sought after by collectors. Ex dono of the author, whose hand is on the cover, donated to the Société des Sciences Naturelles de Seine et Oise.
And miscellaneous items.
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