MEMOIRS ET INSTRUCTION; Sur La Culture, L'usage et les advantages de la Racine de Disette ou Betterave Champetre .

COMMERELL, abbé de; John Coakley Lettsom

Published by Onfroy et Petit, Paris, 1788

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8vo, pp. viii-47 p. : [2]. Bound with two engraved folding plates of farming implements in modern half-calf in antique style, very minor foxing, a very nice clean tight copy. See Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 13333. Scarce, the OCLC lists just two copies of this French edition (FHN, ZW9) both in the EU. Scarce edition of this early treatise on the cultivation of the manglewurwel. (a variety of the common beet Beta vulgaris used chiefly as feed for cattle and sheep.).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: MEMOIRS ET INSTRUCTION; Sur La Culture, L'usage et les advantages de la Racine de Disette ou Betterave Champetre .
• Publisher: Onfroy et Petit, Paris
• Publication Date: 1788
• Edition: New edn.
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