Duhamel du Monceau, Henry Louis

FIRST EDITION, 2 volumes, 4to (337 x 250mm.), half-titles, engraved frontispiece, 180 engraved plates, contemporary mottled calf gilt, triple gilt fillet borders on covers, spine tooled gilt in seven compartments with floral and foliate motifs, red and green morocco labels, royal blue endpapers, gilt turn-ins and edges, area of dampstaining to frontispiece

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A FINE COPY of an important contribution to the study of fruit and fruit trees. As a trained scientist, Duhamel did much to introduce scientific method into pomological descriptions.