La Nouvelle Maison Rustique, Ou Economie Generale De Tous Les Biens De Campagne: La Maniere De Les Entretenir & De Les Multiplier: Donnee Ci-Devant Au Public / Par Le Sieur Liger (2 Volume Set)
Chez Humblot, Libraire, 1775. First Edition. Leather Binding. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall (tall thick). Very Good / No Jacket. Item #L072865
Wear to extremities (chiefly to foredges, corners and heads of spines); slight rubbing to covers (leather; chiefly at edges); corners bumped and slightly worn; lacks part of front free endpaper to volume 2; slight internal creases and browning (chiefly to preliminaries and edges). [4], iv, [4], 916; [6], 918, [2] pages + plates. Title on spines: Maison Rustique. Text in French. Later issue ('Dixieme Edition / Augmentee considerablement, & mise en meilleur ordre'; title pages) of the voluminous compilation on domestic agriculture (including chapters on hunting, falconry, sportsmanship, etc, besides gardening); notable for the copperplate illustrations (done by an artist only identified as 'M. * * *'). This copy has at least one full-page hand-colored engraving (volume 1, between pages 574 and 575), and a few others at least partly hand-colored. With individual indexes at rear of both volumes, plus the 'Privilege du Roi' (1 leaf, recto/verso) at rear of volume 2. BMC, volume 15, page 376, column 479 (listing only the 6th and the 8th previous editions with this title, in addition to this one). 2 volumes complete; bound uniformly in full brown tree calf, gilt-stamped and decorated spines with raised bands, covers triple-ruled in blind, dark red/blue marbled endpapers, brown marbled edges, all edges trimmed. Provenance: With unidentified holograph ink inscription at foot of page 918 in volume 2 (prior to the 'Privilege du Roi' leaf): 'A Mr Durande'. Nice, tight and sound set internally.Over 30 Engraved Illustrations (including Frontispiece & headpieces; Some folding).
Price: $995.00