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DUHAMEL DU MONCEAU, Henri Louis (1700-81?). A Practical Treatise of Husbandry. London: J. Whiston and B. White [and others], 1759. 4° (250 x 202mm). Title printed in red and black, one folding table, 6 engraved plates, including 4 folding (margin of title and verso of final leaf browned, part of outer margin of title and following 2 leaves torn away and repaired, lower margin of one folding plate waterstained, minor even browning throughout). Modern polished calf. Provenance: some manuscript annotations in ink on verso of b2. FIRST EDITION. Goldsmiths' 9453; Kress B5778; Perkins 535 (second edition).
HALE, Thomas. A Compleat Body of Husbandry ... to which is annexed, the whole management of the orchard, the brewhouse, and the dairy. London: for T. Osborne and J. Shipton [and others], 1756. 2° (408 x 258mm). Engraved frontispiece, 12 plates, including one folding, engraved illustration (title with very light offsetting from frontispiece). Contemporary calf (rebacked and recornered, quite rubbed, hinges strengthened with fabric tape). FIRST EDITION. Goldsmiths' 9099; Kress 5528; Perkins 737. With Philip Miller's The Gardener's Dictionary (London, 1752). (3)
HALE, Thomas. A Compleat Body of Husbandry ... to which is annexed, the whole management of the orchard, the brewhouse, and the dairy. London: for T. Osborne and J. Shipton [and others], 1756. 2° (408 x 258mm). Engraved frontispiece, 12 plates, including one folding, engraved illustration (title with very light offsetting from frontispiece). Contemporary calf (rebacked and recornered, quite rubbed, hinges strengthened with fabric tape). FIRST EDITION. Goldsmiths' 9099; Kress 5528; Perkins 737. With Philip Miller's The Gardener's Dictionary (London, 1752). (3)
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