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    Sale 8635

    The Angling Library of the Late Albert Petit

    London, South Kensington

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    8 October 1999

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    Lot 22

    DUHAMEL DU MONCEAU, Henri-Louis -- BERTRAND, J. E. (editor). Description des arts et mtiers, faites our approves par messieurs de l'Acadmie Royale ... nouvelle dition ... Tome V [X, XI]: Trait des pches et histoire des poissons, [by Duhamel du Monceau]. Neuchtel: Imprimerie Typographique, 1776-1779. 3 volumes, 4. 86 engraved plates, contemporary calf, flat gilt spines (slightly bumped).

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    GBP 1,035

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    GBP 500 - GBP 700

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    DUHAMEL DU MONCEAU, Henri-Louis -- BERTRAND, J. E. (editor). Description des arts et mtiers, faites our approves par messieurs de l'Acadmie Royale ... nouvelle dition ... Tome V [X, XI]: Trait des pches et histoire des poissons, [by Duhamel du Monceau]. Neuchtel: Imprimerie Typographique, 1776-1779. 3 volumes, 4. 86 engraved plates, contemporary calf, flat gilt spines (slightly bumped).

    The smaller, quarto edition of Duhamel's treatise on fishery, here published as volumes V, X and XI of the Description des arts et mtiers. With a duplicate copy of volume V, complete with its 28 engraved plates. Petit 691; 692. (4)

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