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Culture de la Grosse Asperge, bound with - Culture de l'asperge de Gravelines, et des Petits-Pois
by Fillassier, Jean-Jacques & Robert-Xavier Mallet
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Calf over marbled boards, spine decorated in gilt. Very good
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About This Item
A Amsterdam; Et se trouve A Paris: Chez Méquignon l'aîné, Libraire, rue des Cordeliers, 1779. First Edition. Hardcover. Calf over marbled boards, spine decorated in gilt. Very good. 46 pages. Dite de Holland, la plus précoce, la plus hâtive, la plus fécond & la plus durable que l'on connoisse. Traité qui présente les moyens de la cultiver avec succès, en toutes sortes de terres. (Dutch asparagus, the earliest, the most fertile and the most durable that we know). Fillassier's book on the cultivation of asparagus was one of the many books on Agriculture in Thomas Jefferson's Catalogue of Books.
35 pages, plus index.
Interior crisp and clean, all edges red. Boards rubbed at edges.
35 pages, plus index.
Interior crisp and clean, all edges red. Boards rubbed at edges.
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- Title
- Culture de la Grosse Asperge, bound with - Culture de l'asperge de Gravelines, et des Petits-Pois
- Author
- Fillassier, Jean-Jacques & Robert-Xavier Mallet
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Calf over marbled boards, spine decorated in gilt. Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Chez Méquignon l'aîné, Libraire, rue des Cordeliers
- Place of Publication
- A Amsterdam; Et se trouve A Paris
- Date Published
- 1779
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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