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DICTIONAIRE PRATIQUE DU BON MENAGER DE CAMPAGNE ET DE VILLE: de nourrir, élever & gouverner, tant en santéque malades, toutes sortes de Bestiaux, Chevaux & Volailles, de sçavoir mettre à son profit tout ce que provient de l'Agriculture; de faire valoir toutes sortes de Terres, Prez, Vignes & Bois; de cultiver l
by Liger, Louis
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Brown calf, raised bands, spine gilt decorated with red Morocco label. Very good
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About This Item
Paris: Chez Pierre Ribou, 1715. First Edition. Hardcover. Brown calf, raised bands, spine gilt decorated with red Morocco label. Very good. Two Volumes bound in one. Vol. I 436 pages. Vol. II 400 pages. 26 x 20 cm. Title translated: PRACTICAL DICTIONARY OF THE GOOD COUNTRY AND CITY MANAGER, to feed, raise & govern, both healthy and sick, all kinds of Cattle, Horses & Poultry, to know how to put to his profit all that comes from Agriculture; to assert all kinds of Lands, Prez, Vines & Woods; to cultivate the Gardens, both Fruit Trees, Vegetable Gardens, and Flower Gardens; to conduct the Waters, & generally to do all that befits Ornamental Gardens. WITH A TREATISE OF EVERYTHING CONCERNING Cookery, Jams, Pastry Liquors of all kinds, Different Hunting, Fishing, & other Country Recreations; the Latin words of all that is dealt with in this Book, & some curious Remarks on most of them; all in favor of foreigners, and of all those who like this sort of reading. very useful work in families.
Leather Book-Label on paste-down endpaper of the Famed French Chef, Raymond Oliver, owner of Le Grand Vefour on the Rue de Beaujolais in the Palais-Royal district. Other antiquated Book-Label above. Complete, clean copy. Boards rubbed at edges with some loss to head and tail of spine. Hinges cracked but holding. [BITTING 287]
Leather Book-Label on paste-down endpaper of the Famed French Chef, Raymond Oliver, owner of Le Grand Vefour on the Rue de Beaujolais in the Palais-Royal district. Other antiquated Book-Label above. Complete, clean copy. Boards rubbed at edges with some loss to head and tail of spine. Hinges cracked but holding. [BITTING 287]
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- Title
- DICTIONAIRE PRATIQUE DU BON MENAGER DE CAMPAGNE ET DE VILLE
- Author
- Liger, Louis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Brown calf, raised bands, spine gilt decorated with red Morocco label. Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Chez Pierre Ribou
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1715
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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