LA SALLE DE L'ÉTANG. Manuel d'agriculture pour le laboureur, - Lot 39

LA SALLE DE L'ÉTANG. Manuel d'agriculture pour le laboureur, pour le propriétaire et pour le gouvernement: contenant les vrais et seuls moyens de faire prospérer l'agriculture... À Paris, Lottin l'Aîné et Dessain, 1764, fort vol. in-8°, red morocco, gilded fillets around the boards, fleur-de-lys in the corner, arms in the center, spine decorated with a fleur-de-lys repeated several times, gilded star paper lining and endpapers, gilded edges (period binding). Collation: 1st part: 1 title page, 1 title page, xviij pp., 376 pp. eds. [1]-376 / 2nd part: 1 f. de faux-titre n. ch. [377-378], 84 pp. o.c. [379]-462 / Part 3: 1 f. title page n. o.c. [463-464], 26 pp. o.c. [465]-490 / 1 f. "Réfutation de la nouvelle méthode de M. Thull" n. ch. [491-492], 116 pp. ch. [493]-608 for 584. FIRST EDITION. The agronomist S.P. de La Salle (ca. 1700 - 1765) defended traditional agriculture against the new theories of Jethro Thull, Duhamel du Monceau and Patullo. He was one of the first advocates of artificial meadows. A frontispiece engraved by C.N. Cochin. A superb copy on large paper, bearing the coat of arms of Louis Stanislas Xavier de France (1755-1795), the future Louis XVIII, sixth child of the Dauphin. The frontispiece has not been bound. Size : 196 x 121 mm. Provenance: Alfred André (1827-1896), whose widow bequeathed a collection of rare and precious works on European reform to the SHPF on his death in 1913. Thomas-Scheller, La Vie à la campagne, no. 113; Olivier, 2536.