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Illustrated with a frontispiece and 35 engravings out of text (including two folding plates depicting presses) and numerous woodcuts in the text, several of which relate to hunting and falconry.
The subjects are covered in great detail, each article gives a precise image of the techniques and methods used at the beginning of the 19th century: hunting, fishing, gastronomy and wine, with numerous cooking, pastry and jam recipes. , liqueurs, bees, but also on construction, gardens and how to design them, the barnyard, horses, harvests, all species of trees and shrubs, birds etc etc. The success of this encyclopedia is to have been able to concentrate a maximum of practical knowledge (without facilities or vulgarizations) in an almost playful way for the reader, the chapters on the garden are exemplary in this respect.
LIGER, Louis?
The New Rustic House or General Economy of all Country Goods: the manner of maintaining and multiplying them; given above to the Public by Sieur Liger. 9th edition, considerably increased, & put in better order: with the virtue of the simples, the Apothecary, & the Decisions of French Law on Rural Matters; and enriched with Figures in Intaglio [2 volumes]
Paris: at Humblot, 1775
in4 (21 × 26cm); Complete in 2 volumes of iv-(2)-916 pp + 2f (table) - 918pp. 1f. (approval) // Frontispiece & 13 plates in volume 1 + 22 plates in volume 2 including 2 filled in (presses). Full control.
Two period bindings in full marbled & glazed calfskin, ribbed spine adorned with a title and volume number piece, decor with fleuron partitions struck with gilt irons. Red slices.
Condition: Restorations to crowns, joints and flat edges. Solid volumes. Fairly fresh interior, slight foxing, edges of the margins a little yellowed. In good condition.
Well printed, embellished with woodcut letterpress ornaments.
Subject: Liger Rustic House 35 Plates 1775 Oenology Gastronomy Hunting Fishing Falconry Gardening Agriculture 67597955