VARENNE-FENILLE (Philibert-Charles-Marie )] - Lot 120

VARENNE-FENILLE (Philibert-Charles-Marie )] Mémoires sur l'administration forestière et sur les qualités individuelles des bois indigènes ou qui sont acclimatés en France auxquels on a joint la description des bois exotiques que nous fournit le commerce. A useful work for landowners who want to manage their forests, judge with precision the age at which they should cut them down, and know the most advantageous use of the different species of trees, according to their qualities as determined by a large number of observations and new experiments. Published in Paris by Marchant, agricultural bookseller, 1807. Two parts in one volume, in-8, in havana half-bassane, spine ribbed, gilt framing and fillets, XVI, 168 pages, 239 pages, 2 plates out of text. Second, revised and corrected edition of these memoirs. Label of the general intendance of the civil list, Forêts de la couronne - Inspections de Versailles. Book distribution in 1838, as a special reward - Mr Chambellaun, garde général. Binding signed Bibolet (1792-1845). Upper cover missing. Fresh inside. Copy complete with two plates.