SCIENCE / GARDEN] - Lot 140

SCIENCE / GARDEN] OF COMBLES] L'école du jardin potager, Paris, Didot, Delalain, 1780 Two in-12 volumes in full calf, spine ribbed, gilt decoration, title page with I: frontispiece, VJ, 512 pages; II: title, 386 pages, XIJ, 167 pages. Containing an exact description of all vegetable plants, their cultivation, soils, locations and climates, their properties, the different ways of multiplying them, the time to collect seeds, their duration... etc etc. Third edition augmented by the treatise on the cultivation of peach trees by the same author, and to which has been appended the manner of sowing in all seasons. A few red pencil lines in margins. Covers bumped, leather missing. Corners dull. Joints split.