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The New Rustic House, or General Savings of all country property... Ninth edition considerably increased, & put in better order; with The virtue of the simple, the apothecary, & the Decisions of the Law of Francis on rural matters... Paris, Samson, 1768. 2 vol. in-4 brown calf, spine with decorated nerves (contemporary binding). Frontispiece and 32 off-text plates (13+19) representing plans and views of formal gardens, field and farm tasks and work, instruments, etc. Several wood carvings in the text. Worn caps and corners, many rubbed, angular tear with one plate missing (not reaching the engraving), light marginal wetnesses in places (a little more pronounced at the inner margins of the first ff. of the 1st vol.), qqs small discrete wormholes, margins of the first ff. of the 2nd vol. gnawed. The ecclesiastical and civil history of the diocese of Laon, and of the whole country contained between the Oise and the Meuse, the Aisne and the Sambre.... Châlons, Seneuze, 1783. In-4 of [4] ff.-623-[17] pp. Marbled calf, spine ribbed and decorated, p. de titre, red tr. (contemporary binding).
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The New Rustic House, or General Savings of all country property... Ninth edition considerably increased, & put in better order; with The virtue of the simple, the apothecary, & the Decisions of the Law of Francis on rural matters... Paris, Samson, 1768. 2 vol. in-4 brown calf, spine with decorated nerves (contemporary binding). Frontispiece and 32 off-text plates (13+19) representing plans and views of formal gardens, field and farm tasks and work, instruments, etc. Several wood carvings in the text. Worn caps and corners, many rubbed, angular tear with one plate missing (not reaching the engraving), light marginal wetnesses in places (a little more pronounced at the inner margins of the first ff. of the 1st vol.), qqs small discrete wormholes, margins of the first ff. of the 2nd vol. gnawed. The ecclesiastical and civil history of the diocese of Laon, and of the whole country contained between the Oise and the Meuse, the Aisne and the Sambre.... Châlons, Seneuze, 1783. In-4 of [4] ff.-623-[17] pp. Marbled calf, spine ribbed and decorated, p. de titre, red tr. (contemporary binding).
