Parmentier,(A.A.), F.Rozier u.a. Theoretical and practical treatise on the culture of grain and the art of making bread. Translated from the French. Vol. 2 (of 2). Vienna, Degen 1807. with 1 folding table. XVI, 942 p., 1 leaf. Pbd. d. Zt. (partly more scuffed a. best.). Enslin, Bibl. oeconom. 85. On Parmentier cf. Poggendorff II, 362f., Engelmann, Bibl. mech.-tech. 276 u. Fromm V, 76f. (all not this work). - Only German edition of the comprehensive work on all aspects of grain cultivation up to bread baking. "P. devoted considerable time to the technology of bread-making. In 1780 he was instrumental in founding the first government-sponsored school of baking in France" (DSB). - Browned and partly foxing. Small wormhole in the front joint. - The missing first volume enclosed as print-on-demand.

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