Bidspirit auction | MÉMOIRES d' Agriculture, d'Économie Rurale

MÉMOIRES d' Agriculture, d'Économie Rurale et Domestique. Paris. 1785-1787. - MÉMOIRES d' Agriculture, d'Économie Rurale et Domestique . A. 1785, trimestre d'Été - a. 1787, trimestre d'Automne. Paris: Chez Buisson, Cuchet, 1785-1787. 8 trimestres em 4 v.: il.; 205 mm. A collection of eight quarterly issues, bound in four volumes, from the first series of Mémoires d'Agriculture, d'Économie Rurale et Domestique , the official publication of the Société royale d'agriculture de Paris, founded in 1761: the summer and autumn quarters of 1785, the first of which corresponds to the inaugural issue of the publication; the winter and spring quarters of 1786; and the four quarters of 1787, the entire year. The summer and autumn quarters of 1786 are missing. The first series, published quarterly between the summer of 1785 and the autumn of 1791, totaling twenty-six issues, with publication continuing under different names of the Society until 1872. It brings together memoirs of members and correspondents of the Society on the cultivation of cereals, trees and forage crops, livestock breeding, domestic economy and the introduction of new agricultural practices, constituting a primary source for the study of French agronomy on the eve of the Revolution. Illustrated with prints. Unusual. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate