"In 3 Beautiful Volumes "portable Domestic Dictionary" By A Society Of Gens Of Letters, 1762"
In three strong volumes in 12 from 1762. In Paris . Chez Vincent, Printer-Bookseller, rue Saint Séverin: full calfskin spine with raised bands decorated with beautiful gilded irons, titles and numbering in red and ocher morocco, marbled endpapers, red edges: "Portable Domestic Dictionary, containing all the knowledge relating to domestic economics & rural, where we detail the different branches of Agriculture, & in which we find the necessary instructions on Hunting, Fishing, the Arts, Commerce, Procedure, the Office, cooking, the way of caring for horses, feeding and preserving all kinds of livestock, raising bees and silkworms; a work also useful to those who live off their income or who have land, as well as to farmers and gardeners. , to Traders, and to Artists. By a Society of People of Letters. Fascinating dictionary written for the common good by the Encyclopedists. Rare and in very good condition, very informative for penetrating the 18th Century; under Louis XV...