[MANUSCRIPT - NATURAL HISTORY]. “Cours de Culture. 1855-56”. [France, c.1856]. A manuscript copy of an unidentified work on a wide-range of subjects.
Sale 1022 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
May 4, 2022
9:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
Estimate
$400 -
$600
Sold for $1,000
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
[MANUSCRIPT - NATURAL HISTORY]. “Cours de Culture. 1855-56”. [France, c.1856].
769 pages, plus blanks and index at end, 4to (190 x 146mm). In French. Written in a small neat cursive in dark brown ink. Illustrated with ca 70 pen-and-ink drawings in text (one full-page hand-colored garden plan); numerous tables. Bound in contemporary French quarter sheep (joints repaired). Provenance: “Lizot” (name gilt-lettered at foot of spine).
A manuscript copy of an unidentified work on a wide-range of subjects, including horticulture, botany, floriculture, propagation, farm production and equipment, nutrition, zoologie and human anatomy. It may have been transcribed a Lizot, whose name appears on the spine.
Selections from Antiquariat Botanicum, Dr. Eugene Vigil
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