Nissen, BBI, 542; Pritzel, 2468; Brunet, VI, 4845 ; Conlon, 58 : 655; DSB, IV, 224; not in Hunt.<\/i><\/p>\n
First edition, complete copy with its 50 finely engraved plates<\/span>. <\/p>\n It also contains first and second issue of pages XXIX\/XXX of the introduction (here misplaced into volume II).<\/p>\n “Duhamel’s major interest and contribution to technology and society was in agriculture. The first half of the eighteenth century had witnessed the beginning of a technological renaissance in agriculmture, chiefly in England, where it was notably celebrated in the writings of Jethio Tull… [Duhamel’s] impressive output of works include… La physique des arbres<\/i>” (DSB<\/i>).<\/p>\n His work includes an apreciation of the studies already published by Nehemiah Grew, Edme Mariotte and Marcello Malpighi. “Dans ce livre extr\u00eamement riche l\u2019auteur consigne tout son savoir et toute son exp\u00e9rience en botanique, physiologie v\u00e9g\u00e9tale, arboriculture et technologie du bois. Dans chacun des articles de ses divers chapitres, il fait le point des connaissances de son \u00e9poque sur des sujets tr\u00e8s pr\u00e9cis, les expose et les discute. Il r\u00e9p\u00e8te lui-m\u00eame parfois certaines exp\u00e9riences et relate le travail de Hales souvent avec plus de clart\u00e9 que ce dernier ne le fait lui-m\u00eame. Nous avons affaire \u00e0 un observateur avis\u00e9 autant qu\u2019\u00e0 un exp\u00e9rimentateur innovant. On trouve dans le caract\u00e8re et la m\u00e9thode de Duhamel du Monceau quelque chose d\u2019unique et de tr\u00e8s pr\u00e9cieux : l\u2019essentiel des r\u00e9sultats obtenus par ses pr\u00e9d\u00e9cesseurs est pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 d\u2019une fa\u00e7on tr\u00e8s claire et syst\u00e9matique. Il reste un bien meilleur vulgarisateur que Hales” (P. Robin, Histoire et agronomie, pp.208-210<\/i>).<\/p>\n “En sa qualit\u00e9 d\u2019inspecteur de la marine, Duhamel avait \u00e9t\u00e9 amen\u00e9 \u00e0 rechercher tout ce qui concernait la culture et la conservation des bois propres aux constructions navales. Il en \u00e9tait ensuite venu \u00e0 s\u2019occuper des plantes et des arbustes qui pouvaient supporter le climat de la France. C\u2019est ainsi qu\u2019il fit conna\u00eetre en Europe un grand nombre d\u2019esp\u00e8ces am\u00e9ricaines” (Maury, Journal pour tous, n\u00b0580<\/i>).<\/p>\n Good, complete copy.<\/p>\n Provenance : Henry Dupasquier (engraved book plate), and manuscript annotations to the verso of the flyleaf and the half-title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 2 volumes, 4to (261 x 199 mm) 2 nn.ll., (half-title, title, errata), LXVIII, 306 pp., 28 engraved folding plates for volume I ; 2 nn.ll., III, 432 pp., 22 engraved folding plates for volume II, nn.ll. misbound, belonging to volume I (errata leaf and cancel for pp. XXIX\/XXX of the introduction). Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, red edges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":89466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[532],"product_tag":[1240,1450,1323],"class_list":{"0":"post-89479","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-botanical","7":"product_tag-18th-century-illustrations","8":"product_tag-first-edition","9":"product_tag-general-botany","10":"pa_auteur-duhamel-du-monceau-henri-louis-2","11":"pa_type-de-livre-printed-book","13":"first","14":"instock","15":"shipping-taxable","16":"purchasable","17":"product-type-simple"},"acf":{"artist":" Henri Louis DUHAMEL DU MONCEAU","chapeau":"","adresse_bibliographique":"Paris, H.L. Guerin & L.F. Delatour, 1758","book_type":"Printed book","provenance":"","afficher_prix":""},"yoast_head":"\n