DUHAMEL DU MONCEAU, H.L.

Des Semis et Plantations des Arbres et de leur Culture ou méthodes pour multiplier et elever les Arbres, les Planter en Massifs et en Avenues former les Forets & les Bois

Paris, Veuve Desaint, 1780.

4to. In fine contemporary motted full calf with five raised bands and gilt lettering and ornamentation to spine. A bit of wear to extremities, mainly to lower part of hindges, otherwise a very fine and clean copy. LXXXII, 420, (2) pp. + 16 folded plates. 

Second edition of Duhamel's important work on tree cultivation. "Duhamel's tree-planting on both his own estate and his brother's provided the practical experience behind his books as he explained in the preface to 'Semis et Plantations' . The sections of the book discuss the soil, the climate, and the choice of the trees; their propagation; nursery gardens; planting; forests, and maintenance and re-afforestation, with all instuments based firmly on the author's long experience of forestry" (S. Raphael. An Oak Spring Sylva p. 10)

Order-nr.: 60161