LÜDERS, PHILIPP ERNST.
Kort Samtale imellem en Landmand og en Præst, hvorudi deels bliver viist Maaden og Midlerne, hvorledes man kand indhegne afdeelte Marker deels tydelig lagt for Dagen den øyensynlige Skade, som flyder af Mark-Fælledskabet : Forfattet i Spørgsmaal og Giensvar.
Kiøbenhavn, 1760.
4to. In contemporary half calf with three raised bands. Traces from old paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Light wear to extremities. Light occassional brownspotting. Worm tract to lower inner margin of first leaves, not affecting text. (8), 188 pp.
Rare first edition of Lüders early work on gardening and agriculture. Lüders himself explicitly described his book as a kind of pedagogical experiment aimed at the peasants. In an attempt to make the content more digestible for them, the book was written in dialogue form as a long series of questions and answers about the cultivation of, among other things, flax, potatoes and clover. Philipp Ernst Lüders (1702 - 1786) was a Protestant pastor in Munkbrarup and provost in the Glücksburg provostry, an educator, an agricultural reformer of the Enlightenment era and one of the first agricultural economists. Biblioteca Danica II, 281.
Lüders’ hope was that the book would be distributed to the peasants and that through reading it, they would be convinced to abandon their 'misguided notions' and 'old preconceived opinions' and be encouraged to try out new cultivation methods.
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