[Rarebooks] FS: 1st English ed. of Duhamel du Monceau's "Elements of Agriculture" Dublin: 1767

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Duhamel du Monceau, M.  THE ELEMENTS OF AGRICULTURE. Translated from the Original French, and Revised by Philip Miller... In Two Volumes. Illustrated with Fourteen Copper-Plates. Dublin: Printed by G. Faulkner. 1767. First edition in English. 8vo. 2 vols. bound in 1. xx,292;viii,224pp. Illustrated with 14 copper engraved folding plates. Early 19th c. blind tooled calf spine with brown calf label, over marbled boards. Engraved armorial bookplate of James B. Ferguson on front pastedown. Rare. Only 2 American locations recorded by the ESTC.	$850.00 (trade discount allowed)
The translator & editor, Philip Miller (1691-1771) was Gardener to the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries at Chelsea, and a Member of the Botanick Academy at Florence.


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