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Imprimerie de Madame Huzard

Pierre Marie Sébastien BIGOT DE MOROGUES
Recherches théoriques et pratiques de la meilleure méthode pour faire fermenter économiquement le vin, le cidre et les autres liqueurs du même genre[Theoretical and Practical Research on the Best Method for Economically Fermenting Wine, Cider, and Other Similar Liquors]
Imprimerie de Madame Huzard|Paris 1825|13.5 x 21.5 cm|Broché

First edition, taken from the Mémoires de la Société royale et centrale d'agriculture, for the year 1824.

Illustrated with a folding plate inserted out of text.

Our copy is preserved in its original state, sewn and issued in a plain blue provisional wrapper.

Scattered light foxing.

A grandson of the founder and first director of the Académie royale de marine, Pierre-Marie-Sébastien Bigot de Morogues (1776-1840) devoted himself principally to agricultural matters.
€1,700
Augustin SAGERET
Mémoire sur les cucurbitacées, principalement sur le melon, avec des considérations sur la production des hybrides, des variétés, etc..[Memoir on the Cucurbitaceae, principally on the Melon, with Considerations on the Production of Hybrids, Varieties, etc.]
Imprimerie de Madame Huzard|Paris 1826|12.8 x 20.3 cm|3 volumes reliés en 1
First edition of the first of Augustin Sageret’s (1763–1851) two memoirs on cucurbits. Sageret was a pioneer in plant hybridization, particularly through his experiments with melons.
Only two copies of this edition are recorded in the CCF (Muséum and Lyon). Extracted from the Mémoires de la Société royale et centrale d’agriculture, year 1825. Pritzel 7969. Oberlé, Fastes, 708.
Half green long-grain morocco binding, spine faded and slightly darkened, decorated with gilt and black double fillets and blind-stamped floral tools, gilt rolls at head and tail, gilt date at foot, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers, marbled edges, modern binding.
Some foxing...
€1,500
Nicolas Louis FRANÇOIS DE NEUFCHÂTEAU
Des Vins de fruits. Extraits des notes du huitième lieu de la nouvelle édition du Théâtre d'agriculture et mesnage des champs, d'Olivier de Serres, publiée par la Société d'agriculture du département de la Seine, en deux volumes in-4°[Fruit Wines. Extracts from the notes to the eighth section of the new edition of Théâtre d’agriculture et mesnage des champs by Olivier de Serres, published by the Agricultural Society of the Department of the Seine, in two quarto volumes]
Imprimerie de Madame Huzard|Paris Novembre 1805 (An XIV)|19.6 x 25 cm|Broché
First edition of this offprint of great rarity.
Not listed in Musset-Pathay. Only two copies recorded in the Catalogue Collectif de France (Institut and Orléans).
Our copy is presented in a modern temporary wrapper made to resemble old paper.
Wine and cherry brandy, homemade kirschen-vasser, gin, juniper wine, poor man’s wine, currant wine, raisin and other dried fruit wines, etc.
€800
LAMBRY
Exposé d'un moyen mis en pratique pour empêcher la vigne de couler et hâter la maturité du raisin[An Account of a Method Put into Practice to Prevent the Vine from Shedding and to Accelerate the Ripening of the Grape]
Imprimerie de Madame Huzard|Paris 1818|14 x 21.7 cm|Broché
Second edition, illustrated with a large folding plate bringing together five figures (referred to as “plates”).
Our copy is preserved in its original stitched wrappers, in the blank provisional waiting cover, with manuscript annotations in ink on the upper cover.
Two faint waterstains, one at the foot of the first page and the other at the head of the last.
The author, formerly florist-gardener on the Brunoy estates of Monsieur (Louis XVIII), was at the time a nurseryman at Mandres [les-Roses].
€600
Louis-Étienne-François HÉRICART DE THURY
Rapport fait à la Société d'encouragement pour l'industrie nationale, au nom du Comité des arts mécaniques, sur le bocard vaporisateur des poudres éthérées, de M. Auger, Fabricant de chocolats de la Cour ; par M. le Vicomte Héricart de Thury, Maître des Requêtes, Ingénieur en chef au Corps royal des Mines, Officier de la Légion-d'Honneur[Report to the Society for the Encouragement of National Industry, submitted on behalf of the Committee for the Mechanical Arts, on Mr Auger’s vapour-mill for ethereal powders, Mr Auger being Chocolate Manufacturer to the Court; by Viscount Héricart de Thury, Maître des Requêtes, Chief Engineer in the Royal Corps of Mines, Officer of the Légion d’Honneur]
Imprimerie de Madame Huzard|Paris 1820|20.8 x 26.5 cm|Relié
First edition, issued in a very small number as an offprint from the Bulletins de la Société d'encouragement pour l'industrie nationale, t. CXCI et CXCII.
Not recorded by Quérard.
The pamphlet is illustrated with three folding technical plates, engraved by Normand fils.
Bradel binding in paper-covered boards entirely clad in blue paper, with a black vertical spine label showing minor losses; a modern binding.
The work describes the apparatus devised by the chocolatier Auger, which made it possible to reduce any animal, vegetable or mineral substance to "poussières impalpables, aériformes ou éthérées".
Héricart de Thury, Chief Engineer in the Royal...
€800

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Imprimerie de Madame Huzard

Recherches théoriques et pratiques de la meilleure méthode pour faire fermenter économiquement le vin, le cidre et les autres liqueurs du même genre[Theoretical and Practical Research on the Best Method for Economically Fermenting Wine, Cider, and Other Similar Liquors]

Mémoire sur les cucurbitacées, principalement sur le melon, avec des considérations sur la production des hybrides, des variétés, etc..[Memoir on the Cucurbitaceae, principally on the Melon, with Considerations on the Production of Hybrids, Varieties, etc.]

Exposé d'un moyen mis en pratique pour empêcher la vigne de couler et hâter la maturité du raisin[An Account of a Method Put into Practice to Prevent the Vine from Shedding and to Accelerate the Ripening of the Grape]