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 mainly affecting the last work, partial shadowing on the title pages of the last two parts, trace of a label at the head of the rear pastedown.
Bound at the end, also in first editions and by the same author:
- I. Deuxième mémoire sur les cucurbitacées, principalement sur le melon, contenant la culture en pleine terre de celui-ci, etc., et les perfectionnemens dont elle serait susceptible. Printed in Paris, Imprimerie de Madame Huzard (née Vallat-la-Chapelle), 1827, 118 pp. Extracted from the Mémoires de la Société royale et centrale d’agriculture, year 1827.
- II. Notice sur le melon de la Chine, fait singulier observé sur un de ces melons, et considérations physiologiques sur la fécondation et sur l’hybridité relatives de ce fait. [Paris], Imprimerie de Madame Huzard (née Vallat-la-Chapelle), n.d. [1828], 16 pp. Extracted from the Annales de la Société d’horticulture de Paris, March 1828. Very rare. Only one copy in the CCF (Muséum).
- Handsome set finely bound by Lobstein-Laurenchet.