Le Théâtre d'agriculture et Mesnage des champs

Third edition, revised and augmented by the author, published during his lifetime. The copy is complete with the title-frontispiece depicting a "portico of Tuscan architectural order" according to the description of the 1805 edition, whose terrace shows a man ploughing the fields, indicating the content of the book. It is likewise complete with the folding plate and the eight elaborate vignettes. The first edition of this major text was issued from the press only five years earlier, in 1600.

Contemporary binding in white vellum, smooth spine titled and decorated with a fleuron at the head, both in brown ink, ties present, lacking on the fore-edge side. Manuscript ownership inscription in brown ink on the rear pastedown.

Pieces of vellum wanting on the spine and at the head of the rear board, front board slightly split at the fore-edge, a few small pale spots on the boards.

Foxing and browning; pencil marks in the margins of pp. 12–13, on these same pages erased geometric figures, likewise p. 15; dampstaining in the margins of pp. 17 to 441, 465 to 481, 497 (page number repeated twice) to 603, 613 to 753, 771 to 783, and 892 to 913; piece of paper wanting in the margin of p. 223, marginal tear p. 255, likewise p. 363; discreet worming from pp. 413 to 555 and from p. 779 to the final leaf, slightly affecting the text; brown ink stain p. 496, tear of 8.5 cm affecting the text p. 793.