Cours élémentaire d'arboriculture et de viticulture, résumé du cours public gratuit, fait sous les auspices de la Société d'horticulture de Mulhouse

First edition, illustrated with 19 folding plates at the end of the volume.

Contemporary half green calf, smooth spine darkened with age, decorated with gilt garlands and fillets, with small blind-stamped fleurons; sides framed with triple blind fillets; marbled paper boards; marbled endpapers and pastedowns; speckled edges.

André Menet-Aeschimann (1813–1898) was head gardener of the garden of the Société d’horticulture de Mulhouse.

Bound after Daniel BOUSCASSE: "Prompte formation des arbres fruitiers" (S.l.n.d. [La Rochelle, Siret, 1859], 36 pp.).

This additional work is illustrated, at the end of the volume, with 2 folding plates.

The title page alone is lacking; only two copies recorded in the CCF (BnF, Rennes). Bound by Abry, in Colmar.

Manuscript ex-libris Ostermeier on the front endpaper of the first volume.