‎YOUNG, A.‎
‎Le cultivateur anglois, ou Oeuvres choisies d'agriculture et d'économie rurale et politique. Traduit de l'Anglois par les MM. Lamarre, Benoist et Billecocq; avec des notes par le citoyen Delalauze, coopérateur du 'Cours d'agriculture' de l'abbé Rozier. Avec des planches en taille-douce.‎

‎A Paris, Chez Maradan, an IX, 1800-1801. With 73 plates on 72 leaves (plates 28/29 are printed on one single leaf) and 6 tables. 18 volumes. 8vo. Contemporary calf, spines gilt with red and green labels with gilt lettering, and with gilt lettered on upper sides: 'Ferme expérimentale'. Musset-Pathay 308; Kress B.4312; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in Mattioli. First French translation of Young's works. Complete set of Young's most important works to which are added Delalauze's valuable notes. Of fundamental interest for the history of agriculture. Contains: Voyages au sud, à l'ouest, au midi de l'Angleterre. - Voyage au nord de l'Angleterre. 2 volumes. - Voyage à l'est de l'Angleterre. 3 volumes. - Voyage en Irlande. 2 volumes. - Lettres d'un fermier. 2 volumes. - Guide du fermier. - Expériences d'agriculture. 2 volumes. - Annales d'agriculture. 3 volumes. - Voyage en France. - Arithmétique politique.It is in the diffusion and popularisation of new and improved practices that the merit of Arthur Young's works lies. His descriptions of the tours he made through France and Ireland, the general descriptions as well as those of roads, commerce, manufactures, arts, country houses and palaces are still used as a source for the study of eighteenth-century conditions. - Added: the prospectus for the volumes 15-18. 11 pp. Sewn. A very fine copy. ‎

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