serres olivier seigneur pradel (4 résultats)

Etat : Used: Like New. Genève, Chouët, 1639, gr. in-8, reliure plein cuir d'époque, dernière édition, 16 ff. - 878 pp.+ table. Complet de ses 15 figures in texte et de sa planches dépliante. Etat général bon, usures reliure, manquent coiffes avec minimes manque cuir dos, accroc plat sup., pages de gardes manquantes, pages quelque peu brunis, sinon bon.

Couverture rigide. Etat : bon. RO40099286: 1700 (env.). In-8. Relié plein cuir. Etat passable, Plats abîmés, Dos abîmé, Déchirures. 878 pages. Bandeaux décoratifs et lettrines en tête de certains chapitres. Culs-de-lampe noirs en fin de certains chapitres. Illustré de gravures en noir et blanc dans le texte et hors texte. Dos à nerfs. Annotations d'époque au dos des plats: 'Ce livre appartient à François Bessière du Gornac, fait le 1er août 1707'. Titre et caissons dorés, anciennement sur le dos. Ouvrage très abîmé: manques importants en coiffes de tête et de pied; restant de la coiffe de pied se détachant; manques sur les coins du 1er plat; manque sur un coin supérieur du 2d plat; plats se détachant; 2 premiers feuillets très abîmés, avec moitiés manquantes; 6 feuillets suivants très abîmés, avec manques, et détachés; 5 derniers feuillets de l'ouvrage (Table) très abîmés; planche anciennement dépliable entre les pages 540 et 541 à moitié manquante; restant de l'ouvrage très lisible, avec quelques rousseurs et de légères mouillures. . . . Classification Dewey : 630-Agriculture et techniques connexes.

4to. (12 9/6 x 7 3/4 inches). First edition. Engraved title by Karel van Mallery, dedication, preface [x pp.], [2 pp.], 1,004 pp., index [xviii pp.], colophon page. With 8 woodcut vignettes as headings to each book, 16 woodcut illustrations of parterres, woodcut decorations and initials. All pages present, pairs of gatherings signed 'R' and 'Q', 'Z' and 'Y', 5V and 5T are in switched positions. Contemporary manuscript annotations on pp. 104-105, 130, and the last page of the index. Marginal restoration to the colophon and final blank leaves. 18th-century calf, spine with raised bands, gilt; red morocco lettering piece Rare first edition of the first great French treatise on agronomy, one of the major treatises of the Renaissance. Olivier de Serres' Theatre d'Agriculture, provides a comprehensive exploration of various facets of the rural economy. Encompassing ploughing, vine growing, wine making, animal husbandry, food preparation, gardening, and even dedicating a chapter to hunting and "other honest exercises of the gentleman"; the work emerges as a rich compendium of agricultural knowledge. A Protestant gentleman born in 1539 in Ardèche, de Serres would go on to be hailed as the father of French agronomy. With unwavering dedication, he transformed his Pradel estate into a model farm through years of research and experimentation.Theatre d'Agriculture serves as a culmination of his efforts, overflowing with innovative ideas infused with a political determination to revitalize the Kingdom's economy, which had suffered greatly during the French Wars of Religion. Never losing sight of the national interest, de Serres hoped to convince fellow gentlemen and landowners to take care of their land themselves. Thus, over a period of thirty years, he dedicated his spare time to penning the present work, meticulously covering all aspects of agriculture: from land management, clearing, and drainage, to the cultivation of wheat, wine, cattle, barnyard animals, gardens, water, wood, and domestic recipes. Significantly, this magnum opus, played a pivotal role in introducing and promoting new crops such as hops, corn, beets, mulberries, and potatoes to the region. De Serres dedicated the present work to Henri IV, a monarch who swiftly grasped the potential of this book as a tool for pacifying minds and reviving the Kingdom's economy. It is said that the King would have a few pages read to him every day after his dinner. The work's usefulness, coupled with royal patronage and its innovative character, contributed to its immense and lasting success, evident from the numerous editions published in the first half of the seventeenth century. Brun, p. 292; Pritzel, 8630; Thiébaud, 840; Kress, 236; Mortimer French, 494; Simon, Bibliotheca Bacchica, II, 619; Vicaire, pp. 788-89; Wheaton p.227; Bitting p. 428.

Finely engraved architectural title-page by Mallery with Henri IV seated on his throne in a garden, eight fine woodcut vignettes, fine woodcut initials, and 13 large woodcuts in Chapters XIII & XIV. 9 p.l., 3-1004, [20] pp. Folio, 18th cent. mottled calf (minor scuffing to binding extremities), spine gilt, contrasting lettering piece on spine. Paris: J. Metayer, 1600. First edition of the first great French work on agronomy - in its widest sense - to be published. In this book, Serres devotes substantial sections to hunting, cookery, practical medicine, irrigation, forestry, viticulture, vegetable gardening, medicinal plants, fruit trees, silk cultivation, the management of servants, etc., etc. The author also discusses the duties of the mistress of the house and remedies for all manner of diseases suffered by men and animals. The work is divided into eight books, one of which is devoted entirely to wine and the culture of the grape. At the head of each book is a pretty woodcut vignette (145 x 68 mm.) enclosed within an ornamental border. These show various scenes on the estate: cows, the dairy, etc.; in the next ploughing and sowing are in progress; the third illustrates viticulture and the wine press; others show milking scenes, bee-hives, landscape gardening, forestry, and at the end a hunting scene with falcons. Serres (1539-1619), a Protestant, took part in the religious struggles in his native Vivarais. After 1573, he retired to his family's property of Pradel where for more than a quarter of a century he tried to revive the estate. It was there that he wrote this great book, based on his own experience and on the classical texts concerning agriculture. Henri IV also had taken a strong interest in the economic regeneration of France and the present work became, in effect, a manifesto for the King's new policies. Serres became a royal counselor in 1599 and advised Henri IV on various agricultural and economic projects. A very good and fresh copy. Minor foxing and a few unimportant marginal dampstains. Single tiny wormhole in lower margin of first third of book. ? En Français dans le Texte 79. Simon, Bibliotheca Bacchica, II, 619. Vicaire, pp. 788-89.