Agriculture & Husbandry. [Liger (Louis)], La nouvelle Ma...

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Agriculture & Husbandry. [Liger (Louis)], La nouvelle Maison Rustique, ou Économie générale de tous les biens de campagne; la manière de les entretenir & de les multiplier; donnée ci-devant au public par le Sieur Liger, two-volume set, tenth edition, Paris: Chez la veuve Desaint, 1775, half-titles, 34 engraved plates, contemporary mottled calf gilt, worn, splits, bumps, and chips, marbled endpapers, 4to, (2). 

The Maison Rustique is an encyclopaedia of rural and agricultural life; it includes a chapter on bees and also includes information on gardens and how to design them, farmyards, horses, harvests, species of trees and shrubs, cooking, vines, fishing and hunting, etc.