French naval engineer, botanist and agronomist (1700-1782)

Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau. Etching.

Ambrosia altera.

Mémoires sur les os, pour servir de réponse aux objections proposées contre le sentiment de M. Duhamel du Monceau ... avec les mémoires de MM. Haller & Bordenave / [Auguste Denis Fougeroux de Bondaroy].

2 unnumbered leaves, lxxxii, 420 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf, 16 folded leaves of plates : illustrations (copper engravings) ; (4vo )

Des semis et plantations des arbres, et de leur culture ou Méthodes pour multiplier et élever les arbres les planter en massifs & en avenues; former les forêts & les bois; les entretenir, & rétablir ceux qui sont dégradés: faisant partie du Traité complet des bois et des forêts / Par M. Duhamel du Monceau.

The elements of agriculture . By M. Duhamel du Monceau. Of the Royal Academy of Sciences in France, and Fellow of the Royal Society in London, &c. &c. &c. Translated from the original French, and revised by Philip Miller, F.R.S. Gardener to the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries at Chelsea, and Member of the Botanick Academy at Florence. In two volumes. .... Illustrated with fourteen copper-plates.

xxiv, 491 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves : plates (some folded) ; (4to)

A practical treatise of husbandry: wherein are contained many useful and valuable experiments and observations in the new husbandry ... Also the approved practice of the best English farmers in the old method of husbandry / [M. Duhamel du Monceau].

6 unnumbered pages, 314 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, III folded leaves of plates : illustrations (engravings) ; 18 cm (12mo)

Histoire d'un insecte qui devore les grains de l'Angoumois : avec les moyens que l'on peut employer pour le détruire / Par MM. Duhamel du Monceau & Tillet.

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Mémoires sur les os, pour servir de réponse aux objections proposées contre le sentiment de M. Duhamel du Monceau ... avec les mémoires de MM. Haller & Bordenave / [Auguste Denis Fougeroux de Bondaroy].

A practical treatise of husbandry: wherein are contained many useful and valuable experiments and observations in the new husbandry ... Also the approved practice of the best English farmers in the old method of husbandry / [M. Duhamel du Monceau].

Histoire d'un insecte qui devore les grains de l'Angoumois : avec les moyens que l'on peut employer pour le détruire / Par MM. Duhamel du Monceau & Tillet.

Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau. Etching.