769 pages, plus blanks and index at end, 4to (190 x 146mm). In French. Written in a small neat cursive in dark brown ink. Illustrated with ca 70 pen-and-ink drawings in text (one full-page hand-colored garden plan); numerous tables. Bound in contemporary French quarter sheep (joints repaired). Provenance: “Lizot” (name gilt-lettered at foot of spine).

 

A manuscript copy of an unidentified work on a wide-range of subjects, including horticulture, botany, floriculture, propagation, farm production and equipment, nutrition, zoologie and human anatomy. It may have been transcribed a Lizot, whose name appears on the spine.