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Louis LIGER

La Nouvelle maison rustique ou économie générale de tous les biens de campagne : la manière de les entretenir & de les multiplier

Chez Claude Prudhomme, à Paris 1732, In-4 (20x26cm), (14) 970pp. et (6) 971pp. (1), 2 volumes reliés.

Fourth illustrated edition of 40 figures (11 for the first volume and 19 for the second) sometimes unfolding.
Binding brown sheepskin of the time. Back with five nerves adorned with pieces of red morocco.
The agronomist Louis Liger is known for his many theoretical publications related to the different fields of agriculture, science scorned and unknown in his time. He mainly drew the material from his New Rustic House in the Rustic House of Charles Estienne and Jean Liébault; he reviews all areas relating to domestic life: the farmyard, bees, horses, livestock, agriculture, ponds and rivers, fruit trees, pruning and transplantation, the vegetable garden, the vine, etc. The fourth book ends with a multitude of cooking recipes, from all sorts of stews to the most whimsical jams. The book is embellished with many detailed planks on the different techniques or tools used in each pan of agriculture. The book was a great success and no less than thirteen editions, the last of which dates from 1804. The work of Ligier will even be hailed in the article "Agriculture" of the Encyclopedia of Diderot, which raises the agronomist to the rank of great contributor to the progress of agriculture, "first of all the arts".

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