16 VOLUMES WITH 67 FOLDING ENGRAVED PLATES. Nouveau cours complet d'agriculture théorique et pratique contenant la grande et la petite culture, l'économie rurale et domestique, la médecine vétérinaire etc. Dictionnaire raisonné et universel d'agriculture. Ouvrage rédigé sur le plan de celui de feu l'abbé Rozier, duquel on a conservé les articles dont la bonté a été prouvée par l'expérience ; par les membres de la section d'agriculture de l'Institu

Paris: Deterville, 1821-23. New edition, revised, corrected, and enlarged.

A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW OF EUROPEAN AGRICULTURE DURING THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, BY AUTHOR KILLED DURING FRENCH REVOLUTION, ILLUSTRATED WITH 67 FOLDING ENGRAVED PLATES.

16 hardcover volumes, over 500 pages per volume. 8 1/2 inches tall, contemporary 3/4 plum leather with pebbled cloth binding, gilt emblem of Society of Writers to the Signet on each cover, spines gilt, small bookplate to front paste-down of each volume; 67 engraved folding plates in excellent condition. Corners and edges of spine worn, scattered light foxing, overall very good. TEXT IN FRENCH. (truncated) HEAVY SET WILL REQUIRE ADDITIONAL POSTAGE.

FRANCOIS ROZIER (1734 – 1793) was a French botanist and agronomist. Rozier studied in the Jesuit college at Villefranche-sur-Saône and entered the Saint-Irénée seminary in Lyon. He was admitted to the Académie de Lyon. In 1779 he set himself up near Béziers (domaine de Beauséjour) where he edited his Cours complet d'agriculture (twelve volumes, of which nine were by Rozier himself, 1781–1800). In 1786 Rozier became director of Lyon's agriculture school. He returned to Lyon a few years later and assisted in the early stages of the French Revolution, asking the first two assemblies to create a national agriculture school. He became curé constitutionnel of Sainte-Polycarpe parish in Lyon during the Revolution and was killed in his bed by a bomb during the siege of Lyon. The last two volumes of the Cours Complet were published posthumously in 1796 and 1798. Our edition is the second, and contains a list of 650 subscribers at the end of the text.

PROVENANCE: The Society of Writers to Her Majesty's Signet is a private society of Scottish solicitors, dating back to 1594 and part of the College of Justice. (Inventory #: 396)