DUPUY, Dominique (abbé). - Traité de la greffe des Arbres fr - Lot 36

DUPUY, Dominique (abbé). - Traité de la greffe des Arbres fruitiers et spécialement de la greffe des boutons à fruit. Avec 24 planches lithographiées - Paris, Auch, Librairie centrale d'agriculture, Brun, 1859 - In-12, 220 pp, 24 plates h.t., brown half-chagrin, ribbed spine decorated with gilt fillets and caissons (period binding). Original edition with 24 hors-texte plates showing 151 technical figures. History of grafting - Physiology of grafting - Advantages - Instruments - Nursery - Description of various types of grafts - Various species of grafts from buds to fruit, etc. Abbé Dominique Dupuy (Lectoure, Gers, 1812-1885) was a professor of horticulture and a member of the Société d'agriculture et d'horticulture du Gers. In addition to his interesting monograph on grafting, he published a Florule du département du Gers in 1847. A good copy of this uncommon work, with a few brown spots.