Reinette du Canada

by Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau

$350 · Offered by Argosy Book Store

Paris: 1768. Fruit Botanical. Stipple engraving with hand coloring. Image measures 12 3/4 x 9 1/2 . Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau 1700-1782 was an engineer, physician and a botanist based in Paris, France. He was commissioned by the French Academy of Sciences in 1728 to investigate a disease that was destroying the saffron plants in Gatinais. His publication of the findings enabled him to become a member and later the president of the Academie

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