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Title: Traité des Arbres Fruitiers Tome I
Author: Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau
Description:Quarto. Volume one of two. Hand-colored etched frontispiece in volume one, drawn by Jacques de Sève and etched by Nicolas de Launay; printer's device on title-pages and head- and tail-pieces throughout; 180 hand-colored engraved and etched plates after drawings by Claude Aubriet, Magdeleine Basseporte, and Rene Le Berryais. Contemporary red morocco; gilt spines; a.e.g.; gilt coat of arms on covers; bound for the royal librarian, Jérome Frédéric Bignon. Spine height: 13 ˝ inches. Bookplate: Arpad Plesch (in volume I).
Title: Traité des Arbres Fruitiers Tome II
Author: Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau
Description:Quarto. Volume two of two. Hand-colored etched frontispiece in volume one, drawn by Jacques de Sève and etched by Nicolas de Launay; printer's device on title-pages and head- and tail-pieces throughout; 180 hand-colored engraved and etched plates after drawings by Claude Aubriet, Magdeleine Basseporte, and Rene Le Berryais. Contemporary red morocco; gilt spines; a.e.g.; gilt coat of arms on covers; bound for the royal librarian, Jérome Frédéric Bignon. Spine height: 13 ˝ inches. Bookplate: Arpad Plesch (in volume I).
 
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