HEUZÉ, Gustave. Food Plants. Atlas. Containing 102 life-size - Lot 201

HEUZÉ, Gustave. Food Plants. Atlas. Containing 102 life-size cereal ears. Paris, Librairie Agricole de la Maison Rustique, n.d. [1873]. Quarto, green half-basane, spine with raised bands highlighted by gold garlands. 2 unnumbered folios and 36 plates. Spine sun-faded, with two classification labels at the top and bottom; top cap partially missing; binding scuffed. The atlas alone, in its first edition, contains 36 plates based on drawings by L. Rouyer and engraved on steel by M. Davesne: wheat, rye, oats, and corn. Gustave Heuzé (1816–1907), an agronomist, spent most of his life in the Île-de-France region: director of the Grandjouan farm, professor at the National School of Agriculture in Grignon, and later at the Paris Agronomic Institute. Plates in good condition.