Handsome copy of this uncommon 1835 first American edition, with new brown sprinkled calf binding, new endpapers, hand sewn headbands, red leather label. Mild foxing on first 5 leaves, text otherwise clean and unmarked.

First published in French in 1823. Covers all that was then known about soil chemistry, fertilizers, plant composition, food preservation and distillation, extracting chemicals from plants, etc.