Mark antony

1848 · ref. 27 — Rare collection of treatises on wine making and vine cultivation Puvis Marc-Antoine. De la culture de la vigne et de la fabrication du vin / par M.A. Puvis. Paris : Librairie agricole Dusacq Mme Bouchard-Huzard 1848. bound with: Puvis Marc-Antoine. Des différens moyens d'amender le sol. Paris : Madame Huzard 1837 bound with: Thackeray Thomas James. Observations sur le fumier de basse-cour les engrais artificiels la construction des granges et le labourage profond. Paris : A LA LIBRAIRIE AGRICOLE DE Ve BOUCHARD-HUZARD 7 RUE DE L'ÉPRON-ST-ANDRÉ. 1847. Extremely rare collection of treatises on wine making and vine cultivation agricultural technique on different ways of fertilizing the soil and on different kinds of natural and artificial fertilizers. De la culture de la vigne et de la fabrication du vin is the most important opera written by the renowned agronomist and member of parliament Marc-Antoine Puvis 1776-1851 member of the Ain Agricultural Society discussing the importance of wine making and vine cultivation in France the influence of climate and soil different vineyards Côte-d'Or Hermitage influence of the grapes quality on the quality of the wines search for new varieties of vines by the seedlings plantation of the vine size and disbudding proving and uprooting fertilizers and amendments synonymy and variety of grapes. The second part pp. 167 to 308 is entirely dedicated to oenology harvesting de-stemming and crushing hydrometer oenometer production of red wines and white wines conservation and clarification of the wines conditioning and improvement bouquet and flavor; comparative analysis of Burgundy wines etc. Marc-Antoine Puvis is also the author of the second treatise dealing with different kind of techniques of fertilizing the soil. Among the different techniques an material used to amend the soil he describes liming or treating the soil with lime to reduce acidity and improve fertility or oxygen levels. marling using a friable earthy deposit consisting of clay and calcium carbonate used especially as a fertilizer for soils deficient in lime faluner to amend poor limestone soil with falun a sedimentary rock made up of shells debris the use of ash peat ash kelp sea fertilizer land mix burnt clay or burning the soil The third treatise written by Thomas James Thackeray renowned British playwright army officer and agriculturist can be considered a manual on benefits and way of use of different fertilizers as: cattle droppings horse urine cow dung guano peat bran marl salpetre and nitrate of potash sulphate of ammonia etc. All the treatise included in the present collection are very rare. In detail: Vol 1: Only one copy in Italian Libraries. WoldCat records only 6 other copies; 5 in France and 1 in UK. the copy in Cornell University belongs to a different editio with no date or printing place Vol 2: 4 copies worldwide 2 each in France and Switzerland Vol 3: 6 copies worldwide 4 in France 1 each in UK and Canada. Bibliography: Bourquelot VI. 94. Unkwnown to Vicaire Bitting. Oberlé Bouchard-Huzard