TRAITE DE LA POMME DE TERRE;; sa culture, ses divers emplois dans les preparations alimentaires, les arts economiques, la fabrication du sirop, de l'eau-de-vie, de la potasse, etc.
Paris: Chez Thomine, 1826. First edn. 8vo, pp. viii, 160. Illustrated with three engraved plates, lightly foxed with a very small worm hole along the tail, but a crisp clean copy bound in contemporary quarter morocco, with a later bookplate. Item #16928
An uncommon work on the potato written by two agricultural chemists. The treatise includes a history of the plant, the best methods of cultivation, how to cook, extracting the starch and notes on fermentation and distillation. The apparatus needed for this process is illustrated in one of the plates. Payen taught at the Ecole Central des Arts et Manufactures and later at the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers and wrote a large number of agricultural works. He is best remembered for his work on carbohydrates and starch. Chevallier's fame rests on his successful application of his chemical expertise to a variety of public health issues (DSB).
Price: $400.00