[No date] In Folio (54 x 71 cm) with 31 large double-page plates. Contemporary 3/4 leather with gilt lettering to spine with raised bands in blind. Boards damp, stained and worn at extremities, marbled endpapers. MS index of 32 plates to prelim. The contents are good and clean, the colours are crisp and bright. Coloured plates in order: 1. Tableau d'Agriculture et d'Instruments Aratoires. Many illustrations of farming and agricultural machines and implements. 2. Tableau de Drainage et Irrigation; including implements, plans, machines, and gauges. 3. Tableau de Tours les Vignobles; including bottles, barrels, glasses, instruments, a map of the wine regions of France, and informative text. 4. Tableau de la Greffe et de la Taille des Arbes Fruitiers; including trees, vines, implements, text information etc. 5. Tableau Synoptique de Sericiculture (vers a soie); including silk-worms, cocoons, moths, helpful implements, and information. 6. Vers a Soire. Especes Nouvellement Acclimatees. 4 species of silk-worms; each illustrated with its own life cycle from egg to worm to cocoon to moth feeding on leaves. Text beneath. 7. Tableau d'Apiculture (Mouches a Miel); including various the 'architecture' of certain bee-hives, utensils, ways of collecting honey, types of honey bee, etc. 8. Pisciculture; including female with eggs, catching the fish, useful implements, types of edible fish, etc. 9. Le Conseiller des Amateurs de Chevaux; including skeleton, muscles, illness, teeth, hooves, horseshoes, legs, text, etc. 10. Le Chien; including 88 different breeds of dogs, skeletons, useful information in the text. 11. Le Veterinaire de la Ferme. Cattle, Goats, Sheep, Donkey. The text includes various illnesses, stable hygiene, castration, etc. 12. Hygiene et Medication de la Basse-Cour. Includes information about Ducks, Pigeons, Rabbits, Pheasants, Farmyard Poultry, Dogs, Pigs, etc. 13. Gibier Domestique et Basse-Cour. Information about Domestic Game, Barnyard Fowl, and Poultry (81 figs). 14. Acclimation. Tableau representant les Animaux, quadrupedes, oiseaux, poissons, insectes, --- Arbes, fruits et vegetaux, propages par la Societe imperiale d'Acclimatation (75 figs). 15. Animaux Utiles a l'Agriculture, etc. Includes: Bats, birds of prey, reptiles, insects, mammals, etc. (139 figs). 16. Histoire Maturelle. Animaux Nuisibles a l'Agriculture, etc. (151 figs) Pests of Animals. 17. Destruction des Animaux et des Insectes Nuisibles. Destruction of Animals and Pests. Including traps, snares, instruments, etc. Shows pests to man, gardens, animals, furniture, and fabrics. 18. Le Parfait Pecheur. Displays: various ways of fishing (sea, rivers, lakes) edible fish, hooks, rods and weights, floats, flies, nets, etc. 19. Le Parfait Chasseur. Displays various ways of hunting (netting, shooting, trapping, with dogs) with illustrations of gun dogs, game birds, useful apparatus, etc. 20. Boucherie. Economie Domestique - Categories. Displays various cuts of beef, sheep, veal, etc. Best cuts of meat on each animal etc. 21. As above but also illustrating offal etc. 22. Tableau de Cosmographie. Includes Eclipses of sun and moon, terrestrial globe, armillary sphere, the seasons, the sytems of Ptolomy, Copernicus, Tycho-Brache, the planets, etc. Tableau de Meteorologie ** [uncoloured]** 23. Tableau Pittoresque des Merveilles de la Nature. (58 figs) Mountains, waterfalls, volcanoes, fossils, caves, dinosaurs, trees, rock formations, etc. 24. Hauteur Comparative des Chutes et Cascades les Plus Remarquables. Illustrations and text concerning the heights and falls of the world's most remarkable waterfalls. 25. Volcans. Many illustrations, tables, text, and a world map depict where the world's volcanoes are situated - both active and extinct. 26. Elements de l'Art Heraldique. Includes Orders of Chivalry, Helmets, Tiaras, Crowns (male and female), types, colours, designs, etc. 27. Armoiries des Departements. (90 heraldic shields) From: Ain to Yonne and Alger. 28. Armoiries des Provinces Francais. Arms des Souverains Francais. Drapeaux. Heraldic shields of the French Provinces, together with those of French Royalty and appropriate Flags etc. 29. Armoiries des Principales Puissances. Arms of all the world's (then) major powers. Includes regions and countries. 30. Pavillons et Cocardes des Nations des Cinq Parties du Monde. Illustrations of the flags and rosettes of the 5 nations of the world. 31. Croix des Ordres Francais et Etrangers. (folding plate) French medals of honour and those of other countries, including Holland, Belgium, Sweden, German states, French Protectorates, etc.