Directions for Cultivating the Crambe Maritima, or Sea Kale, for the use of the Table.
Directions for Cultivating the Crambe Maritima, or Sea Kale, for the use of the Table.
Mode de Paiement
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Détails
- Auteur
- Curtis (William)
- Éditeurs
- London: Printed by Stephen Couchman, 1799.
- Thème
- GASTRONOMY COOKERY CULTIVATION VEGETABLES
Description
First edition, 8vo (194 x 122 mm), 18pp., one hand-coloured engraved plate, later brown morocco, title stamped in gilt on upper cover, a nice copy. Crambe Maritima is related to the cabbage and was first cultivated as a vegetable towards the end of the eighteenth-century. William Curtis (1746-1799) was the first to publish a tract about his experiments of growing the plant as a vegetable crop, this was issued shortly before his death and is extremely rare. Provenance: Rothamsted Research Institute Library, with just a neat circular stamp to front paste-down. Henrey, 593; ESTC & JISC locating just 5 copies: BL and Natural History Museum in the UK; University of Chicago, Harvard University Oakes Ames Library and Cornell University in North America.; Rothamsted Catalogue, p.43.
