76/1607 [Agriculture]. Perthuis (de Laillevault), L. de. Mémoire sur l'art de perfectionner les construction rurales. Paris, Madame Huzard, 1805, 111p., 14 double-p./ fold. engr. plates, contemp. blue wr., sm. 4to.

- A few plates w. large waterstain; contents sl. frayed and dustsoiled along edges.

= First published in volume VII of Memoires de la Societe d'Agriculture the same year and subsequently expanded and published in 1810 as "Traite d'architecture rurale." The plates illustrate plans and designs for farms with different acreages, farm buildings, barns, stables, farm houses, granaries, cellars, labourers' cottages, farm gates, etc.