PARMENTIER, Antoine-Auguste (1737-1813),... - Lot 301 - Gros & Delettrez

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PARMENTIER, Antoine-Auguste (1737-1813),... - Lot 301 - Gros & Delettrez
PARMENTIER, Antoine-Auguste (1737-1813), French agronomist, pharmacist and botanist, great promoter of the potato & Jean-François COSTE (1741-1819), French military physician and botanist, great promoter of the rhubarb. Set of 7 documents. 1792 and 1793. Important file dedicated to the establishment of rhubarb cultivation in France, with the help of Parmentier. -6 documents of which two (identical) are in Coste's hand. 32 pp folio. File devoted to his rhubarb plantations and his requests for compensation "for an enterprise so useful to hospitals, medicine, the preservation and improvement of livestock, dyes [...] for the large-scale exploitation of this beautiful establishment [...]". Document entitled : Importation de la Rhubarbe en France (13 pp.) ; Report concerning Mr. Coste (13 pp.) : " on the plantation of rhubarb that he imported in France " " We observe first of all that there are in the trade three kinds of rhubarb : namely that of Chinese Tartary, known under the name of Rheum Palmatum of Linnée ; it is the first species the most perfect ; it comes to us from Tartary by Russia. The second species is the rhubarb of the Levant & the third is the one that comes to us from Kanton. The trade in Levantine rhubarb, which ranks second, is in the hands of the Venetians and the Marseillois; the merchants choose the finest pieces to mix with Rheum Palmatum; and they increase their profits considerably by this fraud. Finally, Kanton rhubarb is the least expensive of the three types [...]". Long presentation of these different races, their use and the means of transforming them, their properties, followed by the explanation of Coste's cultivation undertaken for 15 years "Rhubarb imported by Coste is naturalized at [the castle of] Gros-Bois, then in Laÿ where he has formed considerable plantations [...]". Description of the chemical analyses made by Lunel at the Jardin des Plantes, Jussieu, Duhamel, etc. Fascinating. -1 L.A.S. from his main supporter, the famous Antoine Augustin Parmentier (1737-1813), promoter of the potato " Would you kindly take care of Mr. Coste's report ". Attached 4 old photos of the Parmentier monument in Montdidier.
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