Second edition. viii 303 (1). BOUND WITH Supplement au Memoire de M. Parmentier sur le Mais (ou Plutot Maiz); par M. le Comte Francois de Neufchateau. Paris: Madame Huzard, 1817. Pp 420. First edition. Later (twentieth century) good quality pale morocco on marbled boards, marbled endpapers, edges specked. Slight occasional foxing, otherwise in very good condition. Very nice example of Parmentier s important work, with the very rare supplement (copies in the UK only in the Royal Society and the Natural History Museum).