Traite Du Vin Et Du Sidre.

LE PAULMIER, Julien.

$600.00

Item Number: 110190

Rouen: H. Lestringant, 1896.

Rare Societe des Bibliophiles Normands Limited Edition reissue of Le Paulmier’s foundational work on pomology. Octavo, original wrappers, one of only 200 copies printed, this is number 65. Translated into the French by Jacques Cahaignes. Introduction by Emile Travers. In very good condition.

Born in 1520 on the Cotentin peninsula in Normandy, Dr. Julien le Paulmier was summoned to the Court of the King while working as a professor at the University of Paris to care for King Charles IX and Prince Henri III. In 1585, as a reward for his work he was enobled lands on the western border of the Pays d’Auge where he later devoted his life to pomology and published the first treatise on cider, De Vino et Pomaceo, later translated as Traite Du Vin Et Du Sidre.