PARMENTIER (Antoine-Augustin). Traité sur la culture et les usages des pommes de terre, de la patate, et du topinambour. Paris: Barrois l'aîné, 1789. - In-8, red morocco, boards framed with three gilded fillets and Phrygian bonnets at the corners and center, ribbed spine decorated on the caissons with a tower surrounded by cannons, gilded head, untrimmed (modern pastiche binding). First edition of the most important treatise on potatoes by the famous pharmacist and agronomist Antoine-Augustin Parmentier (1737-1813). It is divided into 5 chapters: "De la culture des Pommes de terre", "Des Pommes de terre considérées relativement à leur conservation", "Des Pommes de terre considérées relativement à la nourriture", "De la Patate", "Du Topinambour." A good copy in a modern pastiche binding, which the binder has decorated with revolutionary attributes. Some light spotting. Provenance: Émile Liez (18..-after 1930), hat maker and collector, with ex-libirs.