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Couverture souple. Zustand: Bon état. In-8 broché, XXVI- 396 pp. Photographies dans le texte. Bon exemplaire.

FIRST EDITION. Slim 4to. (24 x 18.5 cm). pp.[iii]+75+[1, colophon]. Publisher's original green wrappers. Folding map to rear showing the distribution of date palms in Mesopotamia and 54 black & white photographic plates. Provenance: From the author's personal collection. Valentine Hugh Wilfred Dowson (1896-1980) was an army intelligence office and authority on date cultivation. His treatise on date cultivation, which is Vol.1 of a planned three volume work (Vol.2 was published in 1922 and is extremely scarce; Vol.3 was never printed), was published as part of the Agricultural Directorate of Mesopotamia (Memoir III), a series of highly specialised pamphlets focusing on agricultural development, soil studies, and crop cultivation in post-WWI Mesopotamia. Dowson's treatise contains information on cultivation, soil, tillage, subsidiary crops, irrigation, pruning, fertilisation, ripening, harvesting, propagation, marketing, uses of the date palm and its products, diseases, and a chapter dedicated to the vocabulary of terms used in date culture.…