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[AGRICULTURE]
BOISSIER de SAUVAGES (Abbot, of the Royal Society of Sciences of Montpellier):
Memoirs on the rearing of silkworms, divided into three parts, with a Treatise on the cultivation of mulberry trees, and one on the origin of honey.
At Nîmes. Published by Gaude, bookseller, 1763.
Large 8vo. Contemporary full binding in fawn-coloured, grained sheepskin. Ribbed spine, decorated with fleurons and gilt metalwork. Mottled edges. Foxing on the title page.
First treatise: On the hatching of the seed. 8 pp., XVI, 132 pages.
Second treatise: On the rearing of silkworms proper, from their birth up to the ‘grande Fréze’ stage exclusively. 148 pp. and 2 unnumbered pp.
Third treatise: 190 pages.
On the cultivation of mulberry trees: 128 pages.
Observations on the origin of honey: 38 pages.
See original version (French)
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