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Silkworm farming COSSU (Giuseppe): *Moriografia sarda, ossia…
See original version (French)
178
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Silkworm farming COSSU (Giuseppe): *Moriografia sarda, ossia…
See original version (French)
Estimate €50 - €100
Voluntary lot
Description
Silkworm farming COSSU (Giuseppe): *Moriografia sarda, ossia catechismo gelsario proposto per ordine del Regno governo alli possessari di terre* ….
Cagliari, at the Royal Printing House, 1788, in-8, 255 pp.
Frontispiece and 1 plate, out of text. A rare work commissioned by the Royal Government to promote the rearing of silkworms (filugelli) in Sardinia. Text in Italian and Sardinian side by side, to make it accessible to farm labourers….
Followed by: Instructions on how to cultivate mulberry trees. The whole translated from the original French by Cavalieri Constans de Castellet. Turin, Soffietti, 1778, frontispiece and 190 pp.
Set of 2 works bound in 1 8vo volume in 19th-century marbled half-basane
A small loss of leather at the top of the spine; otherwise a fine copy
See original version (French)
Auto-translation. Refer to original language for legal validity.
Ref. : 606348 - 50
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