ANONYME [Henri de GOYON DE LA PLOMBANIE]
Mémoire, contenant la manière d'élever les vers à soye
Chez Jean-Florent Baour|à Avignon 1752|17 x 21 cm|broché
Copy in original wrappers without cream interim covers. Manuscript annotation on first endpaper.
Some marginal tears to endpapers which serve as covers.
Presumed author: Henri de Goyon de la Plombanie. In the journal des savans of 1752, article titled: Mémoire sur la manière d'élever les vers à soye.
The first part is a series of advice for successful silkworm breeding; the second consists of observations on the management of silkworms; the last relates a method for harvesting silkworm eggs. Following, a detailed table of the work's contents.
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