L'art de cultiver les muriers blancs, d'élever les vers à soye, et de tirer la soye des cocons

First edition, rare, illustrated with 5 folding plates at the end.
Contemporary full marbled brown calf binding. Spine with raised bands, gilt tooling. Beige morocco title-piece. One corner trimmed, the others rubbed. A tiny 2 mm tear at head of spine. A small worm gallery in the lower margin from the title-page to p. 24, slight at the beginning, widening and then fading out. A good, rather clean copy.
Red stamp on half-title and title-page, with the arms: Bibliothèque Chapuys-Montlaville

The treatise is divided into three parts: I. Treatise on white mulberries II. Treatise on silkworms III. Treatise on silk reeling.