BOISSIER DE SAUVAGES, Mémoires sur l'éducation des vers a soie, 1763
BOISSIER DE SAUVAGES, (Abbé).
Mémoires sur l'éducation des vers à soie.
Nismes, Gaude, 1763.
Six parts in one 12mo (190x115 mm), (2)-xvi-132-(2)-148-(1)-(2)-192-(1)-128-38-(3)-8-(3) pages. binding : Contemporary green hardcovers, flat spine.
First edition. Collection of six works on the subject of silkworms by Abbé Boissier de Sauvages, containing three memoirs on the education of silkworms, the cultivation of mulberry trees, the observation on the origin of honey, the catalogue of authors who have written on silkworms.