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TESSIER, Henri Alexandre. Traité des maladies des grains. 1783.
TESSIER, Henri Alexandre.
Traité des maladies des grains.
Paris, Veuve Herissant, 1783.
8vo (190x120 mm), viii-351 pages and 6 folding plates (sur 7). binding : Contemporary full calf, gilt flat spine. Binding rubbed, little los of leather on second cover (handwritten note on it), corners slightly bumped, tail cap worn. Few foxings, a little hole in the tail of the first leaves. The last plates is missing (p.336).
First edition.
Tessier (1741-1837), French doctor and agronomist was sent by Necker in 1777 to Sologne to study the epidemics of ergotism which had been raging there for several years. This disease due to the development of ergot (fungus) on the ears of rye decimated herds and caused dry gangrene in Solognot peasants. Tessier therefore became a specialist in these diseases and entered the Academy of Sciences.
The supply of grains (wheat, barley, rye, oats ...) is a strategic problem of the end of the 18th century in France which will experience in particular the famines of 1776, 1782, 1788.
Price : 250 €
European VAT number: FR87515091171
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