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MALOUIN (Paul-Jacques). Description and details of the arts of the miller, the vermiculist, and the baker. With an abbreviated history of baking, and a dictionary of these arts. S.l., s.n. (Paris, Académie des Sciences), 1767. In-folio, brown calf, smooth spine decorated, red title page (Binding of the period). iv and 340 pp. with 10 numbered plates. Second edition of this essay composed for La Description des Arts et métiers, de l'Académie des Sciences. Ordinary physician of the queen, professor of chemistry at the King's Garden, Malouin (1701-1778) contributed numerous articles to Diderot's Encyclopedia and Panckoucke's Encyclopedia. Mottling, stains. Binding restored. Vicar, 554.