SIEUVRE (Lazare). Memoir and journal of observations... Lot 241

SIEUVRE (Lazare). Memoir and journal of observations and experiments on the means of guaranteeing olives from the sting of insects. New method to extract a more abundant and finer oil, by the invention of a domestic mill, with the way to guarantee it from any rancidity. Paris, Michel Lambert, 1769. In-12 of (2) ff. n. ch., 126 pp, (1) f. n. ch., 3 folding plates. Bound in contemporary basane, smooth spine decorated. First edition complete with the 3 plates collected in fine. Defects to the binding, title-piece partly missing, spidering on the spines and the upper board, light stains on the back of the last map and on the privilege leaf, the latter also restored in the margin.