Observations sur les bêtes à laine faites dans les environs de Genève pendant vingt ans. (Observations on Sheep, Made in the Vicinity of Geneva Over Twenty Years.)

Description

1st Edition. Hardcover, 8vo. Rebound. Later quarter green stippled cloth over green marbled boards. 20.4×13.5×2.5 cm. Paschoud. Geneve. 1804. 263 pp. + one errata. Very good condition, leading corners lightly bumped and scuffed, light scuffing to marbled cover where the marbled paper meets the leather. Front free and rear pastedowns are heavily wrinkled, with the hinge reinforcement leaving an impression on the back free endpaper. Pages age-toned throughout and somewhat rippled with very light intermittent foxing. French text. An uncommon treatise on on the business of raising sheep in a sturdy late 19th century binding. weight: 0.8 lb.