SIRA-KAWA. Treatise on the education of silkworms in Japan. - Lot 212

SIRA-KAWA. Treatise on the education of silkworms in Japan. Paris, Maisonneuve, 1868. In-8, VIII-LVIII-(2)-171-(1) p., color frontispiece and 12 numbered plates, table, contemporary half morocco, ribbed spine, gilt head, untrimmed (small rubs to headpieces and nerves; qq. russets). € Second revised and corrected French edition of Léon de Rosny's translation, first published the same year (1868). I. Traité de la culture des mûriers ; II. Treatise on the education of silkworms; Appendix. Extracts from various Japanese authors on mulberry trees and silkworms; Report to His Excellency the Minister of Agriculture. The illustration includes a color frontispiece and 12 numbered plates with explanations. Léon de Rosny (1837-1914), orientalist and ethnographer, was co-founder of the Société d'ethnographie (1859), professor of Japanese at the Bibliothèque impériale (1861), interpreter for the Japanese embassy in France, then Holland, England, Prussia and Russia (1862), holder of the chair of Japanese at the Ecole spéciale des langues orientales (1868), professor of ethnography at the Collège de France. Handwritten bookplate. (Cordier, Japonica, 531).