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Agriculture Art de faire Éclore les Poulets How toHatch Chicken Eggs. Encyclopédie ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences des arts et des métiers. Plates vol. 1
122538Paris 1762. Folio 253 x 393 mm. 3 pages of descriptive text & 3 loose plates. Slight browning tomargins a little spotting otherwise very good. § The 3 plates and descriptive text for the entry of Agriculture Art de Faire Éclore les Poulets from volume I of plates. Plates are numbered 1-3.3 pages 200-202 from volume XIII of the Encyclopédie 1765 including PouletsWith some browning to a few leaves.This examination of chickens and the hatching of their eggs follows closely the incubation and development of the young bird. The plates included detailed diagrams of an eighteenth-century incubator and hatchery. The suite is accompanied by an article on the chicken and its early growth also focusing closely on the methods and equipment used by the Egyptians. The research and writings of Melchisédech Thévenot M.Granger and Le P. Sicard are also explored and compared in this paper contributed by Chevalier Louis de Jaucourt the most prolific of the Encyclopédists. unknown books
