{"product_id":"vermorel-revue-trimestrielle-1890","title":"Revue trimestrielle de la Station Viticole de Villefranche (Rhône)","description":"\u003cp\u003eRésumé des Travaux des Laboratoires \u0026amp; Champs d'Expériences de M. V. Vermorel en 1889. Quarterly Review of the Viticultural Station of Villefranche (Rhone). Summary of the work of the laboratories and experimental fields of M. V. Vermorel in 1889. 1890 First Edition Pp. [1] f.e., XII, 13-158, [16], plates A-I, [1] r.e. Mâcon Protat Frères Original printed wrappers, soiled and with foxing; upper wrapper with two small ink stains, and a manuscript annotation in pencil \"a conserver - Station ou Papa a travaille longtemps\" (To be kept - office\/station where Father worked for a long time). Both covers have been reattached with museum-grade tape. Interior clean. One lithographic plate in front of the title page. Eleven plates in the end of the volume, some in color lithography, all preserved by protective tissue paper. A good copy. This volume is the first issue of the quarterly sold  at the Station Viticole de Villefranche, the first privately funded viticultural research station in France, founded in 1888 by Victor Vermorel on the property known as Les Roches at Villefranche-sur-Saône. At a moment when French viticulture was emerging from the devastation of phylloxera while confronting a range of secondary insect pests, the publication served at once as the station's report on laboratory and field experiments and as a contribution to applied entomological science. The station joined chemical and microbiological work to field trials, framing insect study not as abstract natural history but as an urgent agricultural problem. Subscription was fixed at 20 francs per annum, with exchange copies offered to all agricultural stations and schools, underscoring its intended place within a wider scientific and agronomic network.  The volume opens with a black\/white lithographic image of the Laboratoire and a description of the station at Villefranche, followed by a letter dated Paris, 12 January 1890, in which Dr. Émile Guyot endorses Vermorel’s program, commending the union of laboratory science with practical field observation. The text is then organised around two principal studies. The first, Contributions à l’étude du Gribouri, examines Bromius obscurus, correcting the misconception that its larvae feed on leaves rather than roots. The second, more extensive, La Cochylis, constitutes a full monograph on Eupoecilia ambiguella, tracing its history, distribution, and life cycle, and situating it within both classical agronomic literature and modern viticultural practice. Vermorel discusses methods of control, including mechanical and chemical approaches, and illustrates his patented Décortiqueur Vermorel. The closing sections gather an extensive multilingual bibliography, a departmental register of correspondents reporting infestations, and a brief note on the hybrid rootstock Solonis Feytel. The plates constitute a substantial and carefully conceived apparatus of observation, uniting didactic clarity with scientific precision. Executed in both color and line, they render the successive states of the insects with notable exactitude, from ovum to larval and chrysalid forms, while also documenting the visible effects of infestation upon the vine. Particular attention is given to the conditions of experimentation: trellised enclosures, glass vessels, and other contrivances are depicted with an technical sobriety, allowing the reader to reconstruct the procedures adopted at the station. The visual program extends further to the microhabitats of the species, illustrating the concealed refuges of the chrysalis within bark and old wood, as well as the presence of parasitic predators. Complementing these analytical images, three plans presents the experimental vineyards, delineated with cartographic care and drawn to scale, thereby situating the entomological inquiry within its precise agricultural context. A nicely illustrated study of wine and its insects, born in France's first privately funded vine laboratory at a moment when viticulture itself was fighting for survival.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48097366868203,"sku":"137-1890--220-40-46121.6402777778","price":377000.0,"currency_code":"KRW","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/00137_IMG_7783copy.jpg?v=1776192563","url":"https:\/\/fenicebooks.com\/en-kr\/products\/vermorel-revue-trimestrielle-1890","provider":"La Fenice Antiquaria","version":"1.0","type":"link"}