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Histoire abrégée des Insectes, Dans laquelle ces Animaux sont rangés suivant un ordre methodique. Tome I-II

by Geoffroy, E.L.

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  • Catalogue No : 32947
  • Published : 1764
  • Cover : Hardback
  • Pages : (4), xxviii, 523; (4), 690
  • Publisher : Durand
  • Published In : Paris
  • Illustrations : 22 folding engraved plates, folding table

Description:

Text French. 2nd edition (first published anonymously in 1762), with the author's name given on title page, and the words 'que se trouvent aux environs de Paris' ommitted from the title, otherwise identical with the first edition. Rare. Étienne Louis Geoffroy [1727-1810] was a French entomologist and pharmacist.

Horn-Schenkling, 7523; Nissen ZBI, 1522.

Condition

2 vols, 4to, cont. mottled calf, corners neatly restored, professional repair to head of one spine, raised bands, gilt tooling to compartments, marbled endpapers, all edges tinted red. Decorative book-plates by A.F. Schoy. Small decorative, contemporary bookseller's ticket to endpaper of Vol. 1, with inscription within cartouche reading, 'Se Vend chez Carré de la Rue Libraire Grand Place a Lille'. Short marginal tear to one leaf, repaired. A handsome set.

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