Histoire abrégée des insectes qui se trouvent aux environs de Paris, édition originale
GEOFFROY (Etienne-Louis)
Paris - Durand - 1762
- Format : In-4
- Number of volumes : 2 tomes.
- Binding : Related.
- Collation : Tome 1: XXVIII, 523pp., 10 pl., 1 tabl. ; Tome II : 690 pp. 12 pl.
Full period marbled calf binding. Spine with naves decorated with golden boxes with red title piece and black tomaison piece. Small lack of leather at the top of a dish.
ORIGINAL EDITION illustrated with 22 folding sheets and a table.
The author classifies insects according to the presence or absence, number, shape and texture of the wings...
Geoffroy proposes six orders of insects : beetles, hemiptera, floury-winged tetraptera, bare-winged tetraptera, diptera and aptera.
Very nice set.
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