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HISTOIRE ABREGEE DE INSECTES QUI SE TROUVENT AUX ENVIRONS DE PARIS; Dans laquelle ces Animaux sont ranges suivant un ordre methodique. Volume one only of two volumes

Geoffroy, Etienne Louis (1725-1810)

Paris, France: Durand, 1762. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto (4to). Very good- condition. Item #006680

[iv], xxviii, 523 pages of text.The first volume only of a set. Original full leather binding is intact, but is quite worn with defects to leather including significant loss of leather to edges due to insect loss, not affecting text or plates, though there are two tiny worm holes bore all the way through near where the inner margin is attached to the binding. Illustrated with a folding table and ten black & white folding plates. A bit of damp-staining to bottom edge of margin of final plate. Text is in French.

Price: $350.00