Réaumur - Lot 64

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Réaumur - Lot 64
Réaumur Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des insectes. Paris, Imprimerie royale, 1734-1742. 6 vol. in-4. Full contemporary brown calf, spine ribbed and ornamented, with tan morocco title-pieces. Original edition of this founding work of entomological science, recognized for its great accuracy. The illustration includes 267 folding plates engraved in intaglio by Haussard, Lucas, Filloeul and Simonneau. Plate 44 of volume IV short in the outer margin. A few spots of freckling in the margins of a few leaves. Binding rubbed, with missing headpieces, beginning of cracks in some spines, stains on some boards, corners dull.
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