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61 - Proceedings of the Paris Society of Natural History.
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Estimate €500 - €600

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Proceedings of the Paris Society of Natural History. Volume One. Part One [the only part published]. Paris, Printed by the Paris Society of Natural History, 1792. Folio, 26.5 x 43.5 cm, 6 folios, XVI + 130 pp., frontispiece and 13 plates, contemporary cardboard binding, untrimmed. First edition of this collection of articles on natural history, preceded by a ‘Discourse on the Origin and Progress of Natural History in France’ by Aubin-Louis Millin. Several articles concern plants, mammals, birds, insects and shells sent from French Guiana by Jean-Baptiste Leblond. Illustrated with a frontispiece (a bust of Linnaeus unveiled at the foot of a Lebanese cedar brought back by Jussieu, at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris), engraved by Allix after the painter Pierre Henri de Valenciennes and coloured in watercolour, and 13 plates, engraved by Maleuvre after Maréchal or Bosc, also coloured in watercolour. Good condition. One of the rare copies coloured in period colours. The copy held by the BnF, digitised in Gallica, is not coloured, nor is the copy held by the Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University, digitised in the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Modern spine. From the natural history library of Gilbert Dufaux (dry-stamped on the title page, the frontispiece and p. 39). – Appraisers: Cédric and Ithier de FOUGEROLLE

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61 - Proceedings of the Paris Society of Natural History. See original version (French)

61 - Proceedings of the Paris Society of Natural History.
See original version (French)