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OLIVIER, Guillaume-Antoine Entomologie ou Histoire naturelle des insectes, avec leurs caractères génériques et spécifiques, leur description, leur synonymie, et leur figure enluminée. Paris Baudouin 1789-1795 4 (of 6) vol. 4to; front. and 262 pl. ((vol. 5 and 6 missing), sheet with light spots on verso vol. 2, some foxing in vol. 4). Contemp. calf, titled spines with raised bands, gilt edges (lower joint part. split vol. 3, sl. rubbed). First edition of this major work by the entomologist Olivier. The beautiful front. in the 1st vol. and all the 262 plates, engraved by Lebrecht Reinold and J. Audebert, are finely hand-coloured. Ref. Nissen (ZBI) 3012.

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OLIVIER, Guillaume-Antoine Entomologie ou Histoire naturelle des insectes, avec leurs caractères génériques et spécifiques, leur description, leur synonymie, et leur figure enluminée. Paris Baudouin 1789-1795 4 (of 6) vol. 4to; front. and 262 pl. ((vol. 5 and 6 missing), sheet with light spots on verso vol. 2, some foxing in vol. 4). Contemp. calf, titled spines with raised bands, gilt edges (lower joint part. split vol. 3, sl. rubbed). First edition of this major work by the entomologist Olivier. The beautiful front. in the 1st vol. and all the 262 plates, engraved by Lebrecht Reinold and J. Audebert, are finely hand-coloured. Ref. Nissen (ZBI) 3012.

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RÉAUMUR (René-Antoine Ferchault de). Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des insectes. Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1734-1742. 6 volumes in-4, marbled calf, ornate ribbed spines, red and brown marbled title pages, red edges (period binding). [2] ff, 654 pp, 50 plates; [2] ff, XLVI-[2]-514 pp, [1] f. 40 plates; [2] ff, XL-532 pp, 47 plates; XXXIV-[2]-636 pp, 44 plates; [2] ff, XLIV-728 pp, 38 plates; [2] ff, LXXX-608 pp, 48 plates. one plate torn but not missing. First edition of the first major scientific history of insects, written by the naturalist and academician René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (1683-1757). (Nissen, 3315.) The first-edition illustration consists of 267 folding plates, 6 head vignettes and 6 small ornate initials, all finely engraved in intaglio by Simonneau, Haussard, Filloeul and Lucas. T.I and II: Caterpillars, butterflies and insect enemies of caterpillars; T.III: Histoire des Verses mineurs des feuilles, des Teignes, des fausses Teignes, des Pucerons, des ennemis des Pucerons, des faux Pucerons, & l'Histoire des Galles des plantes, & de leurs insectes; T.IV, V and VI: Histoire des Gallinsectes, des Progallinsectes, & des Mouches à deux ailes, et l'Histoire de plusieurs Mouches à quatre ailes, savoir, des Mouches à scies, des Cigales & des Abeilles. A key scientist of the first half of the 18th century, René-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (1683-1757) carried out numerous research projects on subjects as varied as geometry, metallurgy, temperature, gastric juices and anchors (see Dictionnaire des Arts et Métiers, 1761-1782). But it was above all to entomology that he devoted a large part of his work, as witnessed by these Memoirs, a veritable masterpiece of precision attesting to the assiduity and sagacity of its author in his observation of insects. This series, illustrated with finely executed plates and rightly regarded as one of the seminal works in entomology, was never completed: crickets, grasshoppers and beetles remained to be dealt with ("L'Histoire des fourmis" and "L'Histoire des scarabées" were published only in the first half of the 20th century -1938-1955 - based on hitherto unpublished manuscripts). A very fine copy. (Nissen, 3315; Brunet, IV, 1131; Quérard, VII, 481).

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