164 - [VIREY (Julien-Joseph)]. New Dictionary of Natural History Applied to the Arts, Primarily to Agriculture and Rural and Domestic Economy. Paris: Crapelet and Deterville Press, Year XI—1803–1804. 24 in-8 volumes, fawn half-basane, covers lined with pink paper. Faults on some caps, minor binding flaws, some plates discolored.

[VIREY (Julien-Joseph)]. New Dictionary of Natural History Applied to the Arts, Primarily to Agriculture and Rural and Domestic Economy. Paris: Crapelet and Deterville Press, Year XI—1803–1804. 24 in-8 volumes, fawn half-basane, covers lined with pink paper. Faults on some caps, minor binding flaws, some plates discolored. Complete set of 264 engraved plates as inserts by Tardieu, Pelé, and others, based on works by de Sèves and Meunier. First edition edited under the direction of the physician, naturalist, and anthropologist Julien-Joseph Virey (1775–1846), with the collaboration of leading scientists of the time such as Jean-Baptiste Biot, Jacques-Martin Cels, Jean-Antoine Chaptal, Antoine-Augustin Parmentier, Charles Sonnini de Manoncourt, and André Thouin.