6 - BRISSON, Mathurin-Jacques.

BRISSON, Mathurin-Jacques. The Animal Kingdom Divided into Nine Classes, or A Method Outlining the General Classification of Animals into Nine Classes Paris: Cl. Jean-Baptiste Bauche, 1756. In-4 (25 x 18.5 cm), (2) ff., VI-382 pp., (1) f., 1 plate and 2 fold-out tables. 18th-century marbled fawn sheepskin, ribbed spine, red title label, panels decorated with fleurons and gilt fillets, double gilt fillet on the edges, red edges (spine faded, small scuffs on the covers and lower edge, dulled corners, the plate very slightly oxidized). Bilingual first edition, with a title page in French and one in Latin on the reverse of the half-title page. Text printed in two columns, in Latin and French. Includes a plate of various figures, engraved in black on copper by Maisonneuve after Humblot, and two fold-out tables. Provenance: (Henri) Chrétien or Chrestien de Tréveneuc (1788–1866), husband of Polyxène Geslin, with his bookplate bearing the combined coat of arms of the Tréveneuc and Geslin de Bourgogne families, along with the coats of arms of the Dubreil de Rais, Charpentier, Crech Querault, Le Veér, Lannion, Boisgelin, Cozic, Dolo, Hingant, and La Motte Rouge, engraved around 1810–1815, most likely in Rennes by (Antoine-François) Ollivault.