1876 463, 140 figures, frontispiece, contemporary half morocco, spine with five raised bands and author/title in gilt, endpages marbled. Edges gilt. Very faint waterstain in lower margin. A few pages with some foxing. Dedication on the verso of the frontispiece. One of the better editions. The illustrations by H. Giacomelli are beautiful and famous. Tight and nicely bound copy.
Reference : EG39734
Hermann L. Strack
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(Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1766). 4to. No wrappers. As issued in ""Memoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres"" Tome XX pp. 3-24 and 1 engraved plate.
This paper on the preparation of fixed alkali from tartar by means of acid without employing a violent fire, may have suggested the preparation of tartaric acid to Scheele. (Partington II:729).
"BONNET, (CHARLES). - FIRST SCIENTIFIC DESCRIPTION OF THE TAPEWORM.
Reference : 45045
(1750)
Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1750. 4to. Extract from ""Mémoires de Mathematique et de Physique, Présentés à l'Academie des Sciences par divers Savans"", Tome I. Pp. 478-529 pp. and 2 engraved plats. With titlepage to Volume I. A small wormhole to inner margin.
First appearance of this classic study of the tapeworm (Taenia), being the first accurate description of the Proglottids.""In 1741 he began to study reproduction by fusion and the regeneration of lost parts in the freshwater hydra and other animals. The following year he discovered that the respiration of caterpillars and butterflies is performed by pores, to which the name of stigmata has since been given. He also studied tapeworms. These investigations earned him a membership of the Royal Society of London in 1743, the same year he became a doctor of laws.""""Bonnet is considered one of the fathers of modern biology. He is distinguished for both his experimental research and his philosophy, which exerted a profound influence upon the naturalists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. "" (D.S.B. II: 286).With: M. Geer ""Observation sur la propriété singulière qu'ont les grandes Chenilles á quatorze jambes & à double queue, du Saule, de seringuer de la liqueur"". Pp. 530-638 a. 1 engraved plate.
"RÉAUMUR, (RENÉ-ANTOINE FERCHAULT DE). - FIRST DESCRIPTION OF SLUG MITE.
Reference : 45674
(1712)
(Paris, Jean Boudot, 1712). 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from ""Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences. Année 1710"". Pp. 305-310 a. 1 engraved plate
In this paper Reaumur for the first time described the slug mite.
Limoges, Ducourtieux et Gout, 1909, un volume in 8 relié en demi-maroquin marron, tête dorée (reliure de l'époque), 75pp., figures dans le texte
---- Métamérie de l'insecte - Groupement des métamères par triades - Examen sommaire des organes de l'insecte - Squelette chitineux - Tube digestif - Organes génitaux - Système nerveux**6102/A7DE
Paris, Librairie de l hachette et cie, 1859; in-12, 400 pp., cuir noir a caisson .
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