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Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des insectes. Paris, Imprimerie royale, 1734-1742. 6 vol. in-4. Contemporary full tan calf, spine ornamented, title and tomaison gilt, triple gilt fillet on the boards. First edition of this founding work of entomological science, recognized for its great accuracy. The illustration includes 267 folding plates engraved in intaglio by Haussard, Lucas, Filloeul and Simonneau. From the Bibliothèque du Clergé de Toulouse, with its bookplate pasted to the flyleaf. Missing headpieces, cracks in some spine ends, corners dull - worm work on pages 183 to 224 of volume IV (with damage to the margins of some plates), on pages 338 to 385 in the upper margin of volume V - marginal spotting on some plates of volume VI. Some spotting and spotting.
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