$510
Memoires de L'Academie Royale des Sciences , Tome Premier. Memoires Pour Servir a L'Histoire Naturelle des Animaux et des Plantes . Amsterdam: Mortier, 1736. Quarto, illustrated with engraved title and headpiece, and numerous folding engravings of birds and mammals before and after dissection, with at least two plates for each animal, one depicting it in the wild, and the other some of its dissected body parts, including many exotic animals: lion, chameleon, bear, leopard, shark, gazelle, lynx, beaver, otter, civet, elan, coatimundi, seal, wildebeest, cormorant, chamois goat, porcupine, hedgehog, monkeys, elk, guinea hen, eagle, bustard, ostrich, cassowary, the great tortoise, and others; in contemporary French sheepskin, speckled, losses to spine, boards dry, joints cracked, 9 3/4 x 7 3/4 in.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2013-11-17
