Author: Buc'hoz, [P. J.] [Buchoz]
Title: Histoire des insectes utiles a l'homme, aux animaux, et aux arts; l'abeille, le ver a soie, le kermès, la cochinelle, l'ecrevisse, les cloportes, les cantharides, les sangsues, &c. Avec les moyens qu'on peut employer pour les multiplier, & pour en tirer avantage. A laquelle on a joint un supplément sur la destruction des insectes nuisibles.
Description: Paris, Guillot, 1785. 12mo (16.1 x 9.6 cm). vi, 351 pp. Contemporary half morocco over mottled boards. Spine with five raised bands. Rich gilt compartments. Red morocco label with gilt title. Marbled endpapers. = Rare edition of this comprehensive work on "useful" insects, including bees, silkworms, etc., by the naturalist Pierre Joseph Buc'hoz (1731-1807). The first edition of 1781 was published anonymously. This is probably the third edition (second: 1782) with a few more pages than the first. However, there are no specific records for this edition in Hagen or Horn-Schenkling. A total of six editions were published up to 1808. All are rare. Three text leaves with a horizontal tear, otherwise a very good clean copy in an attractive binding. Hagen I, p. 99; Horn-Schenkling, 2757.

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