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PUGET, L. DE. Observations sur la structure des yeux de divers insectes, et sur la trompe des Papillons, contenues en deux lettres au R.P. Lamy, Religieux Benedictin, & dans un Memoire quiexplique les figures de quelques objets qu'on découvre par le secours du Microscope.

Lion, L. Plaignard, 1706. 8vo (165 x 105mm). pp. (8), 157, (3), with 3 folded engraved plates. Contemporary calf (hinges split but firm)

EUR 750

showing among others two splendid early woodcuts of a camel and a dromedary as well a rhinoceros, copying Durer's famous woodcut of 1515

ALDROVANDI, U. Quadrupedum omnium bisulcorum historia ...

Bononiae, I. Baptista Ferronius, 1642. Folio (340 x 230mm). pp. (6), 1040, (12), with engraved allegorical title-page and 89 (some full-page) woodc...

EUR 3,900