Author: Michelet, Jules
Title: L'Insecte
Description: Paris, Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1884. Nouvelle edition. Hardcover. pp. 463. Oversized 8vo. Bound in red cloth over bevelled boards, with lovely decoration in gilt and black. Page edges gilt. With 140 illustrations by H. Giacomelli. Minor scuffing to binding, two bookplates to front pastedown, scuff to free endpaper, light occasional foxing, binding sound; very good. ''The Insect' is one of the four remarkable works in which the late M. Michelet embodied the results of a loving and perservering study of Nature. These works are absolutely unique; the poetry of Science was never before illustrated on so large a scale, or with so much vividness of fancy, or in so eloquent a style'. Ill.: Giacomelli.
Keywords: Insects; Natural History; Illustrations; Giacomelli
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Title: L'Insecte
Description: Paris, Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1884. Nouvelle edition. Hardcover. pp. 463. Oversized 8vo. Bound in red cloth over bevelled boards, with lovely decoration in gilt and black. Page edges gilt. With 140 illustrations by H. Giacomelli. Minor scuffing to binding, two bookplates to front pastedown, scuff to free endpaper, light occasional foxing, binding sound; very good. ''The Insect' is one of the four remarkable works in which the late M. Michelet embodied the results of a loving and perservering study of Nature. These works are absolutely unique; the poetry of Science was never before illustrated on so large a scale, or with so much vividness of fancy, or in so eloquent a style'. Ill.: Giacomelli.
Keywords: Insects; Natural History; Illustrations; Giacomelli
Price: CAD 86.67 = appr. US$ 59.92 Seller: Bison Books
- Book number: 096066
- Book number: 096066
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