Author: (ALLETZ, P.A.)
Title: Histoire des singes, et autres animaux curieux, dont l'instinct & l'industrie excitent l'admiration des hommes, comme les Éléphans, Les Castors, & c.
Description: Paris, Chez Duchesne, Libraire, rue Saint Jacques, au-dessous de la Fontaine Saint Benoît, au Temple du Goût, 1752. 8vo. W. small woodc. vignette on pr. title. Original limp brds, intermediate or 'carta rustica' binding. ( (i) - x, (11) - 213, III (Privilege & 1 blank) pp.). (A few quires some light browning, a few foxed spots.). (Large paper copy with more than ample blank margins; uncut). First edition. Barbier vol. II, p. 768 c: a very good uncut copy in a beautiful and original (interim) binding. Early treatise on animal behaviour and animal psychology. Discussing the different species of monkeys, their social and group behaviour, their illnesses; Also on elephants, dolphins, bird song, homing pigeons, the language of animals, the construction of nests by birds and their care for their young ones, birds of passage, etc.

Keywords: mind world apes Vilia