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The Hague, Pierre Gosse Jr. & Daniel Pinet, & Marc Michel Rey, a Amsterdam, 1762.. TITLE CONTINUED: augmente d'une explication abregee des planches et d'une description de l'instrument et des outils dont l'auteur s'est servi pour anatomiser a la loupe et au microscope, et pour determiner la force de ses verres, suivant les regles de l'optique et mechaniquement. SECOND AND BEST EDITION 1762. FRENCH TEXT. 4to, approximately 270 x 215 mm, 10½ x 8¼ inches, 18 engraved folding plates by Lyonet, plus 1 engraved plate unnumbered (microscope) and 24 page description of the microscope used by Lyonet, title page printed red and black, pages: xxiv, 1-40, 1-587, 3 unnumbered pages of Index, divisional half-title, Avis au Relieur, 589-616, rebound in full modern panelled calf, maroon gilt lettered label to spine, gilt decorated spine, red edges. Occasional foxing and age-browning to margins, some pages a little dusty at edges, otherwise a very good handsome copy of this monograph on the Goat Moth. At the top of… Read More

Pierre Gosse Jr. & Daniel Pinet à la Haye et Marc Michel Rey à Amsterdam. 1762. [Second edition]. 4to.. pp. xxii, (ii) Table. 1 plate un-numbered; 40. 8 plates numbered I-VIII; 616. 10 plates numbered IX-XVIII. All plates except the first un-numbered plate are folding. Modern quarter morocco, some plates a bit dusty at the edges, four misfolded with the fore-edge margins exceeding the width of the text, overall a very good copy, with an inscription - 'G. W. Le Fevre from Miss Ansted March 5th. 1822' and the later inscription from Sir George Le Fevre to THOMAS BELL [see NOTES below]. *GARRISON-MORTON #305 - 'Lyonet's great monograph on the goat moth caterpillar remains today among the greatest examples of anatomical examination.' Following the Introduction, Lyonet has written a detailed description of his microscope and apparatus used in dissection and examination, accompanied by a plate of his microscope and accessories. For a brief discussion of Lyonet's use of Musschenbroek's design of an… Read More