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FUESSLI, Johann Caspar. Archives de l'histoire des insectes. Winterthur: J. Ziegler, 1794. French translation of a finely illustrated treatise on insects from the original German edition published in 1781-86.
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FUESSLI, Johann Caspar (1742-86). Archives de l'histoire des insectes. Winterthur: J. Ziegler, 1794.

4to (240 x189mm). Half title, errata/binder’s instruction leaf, 50 engraved plates (47 hand-colored). (Some marginal browning and spotting to text, plates generally clean, with very minor toning to some extreme outer margins.)  19th-century boards (rebacked and recornered in modern calf with portion of contemporary spine laid down, rubbed). Provenance: unidentified armorial bookplate.
 
French translation of a finely illustrated treatise on insects from the original German edition published in 1781-86. Nissen, ZBI 1455. 

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