Memoires pour servir a l'Histoire des Insectes. Six volume set. de Reaumur, Rene-Antoine Ferchault de (1683-1757) - 1734

Paris: De L'Imprimerie Royale, 1734. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Quarto (4to). Six volume set, complete. Published over several years, from 1734 to 1742. Original mottled calf bindings rubbed at the extremties, with a few small obvious repairs, remaining intact and attractive. Complete with 267 fold-out engraved plates. A small minority of pages have minor staining to the edge, or have minor foxing. A number of pages in the first few volumes have contemporary notations in a tiny, meticulous and neat hand in the margins. The text is otherwise relatively clean. Previous owner's bookplate neatly on the inside front cover. Vol. I: [iv], 654, [ii] with 50 plates. Vol. II: [iv], xlviii, 514 pages with 40 plates. Vol. III: [iv], xl, 532 pages with 47 plates. Vol. IV: xxxvi, 636 pages with 44 plates. Vol. V: [iv], xliv, 728 pages of text with 38 plates. Vol. VI: [iv], lxxx, 608 pages with 48 plates. First edition..