Lot 406
Perrault, Claude
Rare Books, Maps and Manuscripts
Auction: 11 January 2012 at 11:00 GMT
£719
Description
The natural history of animals, containing the anatomical description of several creatures dissected by the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris. London: R. Smith, 1702. First edition, folio, [4], 40, [10], 3-267, [13], translated by Alexander Pitfield and RIchard Waller, engraved frontispiece and 35 engraved plates, contemporary calf, library stamp to frontispiece margin and title, rebacked, corners repaired, slightly dampstained at end