Insects.- Swammerdam (Jan) Histoire Naturelle des Insectes traduite du Biblia Naturae, first French edition, 36 engraved folding plates, ink-stamp to title, J. d'Aguilar bookplate, contemporary calf, joints split but firm, lower cover worn, [Nissen ZBI 4058], Dijon, 1758 § Puget (L. de.) Observations sur la Structure des Yeux de Divers Insectes, first edition, 3 engraved folding plates, contemporary calf, joints split, spine ends chipped, [Horn-Schenkling 12718], Lyon, 1706 § Guérin-Méneville (F.E.) Spécies et Iconographie Générique des Animaux Articulés, 9 parts in 1 vol., 36 lithograph plates, J. d'Aguilar bookplate, contemporary morocco-backed boards, 1843-49 § Dufour (Léon) Recherches anatomiques et physiologiques sur les Diptères, pp.171-360, extract from Mém. Acad. Sciences Savants étrang', 11 engraved plates, most with small repair to outer corner, some light foxing, modern calf-backed boards, [Paris], [1851]; and Audinet Serville's Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Orthoptères, 4to & 8vo (5)

⁂ The first mentioned was published as Tome V of the 'Collection Académique, composée des mémoires' and contains the entomological part of Swammerdam's 'Biblia Naturae'. "The Biblia Naturae is the finest collection of microscopical observations ever produced by one worker... The book is consulted by naturalists to this day. Some of the figures have never been excelled" (Singer). Swammerdam was able to illustrate for the first time the complex internal structures of insects including their reproductive organs; and to demonstrate the gradual development of an insect's adult from throughout all its larval stages.

The second mentioned is a pioneering work of French microscopy and the compound eyes of insects.

Guérin-Méneville (1799-1874), was a celebrated French naturalist, founder of the 'Magasin de Zoologie', and co-founder of the Société Entomologique de France and Professor of Zoology at the Collège de France in Paris.