Buc'hoz, [P. J.] [Buchoz]
Histoire des insectes utiles a l'homme, aux animaux, et aux arts; l'abeille, le ver a soie, le kermès, la cochinelle, l'ecrevisse, les cloportes, les cantharides, les sangsues, &c. Avec les moyens qu'on peut employer pour les multiplier, & pour en tirer avantage. A laquelle on a joint un supplément sur la destruction des insectes nuisibles.
Paris, Guillot, 1785. 12mo (16.1 x 9.6 cm). vi, 351 pp. Contemporary half morocco over mottled boards. Spine with five raised bands. Rich gilt compartments. Red morocco label with gilt title. Marbled endpapers.
Rare edition of this comprehensive work on "useful" insects, including bees, silkworms, etc., by the naturalist Pierre Joseph Buc'hoz (1731-1807). The first edition of 1781 was published anonymously. This is probably the third edition (second: 1782) with a few more pages than the first. However, there are no specific records for this edition in Hagen or Horn-Schenkling. A total of six editions were published up to 1808. All are rare. Three text leaves with a horizontal tear, otherwise a very good clean copy in an attractive binding. Hagen I, p. 99; Horn-Schenkling, 2757.
