Paris, Académie des Sciences, 1746. 4to (24.5 x 18.6 cm). Seven pp.; one large, folded engraved plate. Disbound.

A seldom-seen publication on the antlion by the naturalist and physicist René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (1683-1757), author of the influential Memoires pour servir a l'histoire des Insectes, and inventor of the temperature scale - the first to use the freezing point and boiling point of water - named after him. Well-illustrated. Excerpt of the academy's Mémoires. A very good, clean copy. Rare. Horn-Schenkling 7767 (pars).