Suite des Memoires pour Servir a l’histoire Naturelle des Animaux” 1676 - Perrault

 “Suite des Memoires pour Servir a l’histoire Naturelle des Animaux”

-Published by the "Imprimerie Royale" - French Royal Press.

-Elephant folio (58cm in height)

-19th Century full calf binding with gold tooling to the spine. Hinges cracked.

-Bookplate of Hans Sloane - MP in 19th Century

-1676

-This is the second part of the two part series "Memoires pour Servir a L'histoire Naturelle des Animaux" published separately in 1671 and 1676.

-Complete: Engraved title page [4] pp93-205, [2] with 15 Large engravings in text  and a 1/2 plate engraving in text. The copy is complete but does not contain the duplicate frontispiece which is sometimes found in copies. 

"One of the most sumptuously produced of all early biological works" (Garrison-Morton)

This work was created by the Parisian anatomists, lead by Claude Perrault. It was one of the first detailed studies of animals and their anatomy and would lead the way in comparative anatomy in the 18th and 19th Centuries.

This book contains large but delicate engravings which depict an Ostrich, an Eagle, deer and some Monkeys, amongst others. Each depiction of an animal is accompanied by drawings of early anatomical dissections. This copy was once owned by the MP Hans Sloane and is housed in a beautiful 19th Century full calf binding.