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Volumes of plates have title: Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règne de la nature

Plates for ptie. 18 and 24 engraved by Deseve, Louvet, Benard, Drouet or Barrow; Deseve also artist

"Discours préliminaire et plan du dictionnaire des insectes", by Mr. Mauduyt. Plates engraved under the direction of the abbé Bonnaterre

A new and enlarged edition of Diderot's Encyclopédie, arranged as a system of separate dictionaries; published by Charles Panckoucke, 1782-92, continued by Henri Agasse, 1792-1813, and Mme. la veuve Agasse, 1813-32

Described in Graesse, Trésor de livres rares et précieux, t. 2, p. 474-477, as being complete in "102 livraisons ou 337 parties, format 166 vol. et demi de texte et 51 parties reformat 6439 pl. in 4."

t. 6. Histoire naturelle : Insectes / par M. Olivier (1791) -- t. 8. Histoire naturelle : Insectes / par M. Olivier (1811) -- t. 10. Histoire naturelle : Entomologie, ou, histoire naturelle des Crustaces, des Arachnides et des Insectes / par MM. Latreille, Le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau, Serville et Guérin (1825) -- ptie. 18. Insectes [tableau] (1797) -- ptie. 24. Crustacés, arachnides et insectes [tableau] / par M. Latreille (1818)

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SCHNRB volumes in brown buckram library binding; gilt-stamped spine

SCHNRB plate volumes (pties. 18 and 24) appear to be folio format with numbers as signatures

SCHNRB copy has 142 p. of text for ptie. 18 (of plates) bound with plates and text of ptie. 24

SCHNRB volumes have embossed stamp: Smithsonian Institution National Museum. Partie 18 has stamp: Smithsonian Libraries Feb. 17, 1959

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