Essai sur l'histoire naturelle du polype, insecte. Trans. P. Demours.

Chez Durand. insects, natural history, zoology, biology, science, French, illustrated book, polyps, polyp First French edition, translated by Pierre Demours (1702-1795), of a work first printed in the Philosophical Transactions, then separately in London, 1743, as An Attempt Towards a Natural History of the Polype. It includes observations of the habits of freshwater polyps and various experiments performed on them. Baker (1698-1774) was one of several fellows of the Royal Society who became interested in polyps after Trembley's experiments were published. He is best known for his popular The Microscope Made Easy, 1742.Despite the numbering on the spine, this work is complete in a single volume. It must have been shelved originally with other works by the same publisher in the same format in similar bindings. First Edition in French