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The natural history of ants. By M. P. Huber, ... Translated from the French, with additional notes, by J. R. Johnson, M.D., F.R.S., ...
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HUBER, Pierre (1777--1840)
[Recherches sur les moeurs des fourmis indigènes. English. 1820]
The natural history of ants. By M. P. Huber, ... Translated from the French, with additional notes, by J. R. Johnson, M.D., F.R.S., ...
London (Place), printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown,, 1820.
xlv, [1], 398 p., hand-col. engr. frontis., [1] pl. ; 17.8 cm. (12º)
A translation of Recherches sur les moeurs des fourmis indigènes, first published in 1810. 'Printed by A. and R. Spottiswoode'. The hand-coloured frontispiece displays species of ants. Soane's interest in the book presumably relates to the chapter on the "architecture of ants", illustrated with a plate.
Copy Notes Bought from Ogle, Duncan & Co., for 6s. 10d., 12 February 1822. (Priv. Corr. XVI.E:4.3). A work on the natural history of bees by the author's father François Huber was purchased on the same occasion (q.v.).
Binding Later C19th calf, blind roll-tooled borders, marbled-paper boards, gilt-ruled spine. Payment of 1s. 8d. to George Richmond, bookbinder, 25 April 1853. (Curatorial papers/Bailey/Parcel 1).
Reference Number 1128
Additional Names Ogle, Duncan & Co.; Belot, Octavie Durey de
[Recherches sur les moeurs des fourmis indigènes. English. 1820]
The natural history of ants. By M. P. Huber, ... Translated from the French, with additional notes, by J. R. Johnson, M.D., F.R.S., ...
London (Place), printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown,, 1820.
xlv, [1], 398 p., hand-col. engr. frontis., [1] pl. ; 17.8 cm. (12º)
A translation of Recherches sur les moeurs des fourmis indigènes, first published in 1810. 'Printed by A. and R. Spottiswoode'. The hand-coloured frontispiece displays species of ants. Soane's interest in the book presumably relates to the chapter on the "architecture of ants", illustrated with a plate.
Copy Notes Bought from Ogle, Duncan & Co., for 6s. 10d., 12 February 1822. (Priv. Corr. XVI.E:4.3). A work on the natural history of bees by the author's father François Huber was purchased on the same occasion (q.v.).
Binding Later C19th calf, blind roll-tooled borders, marbled-paper boards, gilt-ruled spine. Payment of 1s. 8d. to George Richmond, bookbinder, 25 April 1853. (Curatorial papers/Bailey/Parcel 1).
Reference Number 1128
Additional Names Ogle, Duncan & Co.; Belot, Octavie Durey de