Simia Petaurista / Le Blanc-Nez

by Simon Charles Miger, after Nicolas MarÉChal

$750 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

A beautiful plate with stunning early colour, from Lacépède's La Menagerie du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, an important scholarly work and one of the finest examples of eighteenth-century French natural history illustration. A professor of zoology at the Museum of Natural History, the French naturalist Bernard-Germain-Étienne Delaville, Comte de Lacépède 1756-1825 was a versatile and precocious scholar who published a number of

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