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BARBUT, JACQUES. The Genera Vermium. Vol. 1 (of 2). 1783
BARBUT, JACQUES. The Genera Vermium exemplified by Various Specimens of the Animals contained in the Orders of the Intestina et Mollusca Linnaei. Volume 1 (of 2). English and French text. 11 hand-colored etched plates after drawings by Barbut. [4], xv, [3], [xvii]-xx, 101 pages, including etched pictorial additional title in French, also after Barbut; with the one-leaf subscribers' list bound out of order. 4to, modern brown calf with morocco lettering piece; heavy offsetting from additional title onto letterpress title, light offsetting from plates onto facing pages. London: James Dixwell for the Author, John Sewell, et al., 1783
- Notes: first edition of an illustrated monograph on marine worms, mollusks, etc., classified in the obsolete Linnaean phylum Vermes. The second volume appeared in 1788. Nissen ZBI 221; Soulsby 108.
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