VIREY J J. - A history of the customs and instincts of animals. Vol. 2 Nonvertebrate animals

VIREY J[ulien] J[oseph] - A history of manners and inventiveness, with methodical and natural divisions of all their clusters. A course read in the Royal Athenaeum of Paris by .... Translated from the French and expounded with many footnotes by Antoni Waga. Volume II. Non-vertebrate animals Warsaw 1844. Nakł. S. Orgelbrand Bookseller. 16d, p. 736. late fawn binding.
Missing 2 pages: frontispiece and card (pp. 11-12), otherwise good condition. Deleted bibliot. stamp. Missing from the set of editions is volume 2, with a presentation of non-domestic animals, i.e. invertebrates, including: mollusks, crustaceans, arachnids, insects, etc. The second volume of the Polish translation of lectures on natural history delivered in Paris and published in a work entitled. "Histoire des moeurs et de l'instinct des animaux..." by Julien Joseph Virey (1775-1846) - French pharmacist, naturalist and anthropologist. Includes, among others: Introduction on the beauties of Natural History, On Living and Organic Nature, and its Kingdoms, Comparison of Animals to Plants, Designation of Animals and their Habits, On Sucking Animals, or Four-legged Living Animals, Natural History of Birds, Natural History of Reptiles and Amphibians, Natural History of Fishes, Comparison of Dorsal and Non-dorsal Animals. Infrequent