[BUC'HOZ, Pierre Joseph], Traités très rares, 1780
GRAINDORGE, André || FORMI, Pierre || [BUC'HOZ, Pierre Joseph].
Traités très rares concernant l'histoire naturelle et les Arts.
- Graindorge, Traité de l'origine des Macreuses, 1680
- Formi, Traité de l'Adianton ou cheveu de vénus, 1644.
Paris, Saugrain & Lamy, 1780.
12mo (160x94 mm), 164 pages. binding : Contemporary full morocco, gilt flat spine. Spine faded. Little losses of leather on second cover.
Reissue of two rare texts by Buchoz to serve as an annual supplement to a naturalist journal (probably the "Journal of the Three Kingdoms of Nature"):
- Graindorge, Traité de l'origine des Macreuses, 1680.
In which the author returns to the The opinion still widespread in the seventeenth century of the spontaneous generation of scoters (or Scottish geese) from boat wrecks (or shells or as fruit of coastal trees). Grandorge demonstrates that scoters are born from eggs like all other birds.
- Formi, Treatise on the Adianton or hair of Venus, 1644
Work which brought great fame to its author in which he proposes the galenic and spagyric use of the Capillary (Fern of the genus Adiantum).
references: Brunet [II, 45].
Price : 500 €