Compte Rendu et Presente au Corps Legislatif... l'An V... Contenant l'apercu du progres des sciences, et l'analyse des travaux des diverses classes de l'Institut pendant la seconde annee de son etablissement...

Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale. 1797.

174pp. 8vo, modern wrappers. Edges rough; a few small stains, but a very good uncut copy. Paris, De L'Imprimerie Nationale. An VI, (1797).

An interesting and valuable account on the progress of the work of the French scientists during the second year of the founding of the Institut National. The first part contains an account by Dupont de Nemours' on the behavior patterns of dogs, foxes, wolves, etc. There is also a long discussion of Talleyand's "Relations naturelles de l'Amerique septentrionale" and his essay on the colonies. Smeaton. Fourcroy.pp. 71, 72-3.

Binding: Paperback
Language: French

Price: $250.00

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