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<dl><dd>Engraved title page, printed à la poupée in blue and reddish-brown</dd>
<dd>Author's name from dedication (page [1], 1st group)</dd>
<dd>Imprint from colophon</dd>
<dd>Epigraph on title page: "Curiosum nobij [correctly, nobis] Natura ingenium dedit. Seneca de Vita Beata cap. 32." The quotation actually comes from chapter 5 of Seneca's De otio</dd>
<dd>Collation: 8vo: engraved title + [pi]1 a-q⁸ [$2 signed]; 129 leaves, pages [2 unnumbered] 1-256 + 8 unnumbered plates. The preliminary leaf contains the dedication (verso blank)</dd>
<dd>The text pages have decorative borders</dd>
<dd>The 8 anonymous etched plates may be printed in blue or reddish brown; one copy (sold by Christie's in 2006: sale 1769, lot 470) has 2 in ochre and 6 in green and ochre à la poupée). The etched initials are printed in blue or reddish brown; in some copies the plates, placed as apparently intended at the beginning of each chapter, are printed in the opposite color</dd>
<dd>On the plates as evidence of "the extent to which evolutionary ideas circulated during the Enlightenment" see F. Barbagli, "In retrospect: the earliest picture of evolution?", in Nature 462 (19 November 2009), page 289. Barbagli notes that "the iconographical content of the images is independent from the writing."</dd>
<dd>Errata on final page</dd>
<dd>Includes bibliographical references</dd>
<dd>NUC pre-1956</dd>
<dd>Brunet</dd>
<dd>Deborah Coltham Rare Books;</dd>
<dd>SCNHRB copy 39088018199570 has the plates printed in blue, with the decorated initials printed in reddish brown</dd>
<dd>SCNHRB copy has bookplate: Smithsonian Libraries. Purchased from the Cullman Endowment</dd>
<dd>SCNHRB copy has a later floral-themed wallpaper-style paste paperboard binding with gilt-stamped red leather spine label</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Animal intelligence; Animal behavior; Evolution; Psychology, Comparative; Animal intelligence; Animal behavior; Psychology, Comparative</div>
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<dl><dd>Soldini, Francesco Maria, author</dd>
<dd>Cambiagi, Gaetano, printer</dd></dl></div>
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