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[ENTOMOLOGY]. LATREILLE, Pierre-André (1762-1833), French en - Lot 328
[ENTOMOLOGY]. LATREILLE, Pierre-André (1762-1833), French entomologist. Set of 3 autograph letters signed, addressed to his publisher. Paris and s.l., December 15, 1815, September 3 and 30, 1818. 3 pp. in-4.
About the disrupted printing of a work by Cuvier. Latreille is furious and warns his publisher Déterville that no further changes to articles or proofs will be made without his express authorization, which comes from the zoologist Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest (1784-1838). He added: "I warn you that M. Desmarets will no longer see my proofs last, and that he will not add any article to my part, not even a simple reference [...]". In a third letter, Latreille, who was ill, delegated a work to his fellow botanist, zoologist and member of the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc d'Antic (1759-1828), etc. Latreille had just published a number of works on the subject.
Latreille had just published several volumes of his Nouveau dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle, with Déterville (in 1817 and 1818) and is most likely referring here to his Mémoires sur divers sujets de l'Histoire naturelle des insectes, to be published by Derville in 1819.
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-PRÊTRE, Jean-Gabriel (1768-1849), Franco-Swiss painter at the Paris Natural History Museum. He illustrated a wide variety of animals: birds, mammals and reptiles, mollusks and numerous publications. L.A.S. December 1848. 1 p. in-8. He addresses Guérin "a bad croquade which I think is a bit like me. It's a case of asking the intentional question, which is to paint my portrait [...]". He signs "J. G. Prêtre Peintre du Museum d'histoire naturelle de Paris".
- SERRES, Marcel de. Interesting letter written in his name. S.l.n.d. 1 p. in-8. Serres sends Lemercier some documents, except the articles on lost races. He says he is looking for a publisher for a work entitled "Les animaux et les végétaux dont on ne retrouve plus les analogues sur la surface de la terre, peuvent-ils être considérés comme les souches des races actuelles? This work will be about 200 pages long [...]".
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