[Entomology] Puget, L. de. Observations sur la structure des yeux de divers insectes,

et sur la trompe des papillons, contenuës en deux lettres au R.P. (Reverend Père) Lamy (François Lamy). Lyon, L. Plaignard, 1706, (8),157,(3) p., w. 3 fold engr. plates w. 16 ills. (original size and microscopic views), cont. calf, gilt fillet border around sides, gilt and ribbed spine, sm. 8vo. Plates sl. frayed along fore-edge, occas. foxing and staining. Binding skilfully rebacked w. use of the orig. backstrip, covers stained.

Horn & Schenkling 17511; Hagen, p. 54; Blake, p. 365; Cole Library 1109. Only edition of this pioneering work on the structure of insect (and crayfish) eyes and a butterfly probiscis, by a pioneer of French microscopy. Rare.