NOUVEAU DICTIONNAIRE D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE, appliquée aux arts, principalement à l'agriculture et à l'économie rurale et domestique. By a society of naturalists and farmers. Paris, Deterville, 1803-1804. 24 volumes in-8, fawn basane, smooth spine decorated (period binding). Important dictionary written by the most famous naturalists of the time: Chaptal, Huzard, Latreille, Olivier, Parmentier, Sonnini, Thouin, and Virey. It contains 264 plates engraved by Tardieu, Pelé... after de Sèves and Meunier (some in colour). Bindings defective, often with small leather tears, occasional pronounced wetness and scattered foxing on some volumes, a few galeries, browned plates. Subscription leaflet at the end of the last volume.