Brochures diverses. Histoire naturelle. Traitement de divers minerals. [Bound convolute from Isidore Geoffroy St.-Hilaire's library].

Paris, several publishers, (1846-1865). Ca. 400 pp.; several plates. Contemporary red half morocco over marbled boards. Spine with four raised, gilt-lined bands, blind-tooled compartments and gilt title. Marbled endpapers. = A unique collection of important offprints, including several with handwritten, signed dedications and with the library stamp of the French zoologist and founder of the science of ethology, Isidore Geoffroy St. Hilaire (1805-1861). Includes E. Philips's Sur le gisement, l'exploitation, la préparation mécanique et le traitement métallurgique des Mines de Plomb de Bleiberg en Carinthie, 64 pp., five folded engravings; [AND] Phillips and Rivot, Description d'un nouveau procédé de traitement métallurgique des minerais de cuivre, from Annales des Mines, Série 4, 1849,19 pp., folded engraved plate; [AND] Seyferth et Hochstetter, Application de la vapeur de sulfure de Carbone comme force motrice. Paris 1857. 24 pp.; [AND] several more on agriculture such as: J. Bonjean, Amploi du riz, de la rave et de la Bettrave (1858); A. Sicard, Monographie de la Canne à sucre de la Chine dite Sorgho à sucre, Vol. 2: Études sur les produits industriels et manufactories. (1858). 210 pp.; [AND] five more papers by E. Prilleux on orchids, oléacées, jasminées, mostly offprints from the Annales des Sciences Naturelles (1855-1857). An interesting set in an attractive binding.