[Treatise on the art of preparing] (Etienne François Turgot)

Mémoire instructif sur la manière de rassembler, de préparer, de conserver, et d'envoyer les diverses curiosités d'histoire naturelle; auquel on a joint un mémoire intitulé: Avis pour le transport par mer, des arbres, des plantes vivaces, des semences, et de diverses autres curiosités d'histoire naturelle Lyon, Jean Marie Bruyset, 1758, XVI,335,(1) p., with 25 folding, engraved plates, contemporary calf with gilt back with raised bands.

Waterstained and here and there foxed; reset in binding with new hinges. Interesting treatise on the stuffing/conserving of all possible species of animals, with plates of birds, rabbits, reptiles, fish, crustaceans, insects, shellfish, coral and fishing aids. See extensively on Étienne-François Turgot (1721-1789) (brother of the more famous Anne Robert Jacques Turgot): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89tienne-Fran%C3%A7ois_Turgot.