[NATURAL SCIENCES AND HISTORY - 18th century]. - Lot 148

[NATURAL SCIENCES AND HISTORY - 18th century]. SET of three volumes. - LE MONNIER, Pierre Charles. Laws of Magnetism, Compared with Observations and Experiments in Various Parts of the Earth Paris: Royal Printing Office, 1776. In-8, XXXI-168-XXIII pp., 2 fold-out maps. Mottled fawn calfskin, ribbed spine, red title label, richly decorated panels, triple gilt fillet framing on the covers, gilt roulette on the headband, gilt edges (very slight scuffing on the binding, foxing on a few pages of the text). First edition. -HENRION, Denis. DESHAYES. The Use of the Proportional Compass. Paris: Published by the Author (sic), Chez de la Caille, 1681. In-12. Contemporary tan sheepskin, decorated ribbed spine, gilt title (slight water stain on the side of a few quires, a few minor creases on the plate, binding slightly rubbed). A fine copy in its contemporary binding. Complete with the fold-out etching depicting the proportional compass in two figures. Several woodcut illustrations in the text. -BONNATERRE (Abbé). Encyclopedic and Methodical Survey of the Three Kingdoms of Nature. Ornithology. Paris: Panckoucke, 1790. Quarto, LXXX pp. Superb engraved plates devoted primarily to ornithology, taken from the *Encyclopédie méthodique Panckoucke*, a monumental work based on that of Diderot and d’Alembert. 110 black copperplate engravings, including 7 plates (plates 2–8: Verrerie Supp.), 7 double plates (figures inserted in Volume VII of the Encyclopédie’s plates), 2 plates signed by Bernard (numbered 229 and 230), 18 plates by Bernard Direxit (plates 1–19; excluding plate 3), 51 plates signed by Bernard (plates 178–228; plate 188 is bound after 189), and 25 plates by Bernard Direxit (plates 20–45; excluding plate 42).