VIREY Julien Joseph - A history of the manners and inventiveness of animals, with the methodical and natural divisions of all their clusters. Volume II. Non-vertebrate animals [1844].

Warsaw 1844, published by S. Orgelbrand. 10.5x18 cm, pp (4), 480, half-leather bookbinding of the period. Good condition (outdated library stamps, rubbing of the binding, slight soiling, small perforation of one page).

Volume two of the work History of the customs and inventiveness of animals, devoted to the life and behavior of invertebrate animals. The author, a French pharmacist, physician and naturalist, as well as a versatile scientist, introduces various clusters of organisms, describes their structure, habits, adaptability, as well as their "cunningness" in acquiring food, building shelters or defending themselves from predators. Translated and footnoted by Antoni Waga (1799-1890), a prominent Polish zoologist and naturalist, writer, poet, educator.