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Bees and hive.

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection

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Memoires pour servir a l'histoire des insectes

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Title
Bees and hive.
Names
Réaumur, René-Antoine Ferchault de, 1683-1757 (Author)
Collection

Memoires pour servir a l'histoire des insectes

Dates / Origin
Date Issued: 1734 - 1742
Place: A Paris
Publisher: De l'Imprimerie royale
Library locations
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection
Shelf locator: Schlosser 647
Topics
Insects
Genres
Prints
Notes
Content: Printer's device on t.p. of each volume; tailpieces.
Content: Provenance: Rod. de Coulon (etched armorial bookplate, v. 1-6).
Content: Schlosser Collection.
Content: Signatures: v. 1:*² A-4N⁴; v. 2: pi² a-f⁴ A-3S⁴ 3T² (pi1 blank); v. 3: pi² a-e⁴ A-3V⁴ 3X²; v. 4: a-d⁴ e² A-4K⁴ 4L² (4L2 blank); v. 5: [superscript pi]a² a-e⁴ f² A-4Y⁴; v. 6:pi² a-k⁴ A-4G⁴.
Content: Illustrations: 279 prints : etching ; plate mark 7 x 13 cm. (6: headpieces), 3 x 3 cm. (6: decorative initials) and 23 x 17 cm. Engraved by Philippe Simmoneau, Pierre Fillœul, J.-B. Haussard and Claude Lucas. Drawings for plates in v. 1 chiefly by Simmoneau, in later vols. by Hélène Dumoutier de Marsilly. Cf. v. 1, mémoire 1, p. 55; cf. also Un esprit encyclopédique en dehors de "l'Encyclopédie" : Réaumur / Jean Torlais (Paris, 1936), p. 225.
Content: "Histoire des guespes en général ... " and "Des freslons, des guespes cartonniéres" (v. 6, mémoires 6-7. p. 155-246)contain numerous references to wasps' nest paper, e.g. p. 223: an American wasp (in Cayenne) produces "un carton quine le cede en rien au plus beau, au plus blanc, au plus fort que nous sçachons faire"; p. 232: "Celles-ci [i.e. the American wasps] nous donnent une importante leçon en nous apprenant qu'on peut faire du papier de la qualité dunôtre, avec des fibres de plantes, qui n'ont pas passé parl'état de linge & de chiffon". The latter passage continues by suggesting that the wood used by the wasps bediscovered and imported for use in papermaking (p. 232-234). Plates 14-25 depict paper wasps and their nests.
Statement of responsibility: par M. de Reaumur ...
Physical Description
Etchings
Extent: 1 print : etching.
Type of Resource
Still image
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b12071751
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 7fd34260-c607-012f-a8bd-58d385a7bc34
Rights Statement
The copyright and related rights status of this item has been reviewed by The New York Public Library, but we were unable to make a conclusive determination as to the copyright status of the item. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.

Item timeline of events

  • 1683: Creator Born
  • 1734: Issued (Approximate)
  • 1757: Creator Died
  • 2013: Digitized
  • 2024: Found by you!
  • 2025

MLA Format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection, The New York Public Library. "Bees and hive." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1734 - 1742. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/8c4aebf1-32e7-8909-e040-e00a180602d7

Chicago/Turabian Format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection, The New York Public Library. "Bees and hive." New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed September 18, 2024. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/8c4aebf1-32e7-8909-e040-e00a180602d7

APA Format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection, The New York Public Library. (1734 - 1742). Bees and hive. Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/8c4aebf1-32e7-8909-e040-e00a180602d7

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Bees and hive.