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René-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur. Stipple engraving by A. Tardieu after A. S. Belle.

René-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur. Line engraving by P. Simonneau after A. S. Belle.

René-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur. Line engraving by G.B. Metzeroth.

Nature's enigma : the problem of the polyp in the letters of Bonnet, Trembley and Réaumur / Virginia P. Dawson.

Trembley, Bonney, and Réaumur and the issue of biological continuity / Virginia P. Dawson.

Réaumur et sa société / [Jean Torlais].

Catching nature in the act : Réaumur and the practice of natural history in the eighteenth century / Mary Terrall.

De thermometro Reaumuriano ... / disputabit G.G. Hauboldus, respondente Joanne Samuel Gehler.

The book of nature; or, the history of insects: reduced to distinct classes, confirmed by particular instances, displayed in the anatomical analysis of many species, and illustrated with copper-plates ... / by John Swammerdam, M.D. With the life of the author, by Herman Boerhaave, M.D. Translated from the Dutch and Latin original edition by Thomas Flloyd.

Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des insectes / [René-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur].

Art de faire éclorre et d'élever en toute saison des oiseaux domestiques de toutes especes, soit par le moyen de la chaleur du fumier, soit par le moyen de celle du feu ordinaire / Par M. de Reaumur.

Seven figures illustrating different types of anatomical specimen jars and their lids and methods of preservation used by Réaumur, Le Cat, and others. Engraving, 1749.

Poultry egg incubators.

An essay on the mystery of tempering steel : wherein the effects of that operation are fully considered / Extracted from the works of the celebrated Mons. Reaumur ; By J. Savigny.

The art of hatching and bringing up domestic fowls, by means of artificial heat. Being an abstract of Monsieur de Reaumur's curious work upon that subject; communicated to the Royal Society, in January last. By Mr. Trembley, F. R. S. Translated from the French.

Pratique de l'art de faire éclorre et d'élever en toute saison des oiseaux domestiques. De toutes especes, soit par le moyen de la chaleur du fumier, soit par le moyen de celle du feu ordinaire / [René-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur].

A short history of bees. In two parts. I. The natural history of bees, with directions for the management of them, an account of their enemies, &c. from Reaumur, &c. II. An ænigmatical account of a neighbouring nation - their queen, her palaces, attendants, &c.

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Réaumur, René-Antoine Ferchault de, 1683-1757

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An essay on the mystery of tempering steel : wherein the effects of that operation are fully considered / Extracted from the works of the celebrated Mons. Reaumur ; By J. Savigny.

The art of hatching and bringing up domestic fowls, by means of artificial heat. Being an abstract of Monsieur de Reaumur's curious work upon that subject; communicated to the Royal Society, in January last. By Mr. Trembley, F. R. S. Translated from the French.

Pratique de l'art de faire éclorre et d'élever en toute saison des oiseaux domestiques. De toutes especes, soit par le moyen de la chaleur du fumier, soit par le moyen de celle du feu ordinaire / [René-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur].

A short history of bees. In two parts. I. The natural history of bees, with directions for the management of them, an account of their enemies, &c. from Reaumur, &c. II. An ænigmatical account of a neighbouring nation - their queen, her palaces, attendants, &c.