[MANETTE - SCIENCES NATURELLES]. Set of 10 volumes including - Lot 517

[MANETTE - SCIENCES NATURELLES]. Set of 10 volumes including: HUXLEY, Thomas Henry. Physiography. Introduction to the Study of Nature. Published in Paris by Librairie Germer Baillère et Cie in 1882. In octavo / In-8 format, bradel. Red half-basane, first cover decorated with the name of the Lycée de Marseille. Spine ribbed and decorated with gilt floral caissons. Gilt edges. Contemporary binding. XVI-415 pages, black frontispiece engraving, 2 fold-out maps. Spine lightly rubbed, rare foxing. First illustrated French translation of Huxley's principles on the study of natural phenomena. Copy awarded as the second prize of the Lycée de Marseille in Physical Sciences awarded to Auguste Baret in 1887. Sold with : Phénomène social et sociétés animales by RABAUD (1937, with author's handwritten letter); Histoire naturelle de la connaissance chez le singe inférieur by VERLAINE (1936, handwritten bookplate); La Nature by NICOLLE (1934). Together in good condition.