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Includes: 109 hand-written manuscript leaves, numbered 1-107 because there is a part two for pages 56 and 67. Apparently a draft for a textbook about hygiene, as most chapters end with questions. Each leaf measures 11½x7½. Loose within a folded period sheet of paper. Some smudging. * La Vie de J.H. Fabre Naturaliste. Photograph plates. 437, [2] pp. 10x6½, wrappers. Librairie Delagrave, 1902. * Legros, C. V. Fabre, Poet of Science. 352 pp. Heliogravure portrait frontispiece. 8½x5½, red cloth. The Century Co., [1913]. * Bicknell, Percy F. The Human Side of Fabre. 340 pp. Photographs. 7¾x5, pale green cloth. The Century Co., 1923.

Jean Henri Fabre (1823-1915) was best known as an entomologist. He was a well rounded scientist who was also a teacher.