ORNITHOLOGY. TOUSSENEL (Alphonse): The Spirit of Beasts. The World of Birds. Passionate Ornithology. Paris, Librairie Phalanstérienne, 1853-1855; three volumes in 8°, 484 pp., 412 pp. and 372 pp. half brown basane, spine ribbed and decorated with a repeated iron with a bird, blue and green chagrin title and greef. Binding of the period. ORIGINAL EDITION of this famous book since its publication. If he was a formidable polemicist, utopian socialist disciple of Fourier, Toussenel shows there a fine observation of birds.