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[PLUCHE, Noël-Antoine]
Le Spectacle de la nature, ou Entretiens sur les particularités de l'histoire naturelle, qui ont paru les plus propres à rendre les Jeunes-Gens curieux, & à leur former l'esprit.
Paris, Avignon, chez les Frères Estienne & fils, puis les Frères Estienne, Pierre Delaire, 1768. 9 volumes in-12. Full contemporary marbled calf, spine ribbed and decorated, red morocco title-piece and brown morocco tomato-piece, marbled paper end-papers.
New edition of this classic which met with enormous success in the 18th century.
Numerous engraved natural history plates, most of them folded, and frontispieces engraved notably by Rouvière (some are missing in volumes 2, 3, 5 and 6).
(Condition of used bindings).
Le Spectacle de la nature, ou Entretiens sur les particularités de l'histoire naturelle, qui ont paru les plus propres à rendre les Jeunes-Gens curieux, & à leur former l'esprit.
Paris, Avignon, chez les Frères Estienne & fils, puis les Frères Estienne, Pierre Delaire, 1768. 9 volumes in-12. Full contemporary marbled calf, spine ribbed and decorated, red morocco title-piece and brown morocco tomato-piece, marbled paper end-papers.
New edition of this classic which met with enormous success in the 18th century.
Numerous engraved natural history plates, most of them folded, and frontispieces engraved notably by Rouvière (some are missing in volumes 2, 3, 5 and 6).
(Condition of used bindings).