Spectacle de la Nature: or, Nature Display'd; Being Discourses on Such Particulars of Natural History: Volume III
Author:
PLUCHE, NOEL ANTOINE & HUMPHREYS, Mr SAMUEL (Trans)
Title:
Spectacle de la Nature: or, Nature Display'd; Being Discourses on Such Particulars of Natural History: Volume III
Publisher:
Printed by A Reilly, for Edw. Exshaw, at the Bible on Cork Hill, M,DCC,XLII (1742)
Description:
THIS VOL ONLY, sm octavo, brown leather boards, gilt lettering to spine (rubbed off) with raised bands also, frontispiece, 400pp, illus, G+ (heavy cracking to front & rear hinges/gutters- front board shaky, leather peeling from front board, other moderate rubbing & soiling/chafing to boards & spine, heavy tannin & soiling to page edges, ex-libris plate to front pastedown, prev. owner's details in ink to ffep, moderate foxing & soiling throughout, illus opp. pg61 has heavy creasing & chipping to edges)
Keywords:
antiquarian books leather bindings natural history Noel Antoine Pluche historical
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