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Antoine-Joseph Dezallier D Argenville : L Histoire naturelle eclaircie dans deux de ses parties principales, la lithologie et la conchyliologie, dont l une traite des pierres et l autre des coquillages, ouvrage dans lequel on trouve une Nouvelle method & une notice critique des principaux Auteurs qui ont écrit sur ces matières. / Enrichi de Figures dessinées d après Nature. / Par M *** de la Société Royale des Sciences de Montpellier

De Bure l Aîné, Paris, c. 1742.

Contemporary full calf, expertly rebacked preserving original spine in six compartments of raised bands and gilt floral motifs, recent gilt red morocco title label on two, board edges gilt-tooled, edges tinted red, endpapers marbled. , Very good, plates and text are clean and crisp., Folio. , P. 492 pages. [a4, A4-3Q4]., Title in red and black inks. Complete with 33 engraved plates, as well as engraved chapter headpieces.

Alphabetical Table in Latin and French. With an extensive index, corrections and additions.
The author also edited more than 600 entries in the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d Alembert, and wrote a treatise on architecture, La Théorie et la Pratique du Jardinage. His interest in conchology, a term he conceived, was a curiosity until it became a science under the Linnaean system of classification.
, Brunet II:422.

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