Dezallier d'Argenville, Antoine Joseph (1680-1765)
Dezallier d'Argenville, Antoine Joseph (1680-1765)L'Histoire Naturelle Eclaircie dans une de ses Parties Principales, L'Oryctologie, qui Traité des Pierres, des Métaux, & des Minéraux. Paris: Chez de Bure, 1755.engraved frontispiece; illustrated with twenty-six full-paged engravings of stones, fossils, minerals, corals, birds, and fish (frontis numbered and included in plate count), some marginal waterstaining, mostly faint; bound in full contemporary sponge-decorated calf, gilt-tooled spine, worn and dry, with losses at head and tail, ex libris Tytler of Woodhouselee with engraved armorial bookplate inside front board, 11 1/4 x 8 1/4 in.
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Dezallier d'Argenville, Antoine Joseph (1680-1765)L'Histoire Naturelle Eclaircie dans une de ses Parties Principales, L'Oryctologie, qui Traité des Pierres, des Métaux, & des Minéraux. Paris: Chez de Bure, 1755.engraved frontispiece; illustrated with twenty-six full-paged engravings of stones, fossils, minerals, corals, birds, and fish (frontis numbered and included in plate count), some marginal waterstaining, mostly faint; bound in full contemporary sponge-decorated calf, gilt-tooled spine, worn and dry, with losses at head and tail, ex libris Tytler of Woodhouselee with engraved armorial bookplate inside front board, 11 1/4 x 8 1/4 in.
