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Catalogue systématique et raisonné, ou, Description du magnifique cabinet appartenant ci-devant à M. le c. de *** : ouvrage intéressant pour les naturalistes, & pour les amateurs de l'histoire naturelle à cause de sa nomenclature & de la nouvelle méthode de conchyliologie, de polyptologie, de zoophytologie, d'ichtyologie, &c., à laquelle on a ajouté la synonymie spécifique du systême de Linné & la citation des planches gravées d'un ouvrage exact qui traite de chacune de ces parties, afin de spécifier l'objet dont on a fait mention : le tout enrichi de figures en tailles douces, dont la plupart des objets n'ont pas encore été gravés

by: Favanne de Montcervelle, M; La Tour d'Auvergne, comte de; Jaminet, J., ill; Dall, William Healey, 1845-1927, former owner. DSI

Publication date: 1784

Topics: Shells, Natural history, Natural history

Publisher: A Paris : De l'Imprimerie de Quillau ...

Collection: biodiversity; americana

Contributor: Smithsonian Libraries

Language: French

Cabinet owned by the comte de La Tour d'Auvergne; sales catalogue compiled by M. Favanne de Montcervelle. Sale to be held 19 April & days following

Woodcut title ornament, head- and tail-pieces

Errata: on p. [1]-[2], last group

Signatures: aA-2M

Includes bibliographical references

extracted picklist

SCNHRB has two copies

SCNHRB c. 1 (39088013485602) has ink ms. markings in margins

SCNHRB c. 1 stamped on verso of t.p.: Smithsonian Institution National Museum Dec 18 1950 [acc. no.] 344707

SCNHRB c. 1 has bookplate of William Healey Dall, Division of Mollusks Sectional Library. Stamped on t.p.: Division of Mollusks Sectional Library

SCNHRB c. 1 bound in sheepskin with gilt triple fillets at borders of boards, title in gilt within red leather spine label, marbled edges and endpapers; housed in an archival cardboard box

SCNHRB c. 2 (39088013485644) lacking 1st blank leaf

SCNHRB c. 2 stamped on t.p.: Division of Mollusks Sectional Library. Blind-stamped on a3r: U.S. National Museum Division of Mollusks Dall Collection

SCNHRB c. 2 blind-stamped on t.p.: Smithsonian Institution National Museum [ms. acc. no.] c215864

SCNHRB c. 2 half bound in red leather and marbled paper boards (lacking front cover), title in gilt on spine, marbled edges and endpapers; housed in an archival cardboard box