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Dictionnaire universel d'histoire naturelle : résumant et complétant tous les faits présentés par les encyclopédies, les anciens dictionnaires scientifiques, les oeuvres complètes de Buffon, et les ... traités spéciaux sur les diverses branches des sciences naturelles ...

by: Orbigny, Charles d', 1806-1876, editor

Publication date: 1847

Topics: Natural history -- Dictionaries, Natural history -- Pictorial works, Zoology -- Dictionaries, Science -- Dictionaries, Botany -- Dictionaries

Publisher: Paris : Chez les Éditeurs MM. Renard, Martinet et Cie : et chez Langlois et Leclercq : Victor Masson ; Leipzig : Mêmes maisons : chez L. Michelsen

Collection: biodiversity

Contributor: Smithsonian Libraries

Language: French

Volume: t.1 (1847)

13 volumes ; 25 cm +

First edition published in 1837

The edition with volume 1, dated 1847, has some volumes title pages ranging in date from 1843 to 1846, from earlier issues. Title pages vary in different copies but all have text from the same setting of type--Cf. Sherborn, C. Davies and T.S. Palmer, "Dates of Charles d'Orbigny's 'Dictionnaire Universel d'Histoire Naturelle', 1839-1849," The Annals and magazine of natural history, vol. 3, 1899

Half-titles

"Imprimerie de L. Martinet"--Verso of half-titles

Plates, steel or stipple engraved, variously signed by artists, engraved by Fournier; with guard tissues

Errata: last leaf of volume 1, last page of volume 2

Notes

No copyright page found. No table-of-contents pages found.

Addeddate: 2019-10-09 15:10:30

Associated-names: Masson, Victor, 1807-1879, bookseller; Martinet, L., printer; Lubrecht, Harry, 1908-1997, donor; Renard, Martinet et Cie, bookseller; Langlois et Leclercq, bookseller