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Le voyageur naturaliste, ou Instructions sur les moyens de ramasser les objets d'histoire naturelle : & de les bien conserver : avec des observations propres à étendre les recherches relatives aux connoissances humaines en général

by: Lettsom, John Coakley, 1744-1815; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790; Brownrigg, William, 1712-1800; Farish, William, 1759-1837; Boutrois, Philibert, active 1775-1814, engraver

Publication date: 1775

Topics: Natural history, Natural history, Biological specimens, Geological specimens

Publisher: A Amsterdam ; et se trouve à Paris : Chez Lacombe ...

Collection: biodiversity

Contributor: Smithsonian Libraries

Language: French

The leaf of plates is signed: Boutrois sculp

Head- and tail-pieces

Signatures: pi² a¹² A-I¹² ²a¹² b¹⁰ (b10 blank)

With a half-title

"L'Art de calmer les flots de la mer, ou Épreuves des effets de l'huile sur les vagues de la mer": p. [2] (5th group)-p. 42 (6th group), is described in the caption title (p. [1], 6th group) as "extraites de différentes lettres de M. Benjamin Franklin ..., M. Villiam Brownrigg ..., & M. Farish, lues dans une assemblée de la Société royale de Londres, le 2 Juin 1774."

Includes bibliographical references and index

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SCNHRB copy 39088010585867 has contemporary full mottled leather binding with gilt-tooled spine, marbled endpapers, and red edges; with a green silk ribbon page-marker

SCNHRB copy has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Purchased from the Cullman Library Endowment

Notes

No copyright page found. Title page creased, obscuring text.

Addeddate: 2017-06-14 16:57:22

Associated-names: Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790; Brownrigg, William, 1712-1800; Farish, William, 1759-1837; Boutrois, Philibert, active 1775-1814, engraver