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Item Details
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| Author: |
[Pluche, Noel Antoine] Humphreys, [Samuel], translator |
| Title: |
Spectacle de la Nature: or, Nature Display'd. Being Discourses on such Particulars of Natural History as were thought most proper to Excite the Curiosity, and from the Minds of Youth |
| Place: |
London |
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Printed for J. Pemberton |
| Date: |
1736 |
| Item # : |
172267 |
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331 |
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176 |
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| Hunting - Sporting - Angling - Natural History; with Books in All Fields |
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05/11/2006 |
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1pm PST |
| Low Estimate |
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$ 200 |
| High Estimate |
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$ 300 |
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| Description: |
| Volume II (of 2) only. ix, [3], 387, [1] pp. Translated from the original French by Samuel Humphreys. With 33 (of 34) folding copper-engraved plates; plus copper-engraved frontispiece. 8vo. Period full calf. |
| Appears to be lacking plate No. IX. Edition not stated on title page, which is lettered in black and red. |
| Condition: |
| Some staining and edge wear to leather and endpapers, joints tender, tear to head of spine; occasional light foxing; contents very good or better with a good binding. |
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