Author: Pluche, Noël Antoine, Abbé.
Title: Le spectacle de la nature, ou entretiens sur les particularités de l'histoire naturelle, qui ont paru les plus propres à rendre les jeunes-gens curieux, & à leur former l'esprit.
Description: A Paris: Chez les Frères Estienne, rue S. Jacques, à la Vertu, 1764-1765. 0. Hardcover. Duodecimo. Eight volumes in nine. I: xxiv, 561, [iii]pp.; II: xxiv, 468pp.; III: [ii], 576pp.; IV: 621, [i]pp.; V: [iv], 596, [iv]pp.; VI: [iv], 61, [iii]pp.; VII: [ii], 555, [v]pp.; VIII: [iv], 436, [ii]pp.; IX: [iv], 388, [iv]pp. With the half-titles present to volumes three, five through nine. Volumes one through three dated 1764; the others are dated 1765. Contemporary mottled calf. Some wear to the bindings. Illustrated. From the library of R. H. Alexander Bennet, with his bookplate. This probably refers to the father, as his son had the same name. A precursor of Diderot's Encyclopédie. Although there are many sets in the trade, a good number of them are made up from various editions. This is an original set. Good.

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