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 form the minds of youth. Illustrated with copper plates / Translated from the original French [by S. Humphreys] [Anon].

  • Pluche, Noël Antoine, 1688-1761.
Date:
1733
  • Books

About this work

Also known as

Spectacle de la nature. English

Publication/Creation

London : Printed for J. Pemberton ..., N. Prevost ..., R. Franklin ..., and C. Davis ..., 1733.

Physical description

xvi, 279 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 300 pages, 6 unnumbered pages, 21 unnumbered leaves of plates (most folded) : frontispiece, illustrations ; (8vo)

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Notes

Translation by Samuel Humphreys of v. 1 of Le spectacle de la nature, by Noël Antoine Pluche
Title page in red and black
Head- and tail-pieces; initials
Page [280] (1st sequence) blank
Publisher's advertisement: [4] p. at end.
Copy 1 Note: Bookplate of Prescott Pepper and label of Battle Abbey.

References note

ESTC T131954

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