Noel PLUCHE - Le Spectacle de la Nature, ou Entretiens sur les particularités de l'histoire naturelle (The Spectacle of Nature, or Conversations on the particularities of natural history)
5 volumes in-twelfth
Brown calf leather of the period
Composite edition assembling
- Volumes I and II (Paris, Veuve Estienne, 1737)
- Volume IV (Paris, Veuve Estienne, 1739)
- Volume V (Paris, Frères Estienne, 1755, differences in binding)
- and volume VI (Paris, Veuve Estienne & Fils, 1751).
The volume VI contains « ce qui regarde l'homme en société » ("that which concerns man in society"). Numerous plates, amongst which some are unfoldable, and a frontispiece for each volume.