L'Histoire naturelle éclaircie dans une de ses parties principales, la conchyliologie, qui traite des coquillages de mer, de rivière et de terre [...]. Augmenté de la zoomorphose, ou Représentation des animaux à coquilles, avec leurs explications. Nouvelle édition enrichie de figures dessinées d'après nature [...].

2 parts in 1 vol., 4to: xxii-394, [4]-84-cvii-[1] pp.; 41 pl. (occasional foxing, some margins stained, wormhole restored in the 3 last engr. of 1st part, wormholes in the lower margin in the end).

Cont. half mottled calf, marbled paper covers, gilt ruled spine on raised bands (covers and edges rubbed, spine and joints more slightly, lower turn-in def., corners bumped).

Second edition, partly original (1st ed.: 1742, 33 pl.), of an illustrated inventory and classification of shells in 18th-c. France. The part "Zoomorphose", i.e. description of the animals that inhabited the shells, is new. Complete with the engr. ills: frontispiece by Chedel after Boucher and 41 full-page pls. Each pl. at the expenses of a Duke, a landgrave, i.a. duc de Sully, Bonnier de Lamosson, comte de Meurcé, baron de Wind, etc. Copy with wide margins. Ref. Barbier II-819. - Nissen, ZBI, 145. Prov. Van den Hoeven, 1848 (ms. entry). - Ms. note in French on the author and the work.