Histoire naturelle [...] traduite en françois, avec le texte latin rétabli d'après les meilleures leçons manuscrites; accompagnée de notes critiques pour l'éclaircissement du texte, & d'observations sur les connoissances des anciens comparées avec les découvertes des modernes.

12 vol., 4to (foxing, some pp. sl. browned, occ. spotting to some ff., marg. damp stain in 2nd part of vol. V).

Contemp. marbled calf, gilt orn. spines with raised bands, red edges (most of joints partly split and heads & tails missing or with lacks, rubbed, some scratches).

Imposing 1st edition of Pliny's Natural history, with the Latin text and the French transl. by Louis Poinsinet de Sivry (1733-1804). Commented a.o. by the naturalist Jean-Étienne Guettard (1715-1786).
Ref. Brunet IV-717/718. - Conlon 71:1264.
Prov. Antoine-Jean Terray (1751-1794), lawyer, "Intendant" of Lyon. He was guillotined with his wife at the Barrière du Trône (bookpl., one pasted on another one in vol. II and another detached). - Cannac (armorial bookpl.). - Alfred Lavachery (copper-engr. bookpl. on laid paper). - Mod. bookpl.