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

Pluche, Noel Antoine] translated by Humphreys

Published by J Pemberton, R Francklin and C Davis, London, 1736

About this Item

1st editin of volume 2 (volumes 3 was published in the same year and volume 4 in 1739) but complete in itself, the volume on gardening, appears to be the 1737 2nd edition (matches ESTC T131957) although date on title is M.DCC.XXXVI. (1736), it is possible that it is a first edition as no edition is stated but if so it is not listed by ESTC, ix [i] [ii-publisher's list] 387 [1-publisher's list]pp, frontispiece and 34 folding plates, modern calf spine with gold lettering (creased down the middle), marbled boards, new endpapers, some marginal water staining with a few leaves partially slightly frayed to edge, paper flaw to page 341, ex lib (Hull Mechanics Instuitute) with small ink stamps on plates and title, modern woodcut bookplate on front pastedown, 8vo (12x20cm).

Seller Inventory # 8256

Bibliographic Details

• Title: 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
• Publisher: J Pemberton, R Francklin and C Davis, London
• Publication Date: 1736
• Binding: Quarter-leather
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Eighteenth Century
  • Gardening and Botany pre 1900
  • Antiquarian