First published under title Lettres physiques et morales sur les montagnes et sur l'histoire de la terre et de l'homme in 1778.

Imprint varies: v. 2, À la Haye : Chez de Tune ..., MDCCLXXX; v. 3 and 5, À la Haye : Chez de Tune ... ; et à Paris : Chez la v. Duchesne ... MDCCLXXIX; v. 4, Paris : Chez la v. Duchesne ... ; et à la Haye : Chez de Tune ..., MDCCLXXIX.

Vol. 5 has continuous pagination and signatures, but is divided at p. 448 by insertion of half title and title page for "Tome V, Partie II."

Vol. 1: VIII, 430 p. (1st leaf blank); v. 2: 339, [1] p. (1st leaf blank); v. 3: 560, [1], 561-566, [1] p. (1st leaf blank); v. 4: [2], 640 p.; v. 5: [2], 448, [5], 450-772 p.

LC copy forms part of the Jefferson Exhibit Collection.

Sowerby, E.M. Cat. of the lib. of Thomas Jefferson, 643

LC copy gift of Jerry and Gene Jones, 27 May 1999. Has address labels of A. La Rocque, Columbus, Ohio; and ink stamps of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, with its deaccessioning stamp.