By Dezallier d'Argenville. Cf. Barbier

Originally published (1742) as part of L'histoire naturelle éclaircie dans deux de ses parties principales, la lithologie et la conchyliologie (i.e., in a single volume dealing with both mineralogy and conchology); in later eds. the two subjects were split into individual books (Oryctologie and Conchyliologie), revised and expanded, and issued as independent works. See Schuh for details

Frontispiece signed: Devermont del., Chedel sc.; most of the remaining plates are signed by Chedel as either illustrator and/or engraver

Title page printed in red and black

Vignette on t.p.; head- and tail-pieces; initials; side-notes

"Analyse et notice critique des ouvrages qui traitent de la lithologie et de la conchyliologie": p. [1]-36 (3rd group)

Signatures: a-cA-4A4B²

The final leaf (4B2) is blank

Includes bibliographical references and index

Sinkankas, J. Gemology

Schuh, C.P. Mineralogy & crystallography

Barbier, A. A. Ouvrages anonymes

Schoyer's Books;

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SCNHRB copy 39088010945210 was acquired from the sale of the Melvin E. Jahn collection

SCNHRB copy has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Purchased from Special Collections Endowment

SCNHRB copy has a contemporary mottled full leather binding with raised bands, gilt-tooled spine, marbled endpapers, red edges, and a green silk ribbon page marker

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