Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière, : avec la description du cabinet du roi.
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| Language: | French |
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À Paris :
De l'Imprimerie royale,
MDCCXLIX. [1749]-An XII de la république. [1803 or 1804]
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| Item Description: | First editions of all volumes. Imprint varies: volume 29: De l'Imprimerie des Bâtimens du roi, MDCCLXXXVIII; volumes 30-31: À Paris : Hôtel de Thou, rue des Poitevins [i.e. Charles-Joseph Panckoucke/Pierre Plassan], MDCCLXXXVIII-MDCLXXXIX; volumes 32-37: Chez Plassan, imprimeur-libraire, 1798-An XII. The principal authors' names (M. Daubenton, Philibert Guéneau de Montbéliard, and M. le comte de La Cépède) are not present on the title pages of volumes 1-24, but are given in tables of contents. Volume 1-15 have only general title pages. Volume 16-24 have only special title pages with a general half title. Later volumes have only special title pages. "Supplément" volumes 1-7 have general title pages which in some cases state the subject of the volume. Illustrations to volumes 4-15 for the most part engraved after drawings by Jacques de Sève (t. 4, pl. 1, was drawn by J.B. Oudry; 166 plates in t. 5-16 were drawn by "Buvée l'Amériquain"; some have no artist's name). The plates in volumes 16-24 were all drawn by de Sève (though one of them is unsigned). The plates in volumes 30-31 were drawn by de Sève, except volume 31, pl. 2, 3, 5, 10, and 15, drawn by his son Jacques Eustache de Sève (who also engraved volume 31, pl. 19). Plates in volumes 32-26 includes plates drawn by de Sève and J.E. de Sève, as well as a number without an artist's name. Plates in volume 37 include 6 drawn by de Sève, the rest without an artist's name. Plates in the Supplément, except for 5 without an artist's name, were all drawn by de Sève (including one with "De Seve" as engraver's signature, and 7 engraved by J.E. de Sève). De Sève also designed most of the engraved headpieces (including all of those with decorative frames) above the first page of text in volumes published up to 1789. Pagination: volume 1: [6], 612 pages, [3] leaves of plates; volume 2: [4], 603, [1] pages, VIII leaves of plates (1 folded); volume 3: [4], 530 pages, XVII leaves of plates; volume 4: xvj, 544 pages, XXIII leaves of plates; volume 5: [4], 311, [1] pages, LII leaves of plates, [1] folded; volume 6: vj, [2], 344 pages, LVII leaves of plates; volume 7: [6], 378, [2] pages, XLVIII leaves of plates; volume 8: [6], 402, [2] pages, LIV leaves of plates; volume 9: [6], 375, [1] pages, XLI leaves of plates; volume 10: [6], 368, [2] pages, LVII leaves of plates; volume 11: [4], 450, [2] pages, XLIII leaves of plates; volume 12: [2], xvj, [4], 451, [1] pages, LVII leaves of plates; volume 13: [6], xx, 441, [3] pages, LIX leaves of plates; volume 14: [6], 411, [1] pages, XLI leaves of plates; volume 15: [6], 207, [1], cccxxiv, [2] pages, XVIII leaves of plates; volume 16: [8], xxiv, 496 pages, XXIX leaves of plates; volume 17: [10], 560 pages, XXVII leaves of plates; volume 18: [4], iv, [12], 502, xcvj, [2] pages, XXXI leaves of plates; volume 19: xvj, 590, xxviij p., XXVII leaves of plates; volume 20: xv, [1], 546, xxviij p., XXII leaves of plates; volume 21: [2], xvj, 702, [2] pages, XXV leaves of plates; volume 22: [4], xvj, 554, xcvj p., XXXI leaves of plates; volume 23: [4], viij, 498, xlij p., XXXIX leaves of plates; volume 24: viij, 438, xxx, 284 pages, XXXI leaves of plates; volume 25: [4], 557, [1], xl p.; volume 26: [4], 602, xxvj p.; volume 27: [6], 636, xix, [1] pages; volume 28: [6], 448, xxxix, [1] pages; volume 29: vij, [1], 368 pages; volume 30: 651, [1] pages, XLI leaves of plates; volume 31: [4], 8, [1], 6-19, [1], 527, [1] pages, XXII leaves of plates; volume 32: [4], cxlvij, 8, 532 pages, 1 folded table, 25 leaves of plates; volume 33: [4], lxiv, 632 pages, 20 leaves of plates; volume 34: [4], 16, lxvj, 558 pages, 34 leaves of plates; volume 35: xliv, 728 pages, 16 leaves of plates; volume 36: lxviij, 803 pages, 21 leaves of plates; volume 37: xliv, 329 pages, 16 leaves of plates. "Supplément à l'Histoire naturelle": volume 1: [6], 542, xxviij, [2] pages, 16 leaves of plates (1 folded); volume 2: [6], 564, xxxiv, [2] pages; volume 3: [10], 330, xxi p., LXV leaves of plates; volume 4: [8], 582, xx p., VI leaves of plates; volume 5: [2], viij, 615, [1], xxviij p., VI, [2] leaves of plates (6 folded); volume 6: viij, 405, [1], xxv, [1] pages, XLIX leaves of plates (2 folded); volume 7: 8, ix-xx, 364 pages, LXXXII leaves of plates. Includes indexes (volumes 15, 18, 19, 20, 22, 23, 24, 26, 27, 28, 30, 31; Suppl. volumes 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7.). Errata lists in several volumes at end. Volume 5 of Histoire naturelle des minéraux consists entirely of "Traité de l'aimant et de ses usages", with an accompanying atlas of 8 folded "cartes magnétiques" and 2 folded tables described on pages 363-366 of the text. LC copy forms part of the Jefferson Exhibit Collection. Imperfect: plates wanting; volumes 32-37 wanting; Supplément volume 3 wanting. Volume 1-3 of Library of Congress copy are Seconde édition (1750). |
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| Physical Description: | 44 volumes : illustrations, maps, portrait (engravings) ; 27 cm (quarto) + 1 atlas. |
| Place of Publication: | France -- Paris. |