ARGENVILLE DEZALLIER. THE NATURAL HISTORY LIGHTENED... Lot 26

[ARGENVILLE DEZALLIER]. THE NATURAL HISTORY LIGHTENED IN ONE OF ITS MAIN PARTS, ORYCTOLOGYWhich deals with land, stones, metals, minerals and other fossils. Paris, De Bure, 1755. 3 parts in one vol. in-4, marbled calf, spine ribbed and ornamented, red morocco title coin (contemporary rel.). Second edition, partly original, illustrated with 26 plates out of text. This text was part of Dezallier's great treatise, La Conchyliologie, published in 1742. Ex-libris of Madame Colin de Saint-Marc at Coulommiers. Tiny freckles on the frontispiece, slight angular wetting. Rubbing, split jaws, trimmed corners.