(Natural Sciences). Valmont de Bomare. "Universal... Lot 39

(Natural Sciences). Valmont de Bomare. "Universal reasoned dictionary of natural history containing the history of animals, plants and minerals and that of celestial bodies, meteors and other main phenomena of nature. With the history and description of simple drugs from the three kingdoms. Chez Brunet, 1775, set of 6 volumes in-4 bound in the full speckled calf of the time, spine with ornate nerves. Red morocco title and giblets. Color endpapers. Complete with the frontispiece showing Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, while the serpent threatens... Two headpieces a little fragile, a slight lack of leather at the foot of one volume, corners slightly dulled, boards a little rubbed. A good copy well bound in the elegant in-4 format.