Author: PLUCHE (Noel-Antoine):
Title: Spectacle de la Nature: Or Nature display'd. Being Discourses On such Particulars of Natural History As were thought most proper to Excite the Curiosity, and From the Minds of Youth. Illustrated with Copper Plates. Translated from the Original French, By Mr. Humphreys. The Seventh Edition, Revised and Corrected.
Description: London, Printed for R. Francklin, C. Davis...[et al], 1750. 2 volumes. Large 12mo, pp. xxiv, 323 [324 - 335 Index, 336 - 340 adverts]; viii, 312, engraved frontispiece in each volume, 24 other engraved plates (most folding) in volume 1, 34 folding engraved plates in volume 2, contemporary calf (dried and rubbed), gilt spines; some plates in volume 2 soiled and adversely affected at folds. With the contemporary armorial bookplate of The Honble. James Berkeley Rodney on the front paste-down end-paper of each volume and his autograph on the title-pages. The complete set of this translation, which Humphrys completed in 1784, eventually ran to seven volumes. There is a section on vines and wine in volume 2, pp. 214 - 257, with engraved plates of wine presses. Most of the plates have to do with the natural sciences or technology in some way. Pluche's work was first published in French in 1732.

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