Author: Pluche, Noël Antoine, Abbé. [WITH THE DATED BOOKPLATE OF JOHN WOODROFFE, M.A., ENGRAVED BY J. SKINNER, SCULPT].
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 form the minds of youth.
Description: Dublin: Printed for Edw. Exshaw, at the Bible on Cork-Hill, 1742. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. Four volumes. Incomplete; volume four only. Sixth edition. On title-page of volumes 1-2: Translated from the original French by Mr. Humphreys. Volume 4 translated by John Baptist de Freval. The eighth volume of the original does not appear to have been translated into English. Includes indexes. Contemporary calf. With maps and plates, some folding. With the dated bookplate of John Woodroffe, M.A. engraved by J. Skinner, sculpt. ESTC N24029. On the bookplate, see Walter Hamilton's 'Dated Book-Plates (Ex Libris) with a treatise on their origin and development, London, A. & C. Black, 1895, p. 69. Good.

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