BERTRAND Elie. DICTIONNAIRE UNIVERSEL DES FOSSILES... Lot 12

BERTRAND Elie. DICTIONNAIRE UNIVERSEL DES FOSSILES PROPRES ET DES FOSSILES ACCIDENTALS, containing a description of earths, fables, salts, sulphurs, bitumens, stones and compound stones, common & precious, transparent & opaque, amorphous & figured, minerals minerals, metals, petrifications of the animal & vegetable kingdoms etc., with researches on the formation of these fossils, their origin, uses, etc. A LA HAYE, GOSSE et PINET, 1763. Two volumes, in-8, XXXII pp. 284 pp. - (2) ff. 256 pp. in full contemporary spotted calf bindings. Spines spines entirely covered with gilded decoration, each bearing two pieces of basane for the title, red edges. red edges. Small chip in corner of first cover of second volume. A good copy. A summa for paleontology in the Age of Enlightenment, in the first edition produced in The Hague, before the Avignon edition, which is a copy. a copy. In False Title: DICTIONNAIRE ORYCTOLOGIQUE UNIVERSEL.