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Spectacle de la nature: or Nature display'd. : Being discourses on such particulars of natural history as were thought most proper to excite the curiosty, and form the minds of youth. : Illustrated with copper-plates.

Noël Antoine Pluche, Samuel Humphreys, John Baptist De Freval
Print Book, English, 1766-1770
The tenth ed
Printed for L. Davis and C. Reymers, J. Rivington, J. Buckland, R. Baldwin ... [and 6 others], London, 1766-1770
Early works
7 v. : ill. ; 18 cm. (12mo)
14267640
Early works
Natural history
Natural history Pre-Linnean works
Sciences naturelles Ouvrages prélinnéens
Dedication in v. 2 signed: Samuel Humphreys; in v. 4: John Baptist de Freval
Translation of the author's Le spectacle de la nature, ou, Entretiens sur les particularités de l'histoire naturelle
Includes indexes
HRC copy imperfect: wanting v. 1 and 6; description based on v. 2; v. 3 is the ninth edition, 1765; v. 5 and 7 are the fifth edition, revised and corrected, 1770 (ESTC t131942 and t131940)
Advertisement of R. Baldwin, [1] leaf at end of v. 4