Lettre de M. Derome Delisle, a M. Bertrand. Sur les polyps d’eau-douce

by Jean-Baptiste Louis RomÉ De L’Isle

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8vo. 19 x 10 cm , 58 pp. including title-page first leaf blank . Bound in red marbled wrappers. Title toned and a bit soiled with two small ink-spots, not affecting text, toning in the margins of some leaves; nevertheless generally good, with some leaves uncut and with original deckle edges. Very rare first and sole edition of the first treatise published by the pioneering French mineralogist Jean-Baptiste Romé de L’Isle 1736-1780 , and his

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