Traité des petrifications

by Louis Bourguet, and, Pierre Cartier

$5,000 · Offered by Rootenberg Rare Books

First edition

Paris: Briasson, 1742. Two parts in one. 4to. xvi, 163; 91, 3 pp. FIRST EDITION. With half-tile to second part, approbation and errata. With engraved chapter vignettes and 60 folding plates. Contemporary tree calf, elaborate gilt-decorated spine slightly chipped at head and foot ; endpapers printed in purple floral pattern, occasional browning in text and on edges of plates, heavier on preliminaries. Contemporary signature

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