Essai Sur Lhistoire Naturelle Des Corallines Et Dautres Productions Marines De Meme Genre Quon

by John Ellis

$13,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

First edition

xvi, 125 pp., 3 pp. of publisher’s ads. Large 4to, cont. mottled calf a few careful repairs to upper joint & corners , triple gilt fillet round sides, spine gilt, red morocco lettering piece on spine, a.e.g. The Hague: P. de Hondt, 1756. First edition in French 1st ed., in English: 1755 ; this is one of the few copies which has fine and delicate contemporary coloring. Ellis ca. 1710-76 , whom Linnaeus termed a “bright star of natural history”

• Binding: Leather

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