Spectacle de la nature: . or, nature display'd. Being discourses on such particulars of natural history as were thought most proper to excite the curiosity, and form the minds of youth. ... Illustrated with copper plates. Vol. I. (-IV). Translated from the original French.
abbé Noël Antoine Pluche (1688-1761)
Category
Books
Date
1739
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Chastleton House, Oxfordshire
NT 3096694
Summary
Bibliographic description
vol. 4 only, plates . maps . 12mo.. Provenance: Bookplate of 'Martha Venables Vernon' [(Franks 30346), possibly Martha Venables-Vernon (1715-1794), nee Harcourt, 3rd wife of George, 1st Baron Vernon of Kinderton]. Binding: Eighteenth-century sprinkled calf, gold-framed, gold-ruled spines. Upper board loose.
Makers and roles
abbé Noël Antoine Pluche (1688-1761) Jean Baptiste de Freval