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. Translated from the original French, by Mr. Humphreys.
abbé Noël Antoine Pluche (1688-1761)
Category
Books
Date
1736
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire
NT 3123932
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2],24,458,[2]p.,plates . 8vo.. Provenance: Eighteenth-century armorial bookplate, Curzon impaling Colyear, signed 'P. Mazell': 'Recte et Suaviter' (Franks 7705 2nd state- fine text) [Sir Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Baron Scarsdale (1726-1804) m. 1750 Lady Caroline Colyear]. manuscript inscription on title page: M Curzon [probably Mary Assheton (1695-1776), m. 1716 Sir Nathaniel Curzon (1676-1758) 4th Bt]. Binding: Eighteenth-century full sprinkled leather binding; double blind fillet border; spine gilt decorated and spine label gilt lettered: "Nature Display'd 3".
Makers and roles
abbé Noël Antoine Pluche (1688-1761) Samuel Humphreys (1698-1738)