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. III. Translated from the original French.
abbé Noël Antoine Pluche (1688-1761)
Category
Books
Date
1737
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Erddig, Wrexham
NT 3207093
Summary
Bibliographic description
v.3 (24,456p.),plates ; 8vo. Bound uniformly and shelved with vol. 1 of the 3rd ed. (1736) and v. 2 of the third ed. (1737). Provenance: Nineteenth-century armorial bookplate, lettered "Erthig"; "Michell Bond St", with mark of cadency [associated with Simon Yorke III (1811-94) of Erddig, son of Simon Yorke II and Margaret Holland]. Binding: Eighteenth-century full sprinkled calf, double gilt fillet forming a border, sewn on three recessed cords. Five false raised bands, gilt tooling on spine. Brown leather spine label, lettered in gilt: "Nature display'd". Edges densely sprinkled red.
Provenance
Given by Philip Yorke III (1905-1978) along with the estate, house and contents to the National Trust in 1973.
Makers and roles
abbé Noël Antoine Pluche (1688-1761), author Samuel Humphreys (1698-1738)