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..
Pluche, Noël Antoine,1688-1761.
Humphreys, Samuel,1698?-1738.
London: : Printed for J. Pemberton in Fleet-Street, N. Prevost in the Strand, R. Franklin in Covent-garden, and C. Davis in Pater-noster Row.,
MDCCXXXIII [1733]..
A translation by Samuel Humphreys of vol. 1 of Noël Antoine Pluche's 'Le spectacle de la nature'.
Titlepage in red and black.
In two parts: pt. 1 dialogues I-IX, pt. 2 dialogues X-XV.
With two advertisement leaves, explanation of the plates and index.
"The alterations made in this second edition are of two kinds" (p.xv).
ESTC
Natural history