Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature
Subtitle: Contenant l'helminthologie, ou les vers infusoires, les vers intestins, les vers mollusques, &c
By: par M. Bruguière
Contributors: Bory de Saint-Vincent, M. (Jean Baptiste Geneviève Marcellin), 1778-1846; Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de, 1744-1829; Müller, Otto Frederik, 1730-1784; Bénard, Robert, b. 1734, ill; Dall, William Healey, 1845-1927, former owner; Henderson, J. B. (John Brooks), 1870-1923, former owner; Berry, S. Stillman (Samuel Stillman), 1887-1984, former owner; Roper, Clyde F. E., 1937- , donor
Publisher: Panckoucke
Published: 1791
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 493
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Invertebrates; Worms; Mollusks; Pictorial works
Other titles: Helminthologie, ou les vers infusoires, les vers intestins, les vers mollusques, &c.; Vers testacées, à coquilles bivalves.; Mollusques testacés.; Mollusques et polypes divers.
Notes: Issued in four volumes: t. [1] (text and plates 1-189), Paris, Panckouke, 1791; t. [2] (plates 190-286), Paris, H. Agasse, 1797; t. [3] (plates 287-390), Paris, H. Agasse, An VI [1797 or 1798]; t. [4] (plates 391-488), Paris, Mme. veuve Agasse, 1816.

Text by Bruguière (prelims. and p. 1-83) and by Bory de St.-Vincent (p. 85-180), in parallel columns of French and Latin.

The publication of t. [3] and t. [4] was supervised by Lamarck.

Bruguière's contribution (p. [1]-83) is an extract, with added translation, from O.F. Müller's Animalcula infusoria, fluviatila, et maritima, published in 1786 at Copenhagen.

The text volume (t. [1]) has "septième livraison" on t.p. However, the second part of the text (p. 85-180) has the running footer "10e liv. des pl. d'Hist. nat. helminthologie, ou traite des vers."

Title varies: t. [2], Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature. 19. ptie., Vers testacées, à coquilles bivalves; t. [3]: Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature. 21. ptie., Mollusques testacés; t. [4]: Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature. 23. ptie., Mollusques et polypes divers.

Additional plates include: 107A, 107B, 107C, 431 bis, and 431 bis*. Plate 203 is misnumbered as 204.

Many of the plates are signed "Benard direxit".

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SCNHRB has 2 copies.

SCNHRB c. 1 is bound in 3 volumes (v. 1: text and plates 1-92; v. 2: plates 93-286; v. 3: plates 287-488).

SCNHRB c. 1 has bookplates: William Healey Dall; John Brooks Henderson.

SCNHRB c. 1 has pencilled annotations on many of the plates.

SCNHRB c. 2 is incomplete and bound in 2 volumes (v. 1: [4], viij, 180 p. (text); v. 2: plates 1-189 only).

SCNHRB c. 2 has stamp: S. Stillman Berry ... Redlands, California; dated in ms. ink: 9.XII.1949.

SCNHRB c. 2 has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Bequest of S. Stillman Berry. Gift of Clyde Roper.

SCNHRB c. 2 has a few pencilled annotations.

SCNHRB c. 2 is bound in old green quarter-leather with mottled paper boards; raised bands; gilt-lettered spine; and marbled endpapers.