Mémoires pour servir a l'histoire naturelle des petrifications dans les quatre parties du monde
Subtitle: avec figures, et divers indices aussi methodiques que nécessaires
Contributors: Cartier, Pierre, author; Bourguet, Louis, 1678-1742; Néaulme, Jean, 1694-1780, bookseller; Dall, William Healey, 1845-1927, former owner
Published: 1742
Language: fre
Number of pages: 163
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Petrifaction; Paleontology
Other titles: Histoire naturelle des petrifications
Work titles: Traité des pétrifications
Notes: Also issued under title: Traité des pétrifications, with P. Cartier--Cf. British Museum catalogue.

Title printed in red and black; woodcut title ornament, head- and tail-pieces, initials; side-notes.

Signatures: a-b⁴ A-V⁴ X² 2A-L⁴ M².

Includes bibliographical references ("Indice de plusieurs auteurs, qui ont écrit sur les pétrifications": pages 20-28, 3rd page count) and index.

Catalogue of the books, manuscripts, maps and drawings in the British Museum (Natural History), volume 1, page 78 & 214

extracted picklist 20081216 BHLEX

SCNHRB copy (39088005591482) has bookplate: William Healey Dall, Division of Mollusks Sectional Library. Property stamp on preliminary leaves: Division of Mollusks Sectional Library.

SCNHRB copy bound in brown library buckram, title in gilt on spine.