Catalogue systématique et raisonné, ou, Description du magnifique cabinet appartenant ci-devant à M. le c. de ***
Subtitle: ouvrage intéressant pour les naturalistes, & pour les amateurs de l'histoire naturelle à cause de sa nomenclature & de la nouvelle méthode de conchyliologie, de polyptologie, de zoophytologie, d'ichtyologie, &c., à laquelle on a ajouté la synonymie spécifique du systême de Linné & la citation des planches gravées d'un ouvrage exact qui traite de chacune de ces parties, afin de spécifier l'objet dont on a fait mention : le tout enrichi de figures en tailles douces, dont la plupart des objets n'ont pas encore été gravés
By: par M. de ***
Contributors: La Tour d'Auvergne, comte de.; Jaminet, J., ill.; Dall, William Healey, 1845-1927, former owner
Publisher: De l'Imprimerie de Quillau ...
Published: 1784
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 558
Subjects: Shells -- Catalogs and collections -- France -- Paris -- Early works to 1800.; Natural history -- Catalogs and collections -- France -- Paris -- Early works to 1800.; Natural history -- Catalogs -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.; Catalogs and collections; Catalogs
Other titles: Catalogue systématique et raisonné; Description du magnifique cabinet appartenant ci-devant à M. le c. de ***
Notes: Cabinet owned by the comte de La Tour d'Auvergne; sales catalogue compiled by M. Favanne de Montcervelle. Sale to be held 19 April & days following.

Woodcut title ornament, head- and tail-pieces.

Errata: on p. [1]-[2], last group.

Signatures: aA-2M.

Includes bibliographical references.

extracted picklist 20081216 BHLEX

SCNHRB has two copies.

SCNHRB c. 1 (39088013485602) has ink ms. markings in margins.

SCNHRB c. 1 stamped on verso of t.p.: Smithsonian Institution National Museum Dec 18 1950 [acc. no.] 344707.

SCNHRB c. 1 has bookplate of William Healey Dall, Division of Mollusks Sectional Library. Stamped on t.p.: Division of Mollusks Sectional Library.

SCNHRB c. 1 bound in sheepskin with gilt triple fillets at borders of boards, title in gilt within red leather spine label, marbled edges and endpapers; housed in an archival cardboard box.

SCNHRB c. 2 (39088013485644) lacking 1st blank leaf.

SCNHRB c. 2 stamped on t.p.: Division of Mollusks Sectional Library. Blind-stamped on a3r: U.S. National Museum Division of Mollusks Dall Collection.

SCNHRB c. 2 blind-stamped on t.p.: Smithsonian Institution National Museum [ms. acc. no.] c215864.

SCNHRB c. 2 half bound in red leather and marbled paper boards (lacking front cover), title in gilt on spine, marbled edges and endpapers; housed in an archival cardboard box.