Le regne animal divisé en IX classes, ou, Méthode contenant la division generale des animaux en IX classes
Subtitle: & la division particuliere des deux premieres classes, sçavoir de celle des quadrupedes & de celle des cetacées, en ordres, sections, genres & espéces : aux quelles on a joint une courte description de chaque espéce, avec les citations des auteurs qui en ont traité, les noms qu'ils les différentes nations, & les noms vulgaires
By: par M. Brisson ... ; avec figures en taille douce
Contributors: Humblot, Antoine, d. 1758, ill; Maisonneuve, 18th cent., engraver
Publisher: Chez Cl. Jean-Baptiste Bauche ...
Published: 1756
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: mul; fre; lat
Number of pages: 382
Subjects: Animals; Classification
Other titles: Méthode contenant la division generale des animaux en IX classes; Regnum animale in classes IX. distributum
Work titles: Règne animal divisé en IX classes
Notes: Added t.p., in Latin.

"De l'imprimerie de d'Houry fils"--P. [1] (3rd group).

With two folded plates of tables, and one folded plate of ill. (ill. signed: Ant. Humblot del.; Maisonneuve sculp.).

Initials; head- and tail-pieces (some signed with a triangle; some signed "D."; and some signed "VLS").

Signatures: pi²aA-3B.

Errata on p. [1] (3rd group).

Includes indexes.

"Catalogus authorum": P. 13-15.

Text in French and Latin, in parallel columns.

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SCNHRB copy 39088010317675 is imperfect: there is a small hole through p. 133-134, affecting two lines of text on both pages.

SCNHRB copy has stamp on t.p.: Library, U.S. National Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Apr. 22, 1893; accession no.: 144656.

SCNHRB copy has modern red buckram library binding with gilt-lettered spine and purple endpapers.