L'Histoire naturelle âeclaircie dans une de ses parties principales, la conchyliologie
Subtitle: qui traite des coquillages de mer, de riviere et de terre : ouvrage dans lequel on trouve une nouvelle mâethode Latine & Franðcoise de les diviser : augmentâe de la zoomorphose, ou reprâesentation des animaux a coquilles, avec leurs explications
Contributors: Boucher, Franðcois, 1703-1770, ill; Chedel, Pierre Quentin, 1705-1763, engraver; Dall, William Healey, 1845-1927, former owner
Edition: Nouvelle edition, enrichie de figures dessinâees d'apráes nature. Par M*** des Sociâetâes Royales des Sciences de Londres & de Montpellier.
Publisher: Chez De Bure l'Aãinâe ...
Published: 1757
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 379
Subjects: Mollusks; Shells
Other titles: Conchyliologie
Notes: By Dezallier d'Argenville.

Originally published (1742) as part of L'histoire naturelle âeclaircie dans deux de ses parties principales, la lithologie et la conchyliologie (i.e., in a single volume dealing with both mineralogy and conchology); in later eds. the two subjects were split into individual books (Oryctologie and Conchyliologie), revised and expanded, and issued as independent works.

Plate 1 (frontispiece, pt. 1) is signed: Boucher in.; Chedel sculpsit.

Part 1 includes plates numbered 1 through 29; pt. 2 includes plates numbered 1 through 9; an appendix mentioned in S.P. Dance's Shell collecting (p. 308) contains 3 plates (however, the appendix is wanting in the Cullman Library copy).

Head- and tail-pieces (some signed "VLS" or "J in ¹" or "J"), initials, side-notes. Vignette on t.p., which is printed in red and black.

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

Signatures: a-bp4 scp4 s(-c4) A-3Bp4 2sA-p2sKp4 2sLp2 2sa-p2scp4 sd-np4 sop2s.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nissen, C. Zoologische Buchillustration, I, 145

extracted picklist 20081216 BHLEX

SCNHRB copy 39088010945418 is imperfect: appendix with 3 plates depicting rare shells is wanting.

SCNHRB copy has bookplate: Ex libris William Healey Dall, Division of Mollusks Sectional Library, 1902 USNM.

SCNHRB copy has an unidentified armorial stamp on front paste-down endpaper, with motto: Virtute duce; stamp on verso of t.p.: Smithsonian Library, May 12, 1958.

SCNHRB copy has a contemporary full leather binding with gilt-tooled spine, raised bands, and red edges; housed in a later archival paperboard portfolio for preservation.