Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature
Subtitle: dédié et présenté a M. Necker, ministre d'état, & directeur général des finances : Cetologie
By: par M. l'abbé Bonnaterre
Contributors: Bénard, Robert, 1734- engraver; Panckoucke, Charles Joseph, 1736-1798, bookseller; Kellogg, Remington, 1892-1969, former owner; Library of Congress
Series: [Encyclopédie méthodique]; Encyclopédie méthodique
Published: 1789
Language: fre
Number of pages: 28
Subjects: Cetacea; Early works to 1800; Pictorial works; Encyclopedias
Other titles: Cétologie
Notes: "Avec approbation et privilége du roi."

Edited by Bonnaterre; see Braunrot & Hardesty Doig.

Sherborn, C. Davies, and B.B. Woodward. "On the Dates of Publication of the Natural History Portions of the 'Encyclopédie Méthodique.'" The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 7, no. 17 (1906).

Issued as part of Encyclopédie méthodique. Plates signed: Benard direxit.

Woodcut title ornament, tail-piece.

Text in double columns.

Signatures: a-e⁴ f1 A-C⁴ D².

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Braunrot & Hardesty Doig. Encyclopédie méthodique (Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century, 327 (1995): 1-153), page 138

Catalogue of the books, manuscripts, maps and drawings in the British Museum (Natural History), page 527-528

extracted picklist 20081216 BHLEX

SCNHRB has three copies.

SCNHRB c. 1 (39088002274132) stamped on title page: Library of Congress Smithsonian Deposit May 12 1879 [manuscript accession no.] 100862.

SCNHRB c. 1 half bound in red sheepskin and red pebbled cloth; title in gilt on spine, Library of Congress property stamp at foot of spine, marbled edges and endpapers; housed in an archival box.

SCNHRB c. 2 (39088002274116) stamped on front paste-down: Remington Kellogg, Library of Marine Mammalogy Smithsonian Institution.

SCNHRB c. 2 has 1 leaf of a French liquor advertisement laid-in.

SCNHRB c. 2 quarter bound in brown paper boards and cream-colored cloth spine.

SCNHRB c. 3 (39088002274124) half bound in modern maroon cloth and marbled boards, printed paper spine label; measures 28 cm, trimmed with the occasional lost of text.