Catalogue raisonné d'une collection considerable de diverses curiosités en tous genres
Subtitle: contenuës dans les cabinets de feu Monsieur Bonnier de la Mosson, bailly & capitaine des chasses de la Varenne des Thuilleries & ancien Colonel du regiment dauphin
By: Par E.F. Gersaint
Contributors: Bonnier de la Mosson, Joseph, 1702-1744; Jahn, Melvin E.
Publisher: Chez J. Barois ... et P.-G. Simon ...
Published: 1744
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 234
Subjects: Art collections; Catalogs; Private collections; Natural history collections; Natural history; Decorative arts; Catalogs and collections
Other titles: Catalogue raisonné
Notes: Frontispiece signed: Boucher jnu.; Duflos sculp.

Head- and tail-pieces; initial.

Signatures: pi²ab²A-TV.

Errata on final leaf.

Purchase; Schoyer's Books; $2000.00.

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SCNHRB copy 39088010945319 has bookplates: 1. Ex libris Melvin Edward Jahn; with Jahn's[?] monogram stamp on front paste-down endpaper and t.p.; numbers stamped in book: 219 (p. j, 2nd group); 9548 (back paste-down endpaper); 2. Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Purchased from Special Collections Endowment.

SCNHRB copy has a contemporary quarter-leather binding with brown tree-stained paper boards; gilt-lettered orange paper spine label; and blue sprinkled edges.
Table of contents: title: (from t.o.c.) Cabinet d'anatomie; title: Cabinet de chimie ou laboratoire; title: Cabinet de pharmacie ou apoticairerie; title: Cabinet des drogues; title: Cabinet du tour & des outils propres à differens arts & métiers; title: Cabinet des animaux en phioles, avec quelques mineraux ...; title: Cabinet des insectes & autres animaux dessechez, contenant aussi des fossiles ...; title: Cabinet de mécanique & de physique ...; title: Cabinet des coquilles; title: Estampes & recüeils sur l'histoire naturelle & autres sciences; title: Tableaux; title: Bronzes & bustes de marbre; title: Porcelaines montées & non-montées; title: Meubles curieux & bijoux.