La conchyliologie, ou, Histoire naturelle des coquilles de mer, d'eau douce, terrestres et fossiles
Subtitle: avec un traité de la zoomorphose, ou, représentation des animaux qui les habitent, ouvrage dans lequel on trouve une nouvelle méthode de les diviser
By: par M. Desallier d'Argenville ... ; ouvrage considérablement augmenté de planches en taille-douce, qui représentent les figures de plus de deux mille testacées, dessinées d'après nature, accompagnées de descriptions étendues & de remarques sur chaque famille, avec plusieurs tables systématiques & des nomenclatures étrangeres
Contributors: Favanne de Montcervelle, M.; Favanne, Jacques de, 1716-1770, ill; Berry, S. Stillman (Samuel Stillman), 1887-1984, former owner; Roper, Clyde F. E., 1937- , donor; Dall, William Healey, 1845-1927, former owner; Henderson, J. B. (John Brooks), 1870-1923, former owner
Edition: Troisieme édition, dédiée au Roi par MM de Favanne de Montcervelle, pere & fils.
Publisher: Chez Guillaume de Bure fils aìne, libraire...
Published: 1780
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 84
Other titles: Conchyliologie; Histoire naturelle des coquilles de mer, d'eau douce, terrestres et fossiles; Histoire naturelle des coquilles
Notes: Planned to appear in 5 v.; no more published. Cf. Quérard, J.M. France littéraire.

Plates signed "Jac. de Favanne pinx." or "Guil. de Favanne filius pinx."

"Éloge de M. Desallier d'Argenville" read at the public assembly of the Société royale des sciences de Montpellier, May 5, 1768: t. 1, p. [ix]-xxiv.

"Avis au relieur pour placer les figures": t. 1, p. [v].

"Additions et corrections a faire aux deux premiers volumes de cet ouvrage": t. 1, p. [783]-792; "Additions et corrections a l'avertissement des éditeurs": p. [848]-857; "Additions et corrections pour le tome second": p. [858]-867; "Autres corrections pour les deux premiers volumes": p. [868].

Woodcut title vignettes, head- and tail-pieces.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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SCNHRB has two complete copies and one copy of the plates only.

SCNHRB c. 1 (39088013485263, 39088013485305) has bookplate with cipher: DFSFD [and ms. no.] 674.

SCNHRB c. 1 has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Bequest of S. Stillman Berry. Stamped on front paste-downs: S. Stillman Berry,, Redlands, California [ms. no.] 29.XI.1958.

SCNHRB c. 1 is the gift of Clyde Roper.

SCNHRB c. 1 bound in mottled calf, gilt-decorated spine with raised bands, title in gilt within red leather spine label, marbled endpapers; housed in linen-covered drop-back boxes.

SCNHRB c. 2 (39088013485347, 39088013485388, 39088013485420) has bookplate: William Healey Dall, Division of Mollusks Sectional Library. Stamped on front free endpaper, half title and t.p.: Division of Mollusks Sectional Library.

SCNHRB c. 2 stamped on verso of title pages: Office Library of the Smithsonian Institution [ms. no.] 12500.

SCNHRB c. 2 bound as 3 v. in half brown sheepskin and marbled boards, title in gilt on spine, floral-patterned endpapers.

SCNHRB c. 3 (39088013485461) consists of the plates only, with ms. t.p. and interleaved with ms. leaves with identifications; lacking portrait engraving. Bifoliums of ink ms. notes in pocket on back paste-down.

SCNHRB c. 3 has bookplate of John Brooks Henderson.

SCNHRB c. 3 has bookplate of William Healey Dall, Division of Mollusks Sectional Library. Stamped on front free endpaper: Division of Mollusks Sectional Library.

SCNHRB c. 3 in recent quarter bound in brown cloth and marbled paper boards, leather spine label with title in gilt.