Essai sur l'histoire naturelle des corallines
Subtitle: et d'autres productions marines du même genre, qu'on trouve communément sur les côtes de la Grande-Bretagne et d'Irlande : auquel on a joint une description d'un grand polype de mer, pris auprès du pole arctique, par des pêcheurs de baleine, pendant l'été de 1753
By: par Jean Ellis ... ; traduit de l'anglois
Contributors: Allamand, Jean Nicolas Sébastien, d. 1787; Kirk, James, engraver; Mynde, J., fl. 1740-1770, engraver; Roberts, Henry, ca. 1710-ca. 1790, engraver; Wells, John West, 1907-1994, former owner
Publisher: Chez Pierre de Hondt
Published: 1756
Place of publication: A La Haye
Language: fre
Number of pages: 125
Subjects: Ctenophora; Marine animals; Bryozoa; Cnidaria
Other titles: Essai des coral
Work titles: Essay towards a natural history of the corallines
Notes: Translation revised by J.N.S. Allamand.

Some plates signed: H. Roberts sculp.; James Kirk sc.; J. Mynde sc.

Binder's title: Essai des coral.

Signatures: *2*A-Q.

Title printed in red and black.

The final 3 pages are publisher's advertisements.

"Description du microscope aquatique de Mr. Cuff" --P. 124-125.

Errata: p. xij.

extracted picklist 20081216 BHLEX

Stamp on frontispiece verso and t.p.: VB in circle.

Bookplate: Ex libris, John W. Wells.

Signed on front free endpaper: J.W. Wells, '46.

Bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Gift of Ellen B. Wells in memory of John West Wells.

Bound in old full leather; gilt-tooled spine; re-backed.