Antoine Pluche - Spectacle de la nature: ou entretiens sur les particularites de l'histoire naturelle o.a astronomie - 1752

The Spectacle of Nature: or, Conversations on the Particularities of Natural History. The Heavens and the Connections between the Different Parts of the Universe and Man’s Needs - Paris, Veuve Estienne, 1752 - vol. 4 - 598 pp. - leather binding with gilt spine.

Good. Some loss of leather at the head and foot of the spine; left joint split for 4 cm, right joint split for 2 cm at the top; corners exposed; crackling to the spine. Text block discolored, occasional spots, ink stain on 3 pp., a few dog-eared pages.

Includes a frontispiece and 26 folding/full-page engravings (of the 27?) (not consecutively numbered—as issued) - all illustrated

Treatise on sight, light, globes, the sun, the telescope, physics...

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