Sigaud de la Fond. Dictionnaire des merveilles de la nature. 1781.
First edition
[SIGAUD DE LA FOND, Jean-René].
Dictionnaire des merveilles de la nature.
Paris, Imprimerie de Chardon, 1781.
300 €
Two 8vo (193x125 mm), (2)-iv-493-(1bl.) / (2)-476-(3)-(1bl.) pages.
binding: Contemporary full mottled calf, spine gilt in six compartments, title and volume number in gilt on lettering-pieces (chipped), red edges, marbled endpapers.
Headlcap of volume 2 a little chipped.
First edition.
Collection of curiosities encountered in both nature and humans. Salamanders, magnetism, mététores, extraordinary pregnancies, subterranean fires, ...
FINE COPY.
