Title
L'histoire naturelle éclaircie dans une de ses parties principales, l'oryctologie : qui traite des terres, des pierres, des métaux, des minéraux, et autres fossiles : ouvrage dans lequel on trouve un nouvelle méthode latine & françoise de les diviser, & une notice critique des principaux ouvrages qui ont paru sur ces matières
Title Variants
Alternative:
Oryctologie
By
Dezallier d'Argenville, A.-J. (Antoine-Joseph), 1680-1765
Chedel, Pierre Quentin, 1705-1763
, engraver.
Collin de Vermont, Hyacinthe, 1693-1761
, ill.
Type
Book
Material
Published material
Publication info
A Paris, Chez De Bure l'aîné, 1755
Notes
By Dezallier d'Argenville. Cf. Barbier.
Originally published (1742) as part of L'histoire naturelle éclaircie dans deux de ses parties principales, la lithologie et la conchyliologie (i.e., in a single volume dealing with both mineralogy and conchology); in later eds. the two subjects were split into individual books (Oryctologie and Conchyliologie), revised and expanded, and issued as independent works. See Schuh for details.
Frontispiece signed: Devermont del., Chedel sc.; most of the remaining plates are signed by Chedel as either illustrator and/or engraver.
Title page printed in red and black.
Vignette on t.p.; head- and tail-pieces; initials; side-notes.
"Analyse et notice critique des ouvrages qui traitent de la lithologie et de la conchyliologie": p. [1]-36 (3rd group).
Signatures: a-cA-4A4B².
The final leaf (4B2) is blank.
Sinkankas, J. Gemology, | I, 1680
Schuh, C.P. Mineralogy & crystallography, | I, 1549
Barbier, A. A. Ouvrages anonymes, | II, 819
Subjects
Early works to 1800
,
Mineralogy
,
Petrology
Call Number
QE362 .D49 1755
Language
French
Identifiers
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.64222
OCLC:
33301795
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