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