Antoine Pluche - Spectacle de la nature: ou entretiens...

Spectacle of Nature: or Conversations on the Particularities of Natural History. - Paris, widow Estienne & Fils, 1752 - part 7 - 555 (5); 436 (2), 388 (2) pp - leather with gilded spine - 17 x 10.5 cm Good. very slight leather loss at the head and tail of the spine, right hinge brittle. Interior browned, here and there a spot. Some wormholes. Contains frontispiece and all 33 folding/large-format engravings including: roofs, capstan block, diamond polishers, lead foundry, crushing mill, oil presses, wax bleaching, making wax candles, making wax tapers, casting of mirror glass, grinding and polishing of mirror glass, forming and casting of a clock, calibration of a clock, tools for coinage, pendulum work of a spring, clockwork and pendulum work with a weight, number of engravings of writing through the ages - all depicted. Engraving of St. Nicaise with edges curled, creases in two engravings To be sent by registered mail

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