COLLECTIVE [DETERVILLE].

COLLECTIVE [DETERVILLE]. New Dictionary of Natural History, Applied to the Arts, Primarily to Agriculture and Rural and Domestic Economy. Paris, Crapelet & Deterville, 1803–1804. 24 vols. in-8, root-stitched sheepskin, smooth spines richly decorated (contemporary binding). First edition, illustrated with 244 separate plates, 235 of which were finely colored at the time, depicting botany, mammals, ornithology, lepidoptera, etc. This dictionary was compiled by the most eminent scholars of

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