VALMONT DE BOMARE (Jean-Christophe) - Dictionnaire raisonné - Lot 260

VALMONT DE BOMARE (Jean-Christophe) - Dictionnaire raisonné universel d'histoire naturelle: contenant l'histoire des Animaux, des Végétaux, et des Minéraux, et celle des Corps célestes, des Météores, des autres principaux phénomènes de la Nature. Avec l'histoire et la description des Drogues simples tirées des trois règnes. Paris, Chez Lacombe, 1768; in-4, frontispiece, XVI-747 + 736 + 760 + 815 pp. bound in contemporary full marbled calf, spines decorated with 5 nerves, red morocco title-pieces and green morocco giblets, painted edges, triple fillet on covers. All 4 volumes. 1 frontispiece by Sevre engraved by Prévost. Jacques-Christophe Valmont de Bomare, born in Rouen in 1731, died in Paris in 1807, was a French naturalist, best known for his Dictionnaire raisonné universel d'histoire naturelle, a 6-volume encyclopedia that played a major role in the natural history of the 1760s. His first work was the Catalogue d'un cabinet d'histoire naturelle, a draft of the Dictionnaire universel d'histoire naturelle (1764), which was well received in Europe, without any new approach, but with the merit of clarity and understanding. A good edition of this natural history classic....