Histoire naturelle, générale et particuliere des mollusques animaux sans vertèbres et a sang blanc ouvrage faisant suite aux Œuvres de Leclerc de Buffon, et partie du cours complet d'Histoire naturelle rédigé par C.S. Sonnini par Denys-Montfort
6 volumes, 72 leaves of plates illustrations (etchings) 22 cm
Type:
Classification
Pictorial works
Date:
1802
1805
Notes:
Half-titles
Illustrations drawn by Denys de Montfort and by De Seve; etchers include Hubert, Duhamel, and Berthault, among others
In the French Republican calendar, "An X" extended from Sept. 23, 1801 to Sept. 23, 1802; "An XIII" extended from Sept. 23, 1804 to Sept. 23, 1805. The exact months in which this publication began and ended are unknown
Published as a continuation of Buffon's Histoire naturelle
Publisher's advertisements on versos of half-title pages
Publisher's device on title pages
Tomes 1-4 inclusive, dated "An X", were written by de Montfort; tomes 5-6, dated "An XIII", were written by Felix de Roissy
Catalogue of the books, manuscripts, maps and drawings in the British Museum (Natural History), vol. 3, page 1340
Nissen, C. Zoologische Buchillustration, 1081
Also available online.
SCNHRB has two copies.
SCNHRB copy 1 (39088008863961, 39088008978892, 39088008978603, 39088008863524, 39088008979155, 39088008978546) has stamp on front paste-down endpapers: S. Stillman Berry ... Redlands, California; date added in manuscript ink: 3.VII.1957.
SCNHRB copy 1 has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Bequest of S. Stillman Berry, gift of Clyde Roper.
SCNHRB copy 1 has original orange paste-paper-covered paperboard bindings, with printed paper spine label; printer's waste as paste-down endpapers; uncut and unopened; housed in archival boxes.
SCNHRB copy 2 (39088003164738, 39088008962516, 39088008962573) has bookplates of William Healey Dall, Division of Mollusk Sectional Library. Divison of Mollusk property stamp throughout.
SCNHRB copy 2 bound as 3 volumes in dark red library buckram, title in gilt on spine.