Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière, avec la description du Cabinet du Roy.
Paris: De l'Imprimerie Royale [later Imprimerie des Bâtimens du Roi; Hôtel de Thou; Plassan], 1749–An XII [1804]. First edition of the first work to present natural history as a continuous secular narrative—from planetary formation through geology and mineralogy to the quadrupeds, birds, fishes, and cetaceans, and at last to the..... More
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