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Volumes 4-9 of a 9 volume set, published Hamburg [i.e. Paris], 1751-1756.
Authorship according to Barbier.
A collection of 36 letters, the present set comprising letters 10-36.
Concerns: Histoire naturelle générale et particuliere / Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon; Observations microscopiques. / John Turberville Needham; Traité des animaux. / Étienne Bonnet de Condillac.
Title pages for v.6-9 read: Suite des Lettres a un Amériquain, sur les IVe. & Ve. volumes de l'Histoire naturelle de M. de Buffon; et sur le Traité des animaux de M. l'abbé de Condillac. Sixiéme [-Neuviéme] partie. A Hambourg [i.e. Paris]: M.DCC.LVI. [1756]
Vignette on title pages.
Vol. 5 dated 1751.
Signatures: v.4: A-G¹² H⁸ (A1 verso, D6 verso blank); v.5: A-H¹² I⁴ (-I⁴; A1 verso, I3 blank); v.6: a⁸ A-V⁸/⁴ (-V4) chi1 (a1 verso, chi1 verso blank); v.7: pi² A-V⁸/⁴ chi1 (pi1, pi2 verso, chi1 verso blank); v.8: pi² A-X⁸/⁴ Y² (-Y2) chi1 (pi1, pi2 verso, chi1 verso blank); v.9: pi² A² B-Z⁸/⁴ 2A⁴ chi1 (pi1, pi2 verso, chi1 verso blank)
Format of leaves chi1 in v.6-9 is octavo.
Volume 5, pages 193-196 misnumb.: "203, 294-295, 206"
Errata (v.6-9, p.[1] at end of each volume)
Includes scattered references to America.
Includes bibliographical references.
Sabin 41054.
Cioranescu, A. 18. s., 14820.
Cioranescu, A. 18. s., 38994.
Cioranescu, A. 18. s., 38995.
Barbier, A.A. Ouvrages anonymes, 9934.
Weller, E.O. Falsche Druckorte, 2: 130.
BN 93: 1035.
John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary half calf and marbled paper boards, in 2 v.
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