"Antoine Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville - La conchyliologie ou histoire naturelle des coquilles Chez Guillaume de Bure à Paris, 1780 - Third and final edition of this great natural history classic, complete with its two volumes of text and atlas of plates. The often mismatched set is here in uniform period bindings, full calf with title-pieces on the spines, noting some spotting and tears. The set is nevertheless in condition, with traces of moisture on some pages, complete with frontispiece after François Boucher and 80 black plates of shells after De Favannes. In-4, (6) (60) 878pp, (6) 848pp".

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