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Ireland - BOATE (Gerard). Histoire naturelle d'Irlande, contenant une description tres exacte de sa situation, de sa grandeur, de sa figure, de la nature de ses Montagnes, de ses Forests, de ses Bruyeres, de ses Marais & de ses terres labourables [...] Paris, Robert de Ninville, 1666. In-12 brown calf, spine ribbed and decorated, gilt title (period binding). Very small loss at tail cap. First edition of the French translation by Pierre Briot. A fine copy. "This author's notions on the different branches of natural history are more sound than one should expect from the time he wrote: his descriptions, moreover, are clear and exact". (Boucher de La Richarderie III, 306-307). Bookplate Mme Guillebon de Neuilly. Bookplate JM.

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Ireland - BOATE (Gerard). Histoire naturelle d'Irlande, contenant une description tres exacte de sa situation, de sa grandeur, de sa figure, de la nature de ses Montagnes, de ses Forests, de ses Bruyeres, de ses Marais & de ses terres labourables [...] Paris, Robert de Ninville, 1666. In-12 brown calf, spine ribbed and decorated, gilt title (period binding). Very small loss at tail cap. First edition of the French translation by Pierre Briot. A fine copy. "This author's notions on the different branches of natural history are more sound than one should expect from the time he wrote: his descriptions, moreover, are clear and exact". (Boucher de La Richarderie III, 306-307). Bookplate Mme Guillebon de Neuilly. Bookplate JM.

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