FRANCOIS, RENÉ.

Essay des Merveilles de Nature, et des plus Nobles Artifices. Piece tres-necessaire à tous ceux qui sont profession d'Eloquence. Treiziesme Edition, Revueue, Corrigée, & augmentée de nouueau.

Paris, Dugast, 1646.

8vo. In contemporary full sprinkled calf with five raised bands and richly gilt spine. Edges of boards gilt. Traces from small paper-label to upper part of spine. Wear to extremities, a few holes to spine corners bumped. Title-page with underlignings in red. Vague dampstain to inner margin. (16), 607 pp. with numerous woodcuts in text.

Twelfth edition of this highly popular work on the curiosities of nature, minerals, animals, flowers, metals, pharmaceuticals, architecture, mathematics, music etc.etc.

Order-nr.: 61108