Spectacle de la nature, or, Nature delineated : being philosophical conversations : wherein the wonderful works of Providence, in the animal, vegetable and mineral creation are laid open, the solar and planetary system, and whatever is curious in mathematicks, explain'd : the whole being a complete course of natural and experimental philosophy, calculated for the instruction of youth, in order to prepare them for an early knowledge of natural history, and create in their minds an exalted idea of the wisdom of the Great Creator / translated from the original French, by John Kelly ... D. Bellamy ... and J. Sparrow ... ; the whole embellish'd with a great variety of copper-plates, beautifully engraved by the best hands.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pluche, Noël Antoine, 1688-1761.

Contributor:

Kelly, John, 1680?-1751.

Bellamy, D. (Daniel), 1687-

Sparrow, John, active 1740-1758.

Standardized Title:

Spectacle de la nature. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Natural history--Pre-Linnean works.

Natural history.

Natural history--Juvenile literature.

Genre:

Juvenile literature -- England -- 18th century.

Booksellers' advertisements -- England -- 18th century.

Penn Provenance:

Parker, Nathaniel (autograph)

Physical Description:

4 volumes : illustrations ; 18 cm (12mo)

Edition:

The fifth edition, with large additions, carefully revised and corrected, with a particular table of contents, and a general copious index to each volume.

Other Title:

Spectacle de la nature.

Nature delineated.

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for Stanley Crowder ..., 1760.

Notes:

The author is identified in the editors' preface as Abbé Le Pluche.

"Books printed for James Hodges ..." on last eight pages of v. 1.

Local Notes:

Imperfect: v. 1 only.

Cited in:

ESTC T119868

OCLC:

21932253