171 - Jacques-Christophe VALMONT DE BOMARE (1731–1807),
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Jacques-Christophe VALMONT DE BOMARE (1731–1807), A Comprehensive Encyclopaedia of Natural History, containing the history of animals, plants and minerals, and that of the celestial bodies, meteorological phenomena and other principal phenomena of nature, Paris, Lacombe, 1768. 7 volumes in-4, marbled calfskin, decorated spine, marbled edges, contemporary binding, Volumes 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9. H: 17.5 cm; W: 11 cm; D: 4.4 cm Worn caps, minor damage and slight losses, scattered foxing. The naturalist, apothecary and traveller Valmont de Bomare (1731–1807) was director of the Prince of Condé’s cabinet of physics and natural history at Chantilly. His *Dictionnaire d’histoire naturelle* (Dictionary of Natural History), published in 1764 and reprinted until 1800, served as a model for all works of its kind.

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171 - Jacques-Christophe VALMONT DE BOMARE (1731–1807), See original version (French)

171 - Jacques-Christophe VALMONT DE BOMARE (1731–1807),
See original version (French)