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, Henry le Gras, 1657.

8vo. Contemporary full limp vellum. First inner hinge cracked. (16), 607 pp. Slightly brownspotted. Many wood-engraved illustrations in the text.

The work deals with curiosities of nature, minerals, animals, flowers, metals, pharmaceuticals, architecture, mathematics, music etc.etc.

Order-nr.: 13543