VALMONT DE BOMARE, M.: ‘DICTIONNAIRE RAISONNE UNIVERSEL D’HISTOIRE NATURELLE’

volumes 1-5, published by Didot et al, Paris, 1764, brown leather bound with gilt tooled spines and half titles, retaining plates, together with an incomplete fourth edition of the same title lacking plates (13 volumes), and eight other antiquarian French natural history books including Anime-Martin, M.: ‘Etudes de la Nature’, four volumes with attractive grained leather binding (25)

Provenance: A Dorset bibliophile.