Encyclopedia metodica. Historia natural de los animales : traducida del Frances al Castellano por D. Gregorio Manuel Sanz y Chanas

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Notes

Translation of: Encyclopédie méthodique, Histoire naturelle des animaux, par M. Daubenton, M. Maudit & M. Gueneau de Montbeillard.

The 'Encyclopédie méthodique' was an enlarged edition of Diderot's Encyclopédie, arranged as a system of separate dictionaries by the publisher, Panckoucke.

Ten physical vols. on selected topics were translated into Spanish from the French original, 1788-1794--Cf. Palau y Dulcet (2nd ed.), 79542.

Tomo 2 has subtitle: Historia natural de la aves, traducida del frances al castellano por D. Joseph Mallent.

First leaf of each gathering signed: Historia Natural, Tom. I[-II].

Subscribers' list: t. 1, p. [3]-[10] at front; supplementary list: t. 2, p. 628-629.

Woodcut title vignettes, head- and tail-pieces.

Palau y Dulcet (2nd ed.) 301310

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SCNHRB copy (39088013485982, 39088013486022) has booklabels of Don Josef de Armesto y Segovia.

SCNHRB copy has inscribed in ink on front free endpapers and stamped on back endpapers: Paul Leverkühn.

SCNHRB copy stamped on verso of t.p.'s: Smithsonian Institution National Museum Feb 28 1907 [ms. acc. no.] 197942.

SCNHRB copy bound in mottled sheepskin, title in gilt within red and green leather spine labels, gilt-decorated spine with raised bands, red edges, marbled endpapers; t. 2 housed in an archival cardboard box.

Contents

Tomo 1. Historia natural del hombre, por Mr. Daubenton. Animales quadrupedos y cetaceos. Ornitologia, por Mr. Mauduyt: A-E -- t. 2. Ornitologia, F-Z. Animales quadrúpedos ovíparos y serpientes, por Mr. Daubenton

Data Source

Smithsonian Libraries

Date

1788

Call number

QL9 .E56 1788

QL9.E56 1788

Author

Daubenton M (Louis-Jean-Marie) 1716-1799

Mauduyt M (Pierre-Jean-Claude) d. 1792

former owner

Leverkühn, Paul 1867-1905 DSI

Type

Dictionaries

Early works to 1800

Physical description

2 v. ; 31 cm. (fol.)

Title

Encyclopedia metodica, dispuesta por orden de materias

Historia natural de los animales

Topic

Natural history

Mammals

Ornithology

Record ID

siris_sil_419614

Usage

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