Histoire du ciel, ou l'on recherche l'origine de l'idolâtrie et les méprises de la philosophie, sur la formation des corps célestes, & de toute la nature. Nouvelle édition.

(Pluche, L'Abbé))

Chez les Frères Estienne, Paris, 1771

2 vols. 12mo (17x10,5 cm). 19th century green half calf bindings, spines gilt in compartments, covers with decorated paper (sl. rubbed); marbled endpapers. 560 and 520 pp. with frontispiece and 23 (of 25) engraved plates. (Numbered I-XXIV and VII Suppl) - (X and XXI missing). - Tome premier: xxxvii (plan de l'ouvrage), ii (ordre des planches), i (explication frontispiece), 518 (text with plates), ii Privilège) pp. - Tome second: iv,515, i (Approbation) pp. - Plates show mythological figures and symbols of the Greeks and Egyptians. -Unfortunately 2 plates missing but a good set in attractive bindings. (Convent stamp on first blank leaves)