Histoire abregee des Coquillages de Mer, de leurs Moeurs, et de leurs Amours a few page only with

a few page only with old marginal damp stains

Pictorial color laminated boards (hardcover)

but they were never formally organized into his encyclopedia

light foxing to endpapers

Original printed tan boards with one-quarter cloth spine

Histoire abregee des Coquillages de Mer, de leurs Moeurs, et de leurs Amours a few page only withPp. [iv], viii, 202, engraved headpiece, 21 engraved plates printed in bistre, contemporary French marbled calf expertly rebacked, gilt title and panels on spine, marbled endpapers, 4to. This romantic conchology, specifically addressed to female readers as a subject worthy of their study. The text is a mlange of natural history observations, remarks on the use of shells in commerce and art, and moral parables drawn from the life of molluscs. The