BURTIN, François-Xavier. Oryctographie de Bruxelles ou Description des Fossiles ... découverts ... dans les environs de cette ville, [Brusssels:] Le Maire for the author, 1784, 2°, FIRST EDITION, engraved title by A. Pris after M. Speechaert, 32 plates, hand-coloured over a brown engraved base by Pris, J. A. Balconi and others (first plate lightly spotted, plate VIII with a small tear to lower margin), contemporary mottled sheep, spine gilt (head and tail of spine chipped, the head neatly repaired, corners bumped). [Nissen ZBI 769]
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BURTIN, François-Xavier. Oryctographie de Bruxelles ou Description des Fossiles ... découverts ... dans les environs de cette ville, [Brusssels:] Le Maire for the author, 1784, 2°, FIRST EDITION, engraved title by A. Pris after M. Speechaert, 32 plates, hand-coloured over a brown engraved base by Pris, J. A. Balconi and others (first plate lightly spotted, plate VIII with a small tear to lower margin), contemporary mottled sheep, spine gilt (head and tail of spine chipped, the head neatly repaired, corners bumped). [Nissen ZBI 769]
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Fürstlich-Starhemberg'sche Familien Bibliothek Schloss Eferding, stamp to endpaper.
Lot Essay
AN ATTRACTIVE COPY.
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