FAUJAS DE SAINT-FOND, Barthélemy. Histoire naturelle de la Province de Dauphiné, Grenoble & Paris: widow Giroud and Nyon & J. Cuchet, 1781, volume I only [all published], 8°, FIRST AND ONLY EDITION, 5 engraved plates, 2 folding, contemporary drab wrappers (head and tail of spine chipped), uncut, bookplate of G. J. Manget of Geneva, bookseller and wine-merchant, modern cloth box by the Heritage Bindery. [Brunet VI, 4496]

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FAUJAS DE SAINT-FOND, Barthélemy. Histoire naturelle de la Province de Dauphiné, Grenoble & Paris: widow Giroud and Nyon & J. Cuchet, 1781, volume I only [all published], 8°, FIRST AND ONLY EDITION, 5 engraved plates, 2 folding, contemporary drab wrappers (head and tail of spine chipped), uncut, bookplate of G. J. Manget of Geneva, bookseller and wine-merchant, modern cloth box by the Heritage Bindery. [Brunet VI, 4496]

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A GOOD COPY of this work which was projected in four volumes, but the present one is all that was published. It includes a substantial chapter on the wines of the Dauphiné region as well as its geology and natural history.

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