PLUCHE

PLUCHE, A - LE SPECTACLE DE LA NATURE ou Entretiens sur les particularités de l'histoire naturelle, qui ont paru les plus propres à rendre les Jeunes-Gens curieux, & à leur former l'esprit. Tome Premier. Utrecht, Etienne Neaulme, 1733. Parts 1 & 2 (animals and plants) bound in 1, engraved plates, some folding and a few with early colouring, final leaf of index repaired with some text loss, modern cloth with gilt lettering; HERVEY, JAMES - MEDITATIONS AND CONTEMPLATIONS London, J Rivington, 1778. 8vo, engraved portrait frontispiece, calf with gilt-banded spine, amusing 18th/early 19th century pencil drawing to inside rear board of a pistol duel between two gentlemen; and 23 other antiquarian volumes, mainly 18th/19th century (25)