Description: (MINERALOGY -- PETRIFACTION.) Antoine Joseph Dezaillier d'Argenville. L'Histoire Naturelle Eclaircie dans une de ses Parties Principales, l'Oryctologie, qui Traite des Terres, des Pierres, des Metaux, des Mineraux, et Autres Fossiles. Including frontispiece, 26 full-page engraved plates illustrating various gems and minerals, coral formations, fossils of human, fish, woods and other plant life, as well as newly-discovered American birds and fish. 4to, 11½x8½ inches, lightly rubbed contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine with morocco lettering piece; a clean copy with nice provenance: Earl of Macclesfield Shirburn Castle armorial bookplate to front pastedown and embossed blindstamp to the first three leaves. Paris: Chez du Bure, 1755