BONNATERRE (Pierre Joseph). Tableau encyclopédique et method - Lot 544

BONNATERRE (Pierre Joseph). Tableau encyclopédique et methodique des trois regnes de la nature. Dedicated and presented to M. Necker, Minister of State, Director General of Finance. Cetologie - [Erpetologie - Ophiologie]. Paris, Panckoucke, 1789 [-1790]. In-4°. 80 [/81] plates bound at end, including 7 double-page plates. Marbled fawn basane, spine with 5 fleuronné bands, t.p. in red and green morocco, red edges (period binding). Cetaceans (10 single and 2 double plates); Reptiles: Frogs (7 plates), Turtles (6 plates), Crocodiles, Lizards, Salamanders, etc. (13 plates); Snakes (plate A and 41 [/42] plates including 5 double plates [plate 27 lacking, small marginal tear on plate 23 without affecting the design, wetness on plates 36 to 41]. Accidents with a few chips to the binding, some wetness to the text.