Lo Spettacolo della Natura, esposto in varj Dialoghi Non meno eruditi, che ameni, concernenti La Storia Naturale. Tomo I and Tomo II [Two volumes bound in one]

Venezia: Presso Giambatista Pasquali, 1740. Very Good. Venezia: Presso Giambatista Pasquali, 1740. Early Italian Edition. Two octavo volumes bound in one. xxiii, 221pp, [1] page errori; vii; 248pp. 16 plates to volume I; 9 plates to volume II, complete; some fold-out; plate 8 from volume II misbound at page 122. Full vellum boards with leather spine label; red sponging to edges. Text in Italian ("Toscana"). Wear with loss along top edge of boards, possibly (appropriately given the subject matter?) bio-predation; general spotting and smudging. Binding sound and pages unmarked; a Very Good and still sound copy of the first two volumes of Pluche's popular natural history work.