Costa (Emanuel Mendes da). A Natural History of Fossils, 1st edition, 2nd issue, London: L. Davis & C. Reymers, 1757, engraved plate as frontispiece, cancel title, list of subscribers, some spotting to first & last leaves, contemporary speckled calf, red morocco title label, light cracking at head & foot of spine, joints and extremities a little rubbed, 4to (Qty: 1) The single plate is often bound as a frontispiece. Mendes da Costa based this book on his extensive fossil and mineral collection, and the book established him as a respected member of the scientific community. The first-issue title referred to 'Volume 1, Part 1', and although a second volume was suggested, it never appeared.
Costa (Emanuel Mendes da). A Natural History of Fossils, 1st edition, 2nd issue, London: L. Davis & C. Reymers, 1757, engraved plate as frontispiece, cancel title, list of subscribers, some spotting to first & last leaves, contemporary speckled calf, red morocco title label, light cracking at head & foot of spine, joints and extremities a little rubbed, 4to (Qty: 1) The single plate is often bound as a frontispiece. Mendes da Costa based this book on his extensive fossil and mineral collection, and the book established him as a respected member of the scientific community. The first-issue title referred to 'Volume 1, Part 1', and although a second volume was suggested, it never appeared.
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