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VALMONT DE BOMARE. (Jacques-Christophe). Dictionnaire Raisonne Universel D'Historie Naturelle, Contenant L'Histoire Des Animaux, Des Vegetaux et Des Mineraoux, et celle des Corps celetes, des Meteores, et des autres princiapux Phenomenes de la Nature... Quartrieme Edition, revue et considerablement augmentee par l'Auteur.
Lyon: Chez Bruyset Freres, 1791. In fifteen volumes. Fourth edition, corrected and enlarged. 8vo., full contemporary calf, raised bands, leather spine labels, With an engraved frontispiece in volume one. Foot of the spine of volume five and head of volume nine chipped, calf rubbed and worn off in places on some of the covers but this is still a very good set. Catalogue of the Library of the British Museum Natural History, p. 2192.
Jacques-Christophe Valmont de Bomare [1731-1807] French scientist whose works on "natural history made him one of the most influential popularizers of natural history studies in France during the later years of the Enlightenment." In 1762 he published "Mineralogie...." in which he described and classified minerals. His most important work was the above "Dictionnaire" first published in 1764 in five volumes. Four enlarged editions appeared, the last in fifteen volumes in 1800. "Valmont de Bomare's Dictionnaire was highly successful in encouraging the popular study of natural history , and it served as a model for all similar works."