Bruguière, J. G. — Encylopedie Methodique. Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature. Contenant l'helminthologie, ou les vers infusoires, les vers intestins, les vers Mollusques, &c.

Paris, Panckoucke, 1791. Large 4to/Folio (plates) (32.2 x 24.2 cm). 50 pp. (numbered 83-132). 94 finely engraved plates (numbered 96-189) of which twelve double-sized (110, 112, 116, 119, 124, 125, 136, 140, 159, 177, 184, 185). Original boards. Spine with printed label. = The second of five atlas parts. All are rare. This part being devoted to starfish, brittlestars, sea urchins, sand-dollars, barnacles, bivalved molluscs (shells), chitons (8-valved shells), and many other wonderful marine organisms. Jean-Guillaume Bruguière (1750-1798) took a degree in medicine in his home town Montpellier. "In 1773 he joined Kerguelen as a zoologist on the latter's second voyage to the southern seas... He was the author of several papers on invertebrates in the first volume of the 'Actes' of the Société d'Histoire Naturelle in such eminent company as Lamarck, Bosc, Olivier, Pelletier and Cuvier. The widespread public recognition of his growing ability soon became so great that he was commissioned to supply the treatise on Vermes for the Encyclopèdie Méthodique" (Dodge, p. 484). Uncut, as issued. With the widest possible margins. Boards and spines rather worn, as often. Plate 159 with a tear into the printed area; otherwise, very good, clean without toning or spotting. Dodge, H. (1947) The Molluscan Genera of Bruguière. Journal of Paleontology 21(5): 484-492; Nissen ZBI, 4621; Schmitt, S. (2018) Inventaire des livraisons, des auteurs et du contenu de l’Encyclopédie méthodique (1782-1832).