Paris, Panckoucke, 1797. Large 4to/Folio (plates) (32.2 x 24.2 cm). Half-title, title page; 97 finely engraved plates (numbered 190-286), of which five [199, 200, 203, 208, 248) double-sized. Original boards. Spine with printed label.

The third of five atlas parts. All are rare. This part being devoted to bivalves, including oysters, and brachiopods, including fossil species. 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; otherwise, very good, the plates 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).