Le miroir de l'art et de la nature : qui represente par des planches en taille douce presque tous les ouvrages de l'art & de la nature, des sciences & des métiers : en trois languages, françoise, latine, & allemande /

Of engravings that are signed, most are by M.F. with a few by Crespy (Jean Crépy).Terms are keyed to the plates, and appear in 3 parallel columns per page in French (Roman type), Latin (Italic), and German (Gothic).Mode of access: Internet.Library's copy has bookplate of William Horatio Crawford centered on front pastedown. Below it is label with monogram SPS. On recto of front free endpaper is bookplate of Robert George Windsor-Clive, Earl of Plymouth (?engraved by George Taylor Friend, 1881-1969). T.p. is signed in black ink at upper right corner by George Augustus Sala, and dated at Brighton, 1895.Binding: brown goatskin over pasteboard. Cover outlined with triple gold fillet; double fillet on edges of boards; gold dentelles, incorporating at foot of front pastedown the binder's name: R. Petit. Spine gold tooled, with title: FRANQUEVILLE / [rule] / MIROIR // PARIS / 1691. The edges gilt.Map of Europe on p. 193 printed upside down