[DELISLE DE SALES (Jean-Baptiste). Philosophical history of the primitive world. Fourth original edition. Paris, s.n., an IIIe [1794]. 7 volumes in-8, red morocco, double gilt roulette, smooth spine decorated, inner lace, gilt edges (contemporary binding). Fourth edition, largely original. The first, published in 1779, was only 3 vol. in-12. This work "deals with all sorts of subjects: subterranean geography, foundations of a new cosmology, volcanoes and earthquakes, Atlantis, famous navigations of the primitive world" (Caillet). Illustrated with 18 plates outside the text, some double-page or folded, including a frontispiece portrait of the author. One of 25 copies on large paper with all the prints coloured. These copies include an engraved title page specific to each volume. A very fine copy in contemporary red morocco. Without the atlas. Some foxing on three plates. Caillet, n°2947 - Quérard, II, 457.