Recueil des monumens des catastrophes que le globe terrestre a éssuiées : contenant des pétrifications dessinées, gravées et eluminées d'aprés les originaux / commencé par feu Mr. George Wolfgang Knorr, et continué par ses héritiers avec l'histoire naturelle de ces corps par Mr. Jean Ernest Emanuel Walch, ... Traduit de l'Allemand ...

Translation of "Sammlung von Merkwürdigkeiten der Natur ..." -- Cf. preface.
With added engraved t.p. in v. 1: "Lapides ex celeberrimorum virorum sententia diluvii universalis testes quos in ordines ac species distribut, suis coloribus exprimit, æriq [sed] incisos in lucem mittit et alia naturae miranda ...; and v. 1-3: "Sammlung von Merkwürdigkeiten der Natur ...".
Vol. 1 dated 1777; v. 2, sec. 2 and v. 3 dated 1775, v. 2, sec. 1 dated 1768, v. 4 dated 1778.
Includes index in v. 4.
Illustrated with an engraved portrait of Knorr and and a mezzotint of Walch in v. 1, and a total of 272 engravings of specimens by Knorr; some engravings printed in black and brown, with many of the plates hand tinted or colored throughout.
Vol. 1: 59, 156 p., [2], 38 [i.e. 57] leaves of plates + 2 engraved t.p.'s; v. 2 (pt. I): 159 p., [81] leaves of plates + engraved t.p.; v. 2 (pt. II): 268 p., [50] leaves of plates + engraved t.p.; v. 3: 203 p., [84] leaves of plates + engraved t.p.; v. 4: 124 p.
Library's copy has v. 2, pts. 1 & 2, bound separately, and v. 3 & 4 bound together.