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Histoire naturelle des oiseaux.

1771122Buffon's Histoire Naturelle " One of the most important of all birds books from the collector's point of view " Stillwell 63.A magnificent copy complete with its 1 008 beautiful plates in contemporary coloring preserved in its contemporary binding.Contemporary painted calf gilt fillets on covers ribbed spine decorated with gilt fillets and gilt fleurons red yellow and green morocco lettering piece double gilt filet on leading edges inner gilt dentelle gilt edges.The most beautiful and most famous Buffon illustrated books.A very rare and magnificent copy printed on large paper and complete with its 1 008 handcouloured plates.Cohen 194 ; Nissen IV B 158 ; Brunet I 1379-1380 ; Ronsil 76.The 1 008 plates drawn by François-Nicolas Martinet 1731-1800 under Edmée-Louis Daubenton's supervision are dedicated to birds butterflies flying insects and to a few reptiles and mammals.All the plates were drawn and handcoloured at the time.Buffon decided to dedicate this separate beautiful edition to birds and ha dit printed in 4° and folio format." One of the most important of all birds books from the collector's point of view " Stillwell 63."In 1739 Buffon was appointed Director of the Jardin du Roi. It would appear that the "Natural History" germinated in the preparation of a catalogue of the royal collection. Buffon then enlarged its scope to Aristotelian or Plinian proportions and finally transformed it into a conspectus of nature of a breadth and depth previously unknown. The Natural History was a great popular success" PMM.A lot of copies are missing the insects supplement of 35 plates and only contain 973 plates. A magnificent copy belonging to the luxuous folio edition complete with its 1008 plates handcouloured at the time preserved in its contemporary binding. Copies' value depend on its number of plates and on its bindings. (Imprimerie Royale) hardcover

Librairie Amelie Sourget · France89 000,00 €

BUFFON, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de, with Louis-Jean-Marie DAUBENTON, Philibert GUENEAU DE MONTBEILLARD, Abbe Gabriel-LeopolBiblio.com

Histoire naturelle générale et particulière avec la description du Cabinet du Roy

18046665Paris: De l'Imprimerie Royale later Imprimerie des Bâtimens du Roi; Hôtel de Thou; Plassan 1804. First edition. First edition a very fine uniformly-bound contemporary set with the separately-issued and frequently-absent atlas to the Minéraux of the first work to present natural history as a continuous secular narrative - from planetary formation through geology and mineralogy to the quadrupeds birds fishes and cetaceans and at last to the human races - and the work in which across fifty-five years and four political regimes the biblical chronology that had organised European natural science since antiquity ceased to be the only frame within which educated readers could discuss the age of the earth. In the Époques de la Nature 1778 Buffon proposed seven epochs of earth history and from cooling experiments in his own forge at Montbard estimated its age at roughly seventy-five thousand years; in unpublished notes his private estimate reaches three million - the order of magnitude Lyell would later extract from stratigraphy and Darwin require for natural selection to operate.. The Founding Treatise of Secular Science. First edition of the first work to present natural history as a continuous secular narrative-from planetary formation through geology and mineralogy to the quadrupeds birds fishes and cetaceans and at last to the human races-and the work in which across fifty-five years and four political regimes the biblical chronology that had organised European natural science since antiquity ceased to be the only frame within which educated readers could discuss the age of the earth. Buffon was appointed Intendant du Jardin du Roi in 1739 at thirty-two and spent nearly half a century converting the royal cabinet of natural-history specimens into a compendium that at its close under Lacépède's hand in 1804 comprised forty-four quarto volumes more than twelve hundred engraved plates and a style so supple that Buffon's elegies on individual species remained set texts in French lycées into the twentieth century. Uniformly bound in contemporary French mottled calf and preserving all forty-four text volumes together with the separately-issued and frequently-absent atlas to the Minéraux the present copy is of a completeness and coherence uncommon in a publication whose fifty-five-year issue spanned four successive Parisian imprints. His prose made deep time habitable. Within thirty years of the final volume Lyell was writing the Principles of Geology; within sixty Darwin the Origin. Ernst Mayr called Buffon "the father of all thought in natural history" at his time; the DSB records that he "established the intellectual framework within which most naturalists up to Darwin worked." The publishing history is itself a monument. The first three volumes appeared together in the autumn of 1749 from the Imprimerie Royale sold out in six weeks were reprinted three times within the same interval and provoked the Sorbonne's faculty of theology into delivering Buffon a list of propositions judged heretical-to which Buffon submitted a carefully calibrated retraction while continuing to print the offending volumes unchanged. The initial prospectus of 1748 had promised fifteen volumes in three divisions; by the time Buffon died in 1788 thirty-five were in print a thirty-sixth was on the press and the plan of covering the vegetable kingdom had quietly been abandoned. The seventh and final Supplément appeared posthumously in 1789 through Lacépède's editorship; the fifth volume of the Minéraux containing the Traité de l'aimant had issued a year earlier from the Imprimerie des Bâtimens du Roi and was accompanied by a separately-issued atlas of folding maps and tables. Lacépède then continued the animal-kingdom programme with the Quadrupèdes ovipares et Serpens 1788-89 the Poissons 1798-An XII and the Cétacées 1804. The combined output of four imprints across three generations of Parisian printers-the Imprimerie Royale the Imprimerie des Bâtimens du Roi the Hôtel de Thou under Panckoucke and Plassan and Plassan imprimeur-libraire-makes the uniformly-bound contemporary set one of the more elusive bibliographical objects of the French Enlightenment. Volume I opens the series with the Premier Discours: De la manière d'étudier et de traiter l'histoire naturelle a forty-page frontal assault on Linnaean classification that argues from a position of mathematical and empirical rigour rare in the literature of the period that species as Linnaeus conceived them were artificial abstractions imposed on the continuous variability of individuals and that a taxonomy built on stamen-counts and pistil-counts had no purchase on nature. The attack was political as well as philosophical. Linnaeus's Systema Naturae Leiden 1735 had already been adopted as the common grammar of European zoology; Buffon's Discours delivered from within the most prestigious press in France asserted that the Swede's method was a convenience of memory mistaken for a description of the world. The volume continues with the Second Discours: Histoire et théorie de la Terre dated by Buffon himself "à Montbard le 3 octobre 1744" which proposes a cosmogony in which the planets were struck from the sun by the oblique impact of a comet and have been cooling ever since and with the Preuves de la théorie de la Terre in which Buffon develops his theory across seventeen articles and provides two engraved terrestrial maps drawn under his supervision by Robert de Vaugondy fils. These arguments delivered within a volume bearing the royal arms of France on its title-page vignette constituted the most public challenge to Mosaic cosmogony yet mounted in eighteenth-century France. The geological argument reached its mature form a generation later in the fifth Supplément the Époques de la Nature 1778 published when Buffon was seventy-one. Here he proposed seven epochs of the earth's history estimated their combined duration at roughly 75000 years and in unpublished manuscript notes pushed his private estimate to three million-an order of magnitude consistent with the timescales that Lyell would later extract from stratigraphy and that Darwin would require for natural selection to operate. The significance of the Époques is not only the number. It is the rhetorical form of the argument: Buffon marshals fossil molluscs at Alpine altitudes the decay of volcanic emissions the rate at which heated iron spheres cool in Buffon's own forge at Montbard and the distribution of living species across climate zones and weaves these into a cumulative inductive case in which each line of evidence corroborates the others. The technique is no longer antiquarian but probabilistic-Buffon had after all published a French translation of Newton's Method of Fluxions in 1740 and would publish original work on the probability that a needle tossed on a ruled floor should cross a line the problem that bears his name in modern geometric probability. When the Époques reached Edinburgh and Cambridge in the 1780s it announced to Anglophone readers that the earth's antiquity had become a quantitative problem rather than a scriptural one. The core of the programme is the animal kingdom. Volumes 4 through 15 1753-1767 treat the quadrupeds in an arrangement that combines Buffon's natural-historical essays with Daubenton's anatomical descriptions-a division of labour Buffon defended in the Preface to volume IV and that Daubenton eventually came to resent his name disappearing from the later volumes. The Oiseaux volumes numbered I-IX on their title-pages but continuously as tomes XVI-XXIV on their half-titles 1770-1783 are the work of Buffon with Philibert Guéneau de Montbeillard and the Abbé Bexon and assume decisively that geographic distribution is a datum of zoology rather than an incidental fact about individual animals-a premise that commits the Histoire naturelle to the biogeographic thinking which Alfred Russel Wallace would systematise a century later. The Minéraux volumes I-V 1783-1788 extend the account to the inorganic world and conclude with the Traité de l'aimant Buffon's last publication in his lifetime accompanied by the atlas that the present set preserves. Lacépède's eight continuation volumes close the series with the Ovipares et Serpens the Poissons five volumes 1798-An XII drawing on the manuscript collections of Philibert Commerson and the Cétacées 1804-the whole project begun under Louis XV and finished under the Consulate of Bonaparte. The plate programme numbering 1275 copper engravings including the portrait frontispiece of Buffon and twelve folding maps was entrusted principally to Jacques de Sève and his son Jacques-Eustache de Sève with additional designs by Buvée l'Amériquain Oudry and Baron and engravings by Baquoy Basan Moitte and Tardieu. De Sève père is the designing sensibility that defines the visual character of the Histoire naturelle: his quadrupeds stand in pastoral European landscapes-villages rivers mountains ruins-that place each species within a habitat rather than isolating it on the diagrammatic ground of the pre-Linnaean iconotheca. The aesthetic choice is not decorative. It performs Buffon's thesis that species are functions of geography; the elk against a Norwegian spruce-line and the jerboa against a North African dune argue in visual shorthand a zoogeography that the text elaborates. The plates in the present set are in the original uncoloured state as issued by the Imprimerie Royale and its successor presses; the hand-coloured Planches enluminées of Edme-Louis Daubenton 1765-1786 1008 plates issued separately to accompany the de luxe folio edition of the Oiseaux are a distinct publication and do not belong to the quarto edition. Buffon was born Georges-Louis Leclerc at Montbard in Burgundy on 7 September 1707 the son of a magistrate of the Estates of Burgundy who in 1714 inherited a substantial fortune from a maternal relative and acquired the lordship of Buffon - the toponym from which the future comte took the name by which he is universally known. He was educated by the Jesuits at Dijon studied mathematics at Angers and travelled in Italy and England in 1730-1733 in the company of the young Duke of Kingston and his Genevan tutor Nathaniel Hickman. Election to the Académie des Sciences followed at twenty-six in 1734. His earliest publications were French translations of Newton's Method of Fluxions 1740 and Stephen Hales's Vegetable Staticks 1735 published 1735 and an original 1733 communication to the Académie on the geometric probability of a needle dropped at random across a ruled floor - the "needle problem" that bears his name in the founding literature of integral geometry. The 1739 appointment as Intendant du Jardin du Roi secured through the patronage of Maurepas gave him the cabinet the printing privilege and the institutional platform that the Histoire naturelle required. From 1739 onward his year was strictly bisected: October to April in Paris among the specimens May to September at Montbard where the great house the gardens the ducal tower and from 1768 an industrial-scale ironworks furnished both the writing room and the experimental laboratory. The Montbard forge is the experimental backbone of Buffon's late geological writing. From 1765 onward he conducted a sustained programme of cooling experiments in which iron and stone spheres of graduated diameter were heated to incandescence and the time required for them to cool to ambient temperature was measured under controlled conditions. Extrapolating from sphere to planet on the assumption that the earth had begun as a molten body progressively congealed Buffon arrived at the published 75000-year estimate of the Époques de la Nature and at the manuscript figure three million years that he allowed his students to read but did not put into print. The forge was simultaneously a working blast-furnace producing pig-iron for the Burgundian armaments trade - the revenue from which subsidised the publication and freed Buffon from dependence on royal subvention. The orangery at Montbard housed parallel experiments on plant respiration and the germination of seeds; the great walled garden was a controlled environment for testing the hardiness of imported species against Burgundian winters. The whole estate in effect was an early instance of the gentleman-natural-philosopher's establishment as instrument - comparable in scale to Tycho's Uraniborg to Boyle's Stalbridge or to Darwin's later Down House. The Histoire naturelle is the published face of this experimental enterprise. The literary reception of Buffon was nearly as consequential as the scientific. His 1753 reception address to the Académie française the Discours sur le style "le style est l'homme même" became one of the most quoted statements of French neoclassical aesthetics and reframed the Histoire naturelle as a literary as well as a scientific monument. The set-piece elegies on the horse the lion the swan the orangutan and the dog were detached from the parent volumes and circulated as morceaux choisis; they remained obligatory recitation pieces in the French lycée through the Third Republic and were anthologised by Sainte-Beuve in the Causeries du lundi in 1855 as the model of mid-eighteenth-century French prose. Diderot read and annotated the early volumes for the Encyclopédie; Rousseau with whom Buffon's relations were polite but distant took the geographic-determinist passages as silent corroboration of his own anthropology; Voltaire who shared Buffon's anti-Sorbonne instinct but resented his court success kept up a guarded correspondence. The Smellie translation Edinburgh 1780-1785 and Goldsmith's History of the Earth and Animated Nature London 1774 an avowed abridgment carried the work into the English-speaking world where Erasmus Darwin's Zoonomia 1794-96 silently absorbed Buffon's transformist hints into its own evolutionary speculation. The afterlife of Buffon's argument runs straight through nineteenth-century evolutionary thought. Cuvier lecturing at the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle from 1795 treated the Histoire naturelle as the institutional charter of his own comparative-anatomical programme even while disputing its transformism. Lamarck who had reorganised the botanical galleries under Buffon in 1788 developed his 1809 Philosophie zoologique by extending Buffon's observations of climate-driven variability into a fully transformist mechanism. Lyell's Principles of Geology 1830-33 acknowledged in its preface that the eighteenth-century revolution in geological time had been Buffon's and Darwin in the historical sketch added to the third edition of the Origin 1861 placed Buffon at the head of the line of pre-evolutionary speculators - with the politically careful note that the Histoire naturelle had at one point been condemned by the Sorbonne. Thomas Jefferson who owned the work at Monticello Sowerby 1024 for volumes 1-31 and 637 for the Suppléments and corresponded with Buffon about American zoology was so stung by Buffon's thesis that New World fauna were degenerate forms of Old World types that he had the bones of an American moose shipped across the Atlantic to Paris as evidence in rebuttal - the most picturesque single episode in the trans-Atlantic reception history of the work. The German reception travelled along a separate but parallel channel: Goethe read the Époques in 1781 and absorbed its rhetoric of geological depth into his own morphological writing and Alexander von Humboldt whose Kosmos 1845-1862 is the nineteenth-century lineal descendant of the encyclopaedic ambition of the Histoire naturelle repeatedly cited Buffon as the founder of the genre to which he conceived his own work as belonging. The scholarly modern editions - the Imprimerie Nationale Pléiade selection of 1954 under the editorship of Jean Piveteau the 1971 Bibliothek Suhrkamp German selection edited by Jacques Roger and Roger's own 1989 Fayard biography translated as Buffon: A Life in Natural History Cornell 1997 - are all built on direct consultation of the original quarto edition of which complete uniformly-bound contemporary sets remain the necessary collation copy. The Centre international d'étude du XVIIIe siècle's Buffon: Histoire naturelle générale et particulière bibliography Pierre Lecouturier and Roger Hahn 1972 supplemented by Jeff Loveland and others through the 2010s confirms that no two contemporary sets are identical in title-page state advertisement leaves or the order of the prefatory matter and treats the uniformly-bound quarto with a complete Minéraux atlas as the bibliographical reference state for the work. References: Printing and the Mind of Man 198 Carter and Muir identify Buffon's priority in presenting the natural world as a single unified field - Dibner Heralds of Science 193 described as the most celebrated treatise on animals ever produced - Nissen ZBI 672 - Wellcome II 267 - Norman 369-370 - Brunet I 1376 Brunet recommends that collectors always seek out this first quarto edition for the beauty of its engravings - Sowerby Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson 1024 and 637 - Evans First Editions of Scientific Books Berkeley exhibition 1934 no. 97. 45 volumes 4to 242 × 188 mm comprising the 44 text volumes and the separately-issued atlas to the Minéraux. 1275 engraved plates including the portrait frontispiece of Buffon and twelve folding maps mostly by Jacques de Sève père and his son Jacques-Eustache de Sève with further designs by Buvée l'Amériquain Jean-Baptiste Oudry and Nicolas Baron engraved by Baquoy Basan Moitte and Tardieu. Uniform contemporary French mottled calf the spines gilt in compartments with small lozenge tools and two black morocco lettering-pieces triple gilt fillet on the covers marbled edges and matching Spanish-shell marbled endpapers; narrow blue silk ribbon markers at the heads of the spines. The completeness of the Minéraux atlas is unusual and the uniformity of the calf binding across four imprints and fifty-five years of publication particularly so. A very fine set of one of the most substantial publishing undertakings of the eighteenth century. . De l'Imprimerie Royale [later Imprimerie des Bâtimens du Roi; Hôtel de Thou; Plassan] unknown

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BUFFON, George Marie le Clerc, Comte DeBiblio.com

Histoire Naturelle Générale et Particuliére avec la Description du Cabinet du Roi.

55079Paris: De l'Imprimerie Royale 1749-1786. FIRST EDITION. 34 vols. 4to. 25.25 x 19.5 cm. Uniformly bound in contemporary marbled calf spines richly gilt in compartments with fleur-de-lis motifs titles to two dark red morocco labels gilt raised bands royal arms of King Louis XV stamped in gilt to upper and lower covers his monogram gilt to each spine panel triple fillet to upper and lower covers gilt inner dentelles gilt original red ribbon page markers red speckled edges marbled endpapers. Complete with 980 full-page engraved plates of which 9 are folding including frontispiece of Buffon 4 folding maps and 1 folding chart. Numerous inter-textual tables engravings and cul-de-lampes throughout. In the Histoire Naturelle plate 14 is misbound in the third volume plates 5 and 6 are swapped in the fifth volume plates 13 and 14 are swapped in the tenth volume and two plates are numbered 46 in the twelfth volume one of which is entitled 46 bis. In the Supplément two plates are numbered 18 in the third volume one of which is entitled 18 bis and plate 41 is misbound in the sixth volume. Ex libris Robinet Fils with his armorial bookplate variably to front and back pastedowns sometimes removed and his old ownership stamp variably to front and back endpapers. A very handsome set. THE COMPLETE RUN OF VOLUMES PUBLISHED AT THE IMPRIMERIE ROYALE FOR WHICH BUFFON WAS EDITOR. This set which comprises 24 volumes of the Histoire Naturelle 6 volumes of the Supplément and 4 volumes of the Mineraux represents the complete run of volumes published at the Imprimerie Royale and for which Buffon acted as editor. Two additional volumes sometimes present are lacking here. They are the fifth and final volume of the Mineraux otherwise known as the Traité de l'aimant published at the Impremerie des Batiments du Roi rather than the Impremerie Royale in 1788 and the seventh and final volume of the Supplément published in 1789 after Buffon's death. After Buffon's death work was carried on by Bernard Germain de Lacépède who published 8 further volumes on egg-laying quadrupeds snakes fishes and cetaceans between 1788 and 1804. The last set to pass through our hands included these 10 additional volumes bound slightly differently - due to the publishing span - to the 34 original volumes such as those offered here. Buffon "was the first to present the universe as one complete whole and to find no phenomenon calling for any but a purely scientific explanation" PMM. "Buffon's work is of exceptional importance because of its diversity richness originality and influence. Buffon was among the first to create an autonomous science free of any theological influence. He emphasized the importance of natural history and the great length of geological time. He envisioned the nature of science and understood the roles of paleontology zoological geography and animal psychology. He realised both the necessity of transformism and its difficulties" DSB. The "most celebrated treatise on animals ever produced" Dinber also represents the birth of evolutionary theory. "Georges Buffon set forth his general views on species classification in the first volume of his Histoire Naturelle. Buffon objected to the so-called 'artificial' classifications of Andrea Cesalpino and Carolus Linnaeus stating that in nature the chain of life has small gradations from one type to another and that the discontinuous categories are all artificially constructed by mankind. Buffon suggested that all organic species may have descended from a small number of primordial types; this is an evolution predominantly from more perfect to less perfect forms" Parkinson. Paris: De l'Imprimerie Royale, 1749-1786. hardcover

Robert Frew Ltd · Royaume-Uni25 000,00 £GB≈ 28 545,00 €

BUFFON, Georges-Louis LeclercBiblio.com

Collection des Animaux Quadrupédes de Buffon Formant 362 planches d'animaux coloriées servant à toutes les éditions des OEuvres de cet auteur; classées par ordres et genres sur le systême animal de Linné. Avec deux tables.

17656479Paris: HÃ´tel de Thou 1765. First Edition Â— Primera ediciÃ³n. Hardcover Â— Tapa dura. 247x186mm. 9Â¾x7Â¼". Paris HÃ´tel de Thou n.d. 1765. En 4º 247 x 186mm. 2 volÃºmenes. -I: 7 h. 182 lÃ¡minas. -II: 1 h. 160 lÃ¡minas. En total 362 lÃ¡minas grabadas y coloreadas a mano en la Ã©poca con la representaciÃ³n de animales. EncuadernaciÃ³n de la Ã©pocas en piel lomera cuajada de adornos dorados. Primera ediciÃ³n de una de las obras mÃ¡s raras y apreciadas de Buffon dedicada a los animales cuadrÃºpedos desconocida a Nissen y otra bibliografÃa especializada. Muy rara publicaciÃ³n separada de los grabados creados para los Animaux quadrupÃ¨des de Buffon y organizados segÃºn el sistema linneano. Todas las 362 placas han sido delicadamente coloreadas a mano en el momento de la publicaciÃ³n. La publicaciÃ³n de la monumental Histoire Naturelle de Buffon iniciada en 1749 y continuada por LacÃ©pÃ¨de abarcÃ³ un lapso de mÃ¡s de 50 aÃ±os. Su Ã©xito fue inmediato y Buffon menciona en su correspondencia que los primeros 3 volÃºmenes se agotaron despuÃ©s de solo 6 semanas. Al aÃ±o siguiente vio la luz una ediciÃ³n de menor formato. Sus ilustraciones se basaban en los mismos dibujos pero grabados sobre planchas en formato reducido. El pintor y excelente dibujante Jacques de SÃ¨ve es el artista que ha realizado la prÃ¡ctica totalidad de las imÃ¡genes de esta Histoire naturelle. La mayorÃa de los dibujos originales estÃ¡n dispersos hoy; en 1791 se vendiÃ³ una colecciÃ³n de 152 dibujos originales que habÃan pertenecido a la colecciÃ³n del conde Mirabeau. La calidad de las ilustraciones contribuyÃ³ enormemente al Ã©xito universal y la popularidad de la obra prueba de lo cual esta suite publicada por separado. Los cuadrÃºpedos estÃ¡n aquÃ clasificados por orden y gÃ©nero en el sistema animal de LinnÃ©. Esta colecciÃ³n es de gran rareza y no se menciona en ninguna bibliografÃa especializada. Para Francia el Catalogue Collectif de France indica dos copias institucionales BibliothÃ¨que nationale de France y Troyes; la base de datos KVK localiza una copia completa en Torino y un solo volumen en la Biblioteca Estatal de Rusia. Hôtel de Thou hardcover

Librería José Porrúa Turanzas · Espagne25 000,00 €

BUFFON, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Count of, and LACEPEDE (Count of).Biblio.com

Histoire naturelle générale et particulière par Leclerc De Buffon ; Nouvelle édition accompagnée de notes et dans laquelle les supplémens sont insérés dans le premier texte à la place qui leur convient. L’on y a ajouté l’histoire naturelle des quadrupèdes et des oiseaux découverts depuis la mort de Buffon celles des reptiles des poissons des insectes et des vers ; enfin l’histoire des plantes dont ce grand naturaliste n’a pas eu le tems de s’occuper. Ouvrage formant un cours complet d’Histoire Naturelle ; rédigé par C. S. Sonnini membre de plusieurs sociétés savantes.

ABAA25-37A Paris de l'Imprimerie de F. Dufart An VIII 1799/1800 - 1808.127 volumes 8vo. Calf gilt dentelle framing the covers decorated flats spines. Contemporary binding signed by P. Meslant.196 x 121 mm.The great 18th century "Natural History" by Buffon adorned with 1 166 full-page copper engravings including 2 portraits 8 maps 20 tables and 1136 engravings here in rare double state on thick Holland paper in black and facing hand-colored at the time. Quérard. La France littéraire I 558; Nissen. Zoology 682; Cohen Livres illustrés du XVIIIe siècle 194.It was one of the most ambitious and complete works of scientific literature.Buffon appointed intendant of the King's Garden in August 1730 had at that moment conceived the project of making the study of natural history amiable and accessible to all which until then had only known dry teachings. His vast project aimed to encompass all the productions of nature by classifying and explaining them methodically.The success of the enterprise was immense resounding and lasting."Never had human thought reached such a height nor genius such boldness. One was not accustomed to hearing science speak such beautiful language. Hence Buffon's place was marked from that day at the French Academy.""Buffon's text dedicated to the "Epochs of Nature" describing the formation of continents takes its place among the great pages of French literature."It was the first attempt at amiable and refined popularization of the study of natural history which led to a discovery and an enthusiasm from the cultivated public and a desire for protection of this science by sovereigns and greats. However there are hardly any known copies with the double state of the engravings.This edition was published by Sonnini de Manoncourt his former assistant with the collaboration of several naturalists and entomologists.It is illustrated with 2 portraits 8 maps and 1 136 copper engravings some folded. Nissen announces only 1 100 plates 36 less than in the present copy.Théorie de la Terre 3 vol. 5 p1. 1 portrait and 3 cartes ; Époques de la Nature 1 vol. 3 pl. and one map ; Histoires des minéraux 12 vol. 20 pl. and 4 maps des animaux 1 vol. 7 pl. de l'homme 4 vol. 13 pl. des quadrupèdes 13 vol. 231 pl. des singes 2 vol. 79 pl. des oiseaux 28 vol. 257 pl. des poissons 13 vol. 80 pl. and one portrait des cétacées 1 vol. 5 pl. des mollusques 6 vol. 72 pl. des reptiles 8 vol. 100 pl. des crustacés et des insectes 14 vol. 113 pl. et des plantes 18 vol. 151 pl. tables 3 vol.One of the rare copies containing a second version of each plate finely watercolored at the time. The colors have remained remarkably fresh.FRA Paris de l'Imprimerie de F. Dufart An VIII 1799/1800 - 1808.127 volumes in-8. Veau roulette dentelée dorée encadrant les plats dos lisses ornés. Reliure de l'époque signée de P. Meslant.196 x 121 mm.La grande " Histoire naturelle " de Buffon du XVIIIe siècle ornée de 1 166 planches gravées sur cuivre à pleine page incluant 2 portraits 8 cartes 20 tableaux et 1 136 estampes ici en rarissime double état sur papier fort de Hollande en noir et vis-à-vis en coloris main de l'époque.Quérard. La France littéraire I 558 ; Nissen. Zoologie 682 ; Cohen Livres illustrés du XVIIIe siècle 194.Ce fut l'une des œuvres les plus ambitieuses et les plus complètes de la littérature scientifique. Buffon nommé intendant du Jardin du Roi en août 1730 avait dès ce moment conçu le projet de rendre aimable et accessible à tous l'étude de l'histoire naturelle qui n'avait connu jusqu'alors que de secs enseignements.Son vaste projet entendait embrasser l'ensemble des productions de la nature en les classant et expliquant d'une façon méthodique.Le succès de l'entreprise fut immense éclatant et durable." Jamais la pensée humaine ne s'était élevée à une pareille hauteur ni le génie à une telle hardiesse. On n'était pas accoutumé à entendre la science parler un aussi beau langage. Aussi la place de Buffon fut-elle marquée dès ce jour à l'Académie française "." Le texte de Buffon consacré aux " Époques de la nature " à la description de la formation des continents prend place parmi les grandes pages de la littérature française ".C'était le premier essai de vulgarisation aimable et raffiné de l'étude de l'histoire naturelle qui provoqua une découverte et un engouement du public cultivé et un désir de protection de cette science chez les souverains et les grands. Mais l'on ne connaît guère d'exemplaires avec le double état des gravures.Cette édition fut publiée par Sonnini de Manoncourt son ancien assistant avec la collaboration de plusieurs naturalistes et entomologistes.Elle est illustrée de 2 portraits 8 cartes et 1 136 planches gravées sur cuivre certaines repliées. Nissen n'annonce que 1 100 planches soit 36 de moins que dans le présent exemplaire.Théorie de la Terre 3 vol. 5 p1. 1 portrait et 3 cartes ; Époques de la Nature 1 vol. 3 pl. et une carte ; Histoires des minéraux 12 vol. 20 pl. et 4 cartes des animaux 1 vol. 7 pl. de l'homme 4 vol. 13 pl. des quadrupèdes 13 vol. 231 pl. des singes 2 vol. 79 pl. des oiseaux 28 vol. 257 pl. des poissons 13 vol. 80 pl. et un portrait des cétacées 1 vol. 5 pl. des mollusques 6 vol. 72 pl. des reptiles 8 vol. 100 pl. des crustacés et des insectes 14 vol. 113 pl. et des plantes 18 vol. 151 pl. tables 3 vol.Un des rares exemplaires contenant une seconde épreuve de chaque planche finement aquarellée à l'époque. Les coloris sont restés d'une fraîcheur remarquable. hardcover

LIBRAIRIE CAMILLE SOURGET · France25 000,00 €

Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte deBiblio.com

A superb set of Buffons Histoire naturelle in 80 volumes with 800 contemporary hand-coloured engraved plates.

180212697Paris Crapelet and Deterville 1802-1803. Histoire naturelle de Buffon classée par ordres genres et espèces d'après le systeme de Linné; avec les caractères génériques et la nomenclature Linnéenne. In 12° 135 x 83 mm. / 5.12 x 3.15 inch. Complete set of Buffons celebrated natural history in a finely preserved contemporary edition. 80 volumes Paris Crapelet and Deterville 18021803 small 8vo c. 14 cm. Beautifully bound in uniform bindings and illustrated with approximately 800 engraved plates with fine contemporary hand-colouring. The set comprises: 26 volumes of Histoire naturelle vols. 126; 5 volumes Minéraux 2731; 10 volumes Poissons 3241; 4 volumes Reptiles 4245; 10 volumes Insectes 4655; 2 volumes Crustacés 5657; 5 volumes Coquilles 5862; 3 volumes Vers 6365; and 15 volumes Végétaux 6680. An unusually fresh and visually striking copy of this compact Paris edition of Buffons complete natural history notable for the bright contemporary colouring of the plates and the attractive uniform bindings. Complete sets in such condition with uniformly coloured plates are scarce on the market. References: Brunet I 1378; Nissen ZBI. Paris, Crapelet and Deterville unknown

Antiquariaat De Roo · Pays-Bas23 000,00 €

"BUFFON, (G.L.L.) & LACEPEDE, (B.G.E.).Livre Rare Book

Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière, avec la description du Cabinet du Roy (15 vols.) (+) Supplément à l'Histoire naturelle (6 vols) (+) Histoire naturelle des Oiseaux (9 vols) (+) Quadrupedes Ovipares et des Serpens (2 vols). 32 vols. - [FIRST ""COMPLETE SURVEY OF NATURAL HISTORY IN POPULAR FORM"" - PMM 198]

178960389Paris, l' Imprimerie Royale, Plassan, 1749 - 1789. 4to (262 x 205 mm). Uniformly bound in 32 contemporary full sprinkled calf bindings with five raised bands and richly gilt spines. Leather tome- and title-labels to all volumes. Edges of boards gilt. Light wear to extremities primarily affecting head and foot of spines, corners bumped. Internally with light occassional, marginal brownspotting, but generally fine. With ""J. Collin"" (Danish zoologist Jonas Collin) to top margin of most front free end-papers. An overall nice set comprising the following:Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière (15 vols) - 578 plates and 2 maps.Supplément à l'Histoire naturelle (6 vols) - 141 plates and 2 maps.Histoire naturelle des Oiseaux (9 vols) - 257 plates.Quadrupedes Ovipares et des Serpens (2 vols) - 66 plates. A total of 1042 plates and 4 maps. Wanting the portrait. The complex collation of this work has not been accurately described by bibliographers. Nissen and Heilbrun differ in the listing of number of plates and misname the descriptions of the plates.

Herman H. J. Lynge & Son · Copenhagen, Danemark125 000,00 DKK≈ 16 787,50 €

BUFFON, (GLL) & LACEPEDE, (BGE). G L L B G EBiblio.com

Histoire Naturelle Générale et Particulière avec la description du Cabinet du Roy 15 vols. Supplément à l'Histoire naturelle 6 vols Histoire naturelle des Oiseaux 9 vols Quadrupedes Ovipares et des Serpens 2 vols. 32 vols. - FIRST "COMPLETE SURVEY OF NATURAL HISTORY IN POPULAR FORM" - PMM 198

178960389Paris l' Imprimerie Royale Plassan 1749 - 1789. 4to 262 x 205 mm. Uniformly bound in 32 contemporary full sprinkled calf bindings with five raised bands and richly gilt spines. Leather tome- and title-labels to all volumes. Edges of boards gilt. Light wear to extremities primarily affecting head and foot of spines corners bumped. Internally with light occassional marginal brownspotting but generally fine. With "J. Collin" Danish zoologist Jonas Collin to top margin of most front free end-papers. An overall nice set comprising the following:Histoire Naturelle Générale et Particulière 15 vols - 578 plates and 2 maps.Supplément à l'Histoire naturelle 6 vols - 141 plates and 2 maps.Histoire naturelle des Oiseaux 9 vols - 257 plates.Quadrupedes Ovipares et des Serpens 2 vols - 66 plates. A total of 1042 plates and 4 maps. Wanting the portrait. The complex collation of this work has not been accurately described by bibliographers. Nissen and Heilbrun differ in the listing of number of plates and misname the descriptions of the plates. First edition of this extensive landmark work in natural science. After his death several other volumes were published making the total number of volumes 44. Together with Diderot's Encyclopaedia this work represents the peak of book printing of the French enlightenment. Buffon was the first to sum up an entire natural history based on science instead of theology; It constitutes one of the first attempts to provide a comprehensive account of the natural world aiming at describing the entire known natural world - including plants animals and minerals - in a single work. Buffon based his work on first-hand observations and scientific analysis rather than on second-hand accounts or mythological beliefs making it a seminal work in the development of modern science. "Buffon's "Natural History General and Particular" presented for the first time a complete survey of natural history in a popular form . he was the first to present the universe as one complete whole and to find no phenomenon calling for any but a purely scientific explanation. In 1739 he was appointed Director of the Jardin du Roi now Jardin des Plantes. It would appear that the 'Natural History germinated in the preparation of a catalogue of the royal collection. Buffon then enlarged its scope to Aristotelian or Plinian proportions and finally transformed it into a conspectus of nature of a breadth and depth previously unknown". … he was the first to present the universe as one complete whole and to find no phenomenon calling for any but a purely scientific explanation." PMM. Buffon's work had a significant impact upon the field of natural history and influenced many other scientists including Charles Darwin; In a part of the work "Des Epoqeus de la Nature" Supplement vol. V 1778 present here Buffon attacked several Christian doctrines on natural science. He saw man as a part of the animal world he objected to earth being only 6000 years old and he dismissed a rigid classification system thus paving the way for Darwin's thoughts a century later:"Georges Buffon set forth his general views on species classification in the first volume of his Histoire Naturelle. Buffon objected to the so-called "artificial" classifications of Andrea Cesalpino and Carolus Linnaeus stating that in nature the chain of life has small gradations from one type to another and that the discontinuous categories are all artificially constructed by mankind. Buffon suggested that all organic species may have descended form a small number of primordial types; this is an evolution predominantly from more perfect to less perfect forms." Parkinson Breakthroughs. "Buffon's work is of exceptional importance because of its diversity richness originality and influence. Buffon was among the first to create an autonomous science free of any theological influence. He emphasized the importance of natural history and the great length of geological time. He envisioned the nature of science and understood the roles of paleontology zoological geography and animal psychology. He realised both the necessity of transformism and its difficulties. Although his cosmogony was inadequate and his theory of animal reproduction was weak and although he did not understand the problem of classification he did establish the intellectual framework within which most naturalists up to Darwin worked." DSB From the library of Danish zoologist Jonas Collin 1840-1905 who issued a new edition of Kjærbølling's "The Birds of Scandinavia" in 1875-1877 See Anker 251 - a work most likely inspired by his knowledge from his i.e. the present copy of Buffon's "Histoire Naturelle".The 'Histoire Générale' was widely reprinted and translated. Sometimes only individual sections were produced other times the complete work appeared. PMM 198.Nissen 672.Brunet I 376.Dibner 193.Sparrow p. 23.Anker 6. hardcover

Herman H. J. Lynge & Søn A/S · Danemark125 000,00 DKK≈ 16 787,50 €

BUFFON, George Louis Leclerc de / et al.Livre Rare Book

HISTOIRE NATURELLE, GÉNÉRALE ET PARTICULIÈRE avec la description du Cabinet du roi

174982611749 Paris: De lImprimerie royale, [puis] Hotel de Thou, 1749-1789. Collection de 39 vol. in-4: 20.5 x 26.5 cm. Édition originale de la fameuse Histoire naturelle de Buffon complète en 36 volumes, parue entre 1749 et 1789, auxquels sajoutent 8 grandes cartes dép. rel. en un volume séparé, prévues pour ill. Le Traité de laimant, le dernier ouvrage publié du vivant de Buffon, ainsi que les 2 vol. consacrés aux quadrupèdes ovipares et serpents par Lacépède (1788-1789). Exceptionnel et mythique ouvrage dhistoire naturelle illustré de plus dun millier de figures hors-texte exécutées par Jacques de Sève pour les quadrupèdes et François-Nicolas Martinet pour les oiseaux. La représentation des animaux est toujours faite avec un grand soucis esthétique et anatomique, dans des décors pittoresques oumythologiques. Lune des uvres les plus ambitieuses et les plus complètes de la littérature scientifique, commencée par Buffon (1707-1789), lHistoire naturelle fut composée avec la collaboration de Daubenton, Guéneau de Montbéliard et labbé Bexon, et terminée par Bernard-Germain de Lacépède. Reliures homogènes de lépoque en veau marbré. Dos à cinq nerfs avec pièces de titre et de tomaison en maroquin noir ou brun, caissons ornés aux petits fers. Trois filets en encadrement des plats ornés de lex-libris: «Bibliothèque de V. Perdonnet». Toutes tranches dorées. De Vincent Perdonnet (1768-1850), homme politique et patriote vaudois. Sa bibliothèque, dans sa villa du Parc de Mont-Repos de Lausanne, était particulièrement fameuse. Quelques traces dusage aux reliures, sinon collection en fort bel état de conservation. Les planches sont belles et propres. Lhistoire naturelle se divise en plusieurs séries: lHistoire naturelle, générale et particulière (1749-1767) en 15 vol. qui présente trois vol. dintroduction De la manière détudier lhistoire naturelle, Théorie de la Terre, Histoire générale des animaux et Histoire naturelle de lhomme suivis de 12 vol. consacrés aux quadrupèdes; lHistoire naturelle des Oiseaux (1770-1783) en 9 vol., le Supplément (1774-1789), en 7 vol., et enfin lHistoire naturelle des Minéraux (1783-1788) en 5 vol. Paraîtront après la mort de Buffon, les trois suppléments de Lacépède dont nous avons celui portant sur les ovipares.

Librairie de l'Univers · Lausanne, Suisse15 000,00 CHF≈ 14 335,16 €

Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc deAntiquariat.de

Naturgeschichte. (?Allgemeine Naturgeschichte? in 7 Bänden; ?Naturgeschichte der vierfüßigen Thiere? in 23 Bänden, ?Naturgeschichte der Vögel? in 37 Bänden u. ?Naturgeschichte der Mineralien? in einem Band). Kolorierte Ausgabe. Zus. 68 (in 67) Bände.

182961486Berlin, Joachim Pauli bzw. (nur ?Mineralien?) Frankfurt-Leipzig, auf Kosten der Verlags-Casse, 1771-1829. 8°. Mit zus. 32 kolor. Titelkupfern, 64 gest. kolor. Titelvignetten, einer gefalt. Tabelle, 2 gefalt. kolor. Kupferkarten u. 2161 (davon 2 gefalt. u. 2149 kolor.) Kupfertafeln. Zus. ca. 20.700 S., HLdr.-Bde. d. Zt. a. 5 Bünden m. etw. Rückenverg., je 2 goldgepr. Rückenschildern u. dreiseitigem Farbschnitt.

Versandantiquariat Wolfgang Friebes · AT - Graz14 000,00 €

Edme Louis Daubenton; Comte de Buffon; Francois Nicolas MartinetBiblio.com

Planches Enluminees d’Histoire Naturelle

1765B7181Paris c.1765. One plate with small tear at gutter not affecting plate. Interior generally crisp and clean colours vivid. Binding: Half brown calf over marbled paper boards. Spine with 5 raised bands red morocco label in second compartment green morocco label in fourth compartment gilt rolls on bands. Notes: Edme-Louis Daubenton 12 August 1730 – 12 December 1785 was a French naturalist. Daubenton was the cousin of another French naturalist Louis Jean-Marie Daubenton. Georges-Louis Leclerc the Comte de Buffon engaged Edme-Louis Daubenton to supervise the coloured illustrations for the monumental Histoire Naturelle 1749–89. The Planches Enluminee started to appear in 1765 and finally accounted for 1008 plates all engraved by François-Nicolas Martinet 1731–1800 and all painted by hand. The Parisian publisher Panckoucke published a version without text between 1765 and 1783. The Histoire Naturelle générale et particulière avec la description du Cabinet du Roi is an encyclopaedic collection of 36 large quarto volumes written between 1749 and 1789 by the Comte de Buffon. The books cover what was known of the "natural sciences" at the time including what would now be called material science physics chemistry and technology as well as the natural history of animals. A de luxe edition of Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux 1771–1786 was produced by the Imprimerie royale in 10 folio and quarto volumes with 1008 engraved and hand-coloured plates executed under Buffon's personal supervision by Edme-Louis Daubenton cousin and brother-in-law of Buffon's principal collaborator Louis Jean-Marie Daubenton. The plates were originally issued in 42 cahiers each containing 24 plates and no accompanying text or titles. Size: Folio 460 x 315mm Illustration: A beautifully bound collection of 100 handcoloured plates produced by Daubenton for the Comte de Buffon’s Histoire Naturelle which was issued in multiple parts between 1765 and 1783 and came to encompass over 1000 plates. The numbered plates depict birds from many parts of the world including Africa Canada Mexico France Italy Brazil China and America. The present volume represents an impressive compilation of plates originally issued across different parts the numbering not always chronological. One plate with etched caption crossed and rewritten in contemporary hand. Category: Book Natural History; Book Plate Books Colour; hardcover

Alexandre Antique Prints, Maps & Books · Canada14 000,00 $US≈ 11 845,40 €

Buffon, SonniniBiblio.com

HISTOIRE NATURELLE GENERALE ET PARTICULIERE par Lecrerc de Buffon. 127 volumi. Completo.

1798017909Paris: Dufart VII-XIII 1798-1805. .nouvelle edition accompagnée de notes et dans laquelle les supplémens sont insérés dans le premier texte à la place qui leur convient. L'on y a ajouté l'histoire naturelle des quadrupèdes et des oiseaux découverts depuis la mort de Buffon celle des reptiles des poissons des insectes et des vers; enfin l'histoire des plantes dont se grand naturaliste n'a pas eu le tems de s'occuper. Ouvrage formant un cours complet d'Histoire naturelle redigé par C.S. Sonnini. 127 volumi 125x20 cm in bella legatura coeva in piena pelle marmorizzata cornice dorata ai piatti dorso liscio ornato e dorato con doppio tassello di titolo e tomagione. --Un volume con rilegatura rifatta a imitazione alcune cuffie mancanti o altri segni d'uso e del tempo ai margini e agli angoli. Risguardie marmorizzate testimoni. Set completo di questa famosa edizione con 1113 tavole quasi tutte colorate a mano e carte geografiche più circa 30 schemi di classificazione e tabelle. Qualche brunitura a macchia o fioriture ma bell'insieme di questa monumentale riedizione e aggiornamento dell'opera di Buffon. L'opera è così divisa: Théorie de la terre 3 tomes; Epoques de la Nature 1 tome; Histoire des Minéraux 12 tomes; Des Animaux 1 tome; De l'Homme 4 tomes; Quadrupèdes 13 tomes; des Singes 2 tomes;; des Oiseaux 28 tomes; Crustacés et Insectes 14 tomes; Mollusques 6 tomes; Reptiles 8 tomes; Plantes 18 tomes; Poissons 14 tomes; Tables analytiques 3 tomes. Non tutte le tavole sono numerate e a volte non sono in sequenza ma corrispondono al testo.Oltre al testo "classico" di Buffon sono assai importanti le integrazioni sulla base delle nuove scoperte scientifiche. Rettili e anfibi sono opera del Dudin con 100 tavole; i molluschi sono di Denis de Monfort con 72 tavole; uccelli e pesci sono sviluppati dal Sonnini; gli insetti da Latrelle. In sostanza i migliori studiosi degli anni a cavallo tra 7 e 8cento furono partecipi dell'opera rara da trovare così completa e in belle condizioni esterne. Dufart

Libreria Bacbuc · Italie10 160,00 €

BUFFON, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de - DAUBENTON - MONTBEILLARDLivre Rare Book

L'Histoire Naturelle, générale et particulière, avec la description du Cabinet du Roi (15 volumes). Supplément à l'Histoire naturelle (6/7 volumes). Histoire naturelle des Oiseaux (8/9 volumes) (29 volumes au total).

96654A Paris, de l'Imprimerie Royale, 1770-1782, 29 volumes in-4 sur 31 : Histoire naturelle (15 volumes, ensemble recomposé) illustrée de 578 planches + 1 portrait en frontispice+ 2 cartes+1 tableau dépliant (Chiens) (total 582 planches) - Supplément à l'Histoire naturelle (6 volumes sur 7 de 1774 à 1782, illustré de 144 planches + 1 carte Chaîne de Montagnes +1 carte Régions polaires ( total 146 planches) - Histoire des Oiseaux (tome 1 à 8 sur , de 1770 à 1781), illustrée de 227/231 planches, soit un total 29/31 volumes illustrés de 955 planches, série recomposée avec 2 tomes à la reliure légèrement différente, plein veau fauve (2 tomes en veau marbré dont une reliure aux armes), dos à nerfs portant titres et tomaisons dorés, ornés de caissons à fleurons et motifs dorés, coupes et chasses dorées, gardes marbrées, tranches rouges (1 tome avec tranche marbrée). Des rousseurs et pages brunies, petites galeries et mouillures dans les marges, des frottements épidermures et petits accrocs sur le cuir, des coiffes ébréchées, des coins émoussés, petits défauts de marge, quelques pages tachées, bordures de certaines gravures fendillées et brunies, sinon belle série en bon état.

Librairie Diogène · Lyon, France9 500,00 €

BUFFON, Georges-Louis LeclercBiblio.com

Historia Natural general y particular escrita en francés por. y traducida por D. Joseph Clavijo y Faxardo. -colección completa-

17917169Madrid: viuda de JoaquÃn Ibarra 1791. Second edition. Hardcover Â— Tapa dura. 204x135mm. 8x5Â¼". Madrid viuda de Ibarra 1791-1805. En 4º menor 204 x 135mm. 21 volÃºmenes. 487 lÃ¡minas coloreadas a mano de Ã©poca. EncuadernaciÃ³n uniforme en piel de Ã©poca lomera con adornos dorados y dos tejuelos en marroquÃ©n. Segunda ediciÃ³n impresa sobre buen papel de hilo ilustrada con 487 lÃ¡minas grabadas y coloreadas a mano en la Ã©poca. Se trata de una enciclopedia incluye todo el saber de la Ã©poca concerniente a las ciencias naturales. La Historia Natural publicada en los albores de la IlustraciÃ³n tuvo una profunda influencia en el pensamiento cientÃfico de la Ã©poca y en el de las subsecuentes generaciones sobre todo en las ideas de otros grandes naturalistas como Charles Darwin o Jean-Baptiste Lamarck. viuda de Joaquín Ibarra hardcover

Librería José Porrúa Turanzas · Espagne9 000,00 €

BUFFON (Georges Louis Leclerc de)Livre Rare Book

Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière, avec la description du Cabinet du Roi. Quadrupèdes et Oiseaux.

174922898P., Imprimerie Royale, 1749-1803 43 volumes in-4 veau marbré, dos lisses ornés à la grotesque de fers dorés, tranches rouges. (Quelques accidents aux coiffes, des tomaisons plus claires à cinq volumes,, des mouillures au tome X, dans le tome VI des Suppléments, les 49 planches concernent les quadrupèdes mais la numérotation est aléatoire).

Librairie Jeanne Laffitte · Marseille, France8 000,00 €

BUFFON, Georges Louis Lecrec (comte de) / SEVE, Jacques de (ill.)Livre Rare Book

HISTOIRE NATURELLE Générale et Particulière - 71 volumes in-12

177064661770 Paris, Imp. Royale, Imp. Bâtiments du roi, Hôtel de Thou, Plassan, 1770-1804. Complet en 71 vol. in-12 reliés: 10.5 x 17 cm. Ensemble illustré de 871 planches gravées principalement d'après De Sève, la plupart à double avec ÉPREUVES AVANT LA LETTRE. 5e édition du texte, 1ère édition in-12. Ensemble complet sans le sup. anatomique (14 vol.) par Daubenton. Luxueuses reliures de l'époque en plein cuir de Russie Rouge. Dos lisse avec auteur, titre, tomaison et filets en doré. Doubles encadrements des plats. Filets sur les coupes. Roulettes intérieures. Tranches dorées. Très bel exemplaire

Librairie de l'Univers · Lausanne, Suisse8 000,00 CHF≈ 7 645,42 €

PICASSO, Pablo - BUFFON (Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de)Livre Rare Book

40 DESSINS DE PICASSO EN MARGE DU BUFFON. Exemplaire de tête avec la gravure signée "le pigeonneau".

19573181Henri Jonquières, Paris 1957. Un volume in-folio (387 x 292 mm) en feuilles sous couverture imprimée rempliée, chemise-étui de l'éditeur. Fac-similé de l'exemplaire enluminé et offert par Picasso à Dora Maar (édition Fabiani 1942) reproduisant l'ensemble des dessins originaux. Tirage à 2226 exemplaires : 226 sur vélin d'Arches comprenant une gravure à la gouge signée + 2000 sur vélin du Marais. Celui-ci exemplaire de luxe (n° 140) comportant LA LINOGRAVURE ORIGINALE gravée en 1939 et signée au crayon de couleur (vert) par PICASSO. Notre épreuve, imprimée sur une feuille de vélin d'Arches (37,5 x 28,2 cm), porte la justification 140/226 au crayon noir et la signature au crayon vert. La signature au crayon de couleur est très recherchée des amateurs. Catalogues raisonnés : Bloch 326 ; Baer 1028 ; Cramer Les Livres illustrés 84 ; MoMA 1017.1964.1-2.

LIBRAIRIE PATRICE JEUDY · Paris, France7 500,00 €

[BUFFON, Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de, and Louis JM DAUBENTON]. J MBiblio.com

Allgemeine Historie der Natur nach allen ihren besondern Theilen abgehandelt; nebst einer Beschreibung der Naturalienkammer Sr. Majestät des Königes von Frankreich. Mit einer Vorrede Herrn Doctor Albrecht von Haller.

17506103Hamburg and Leipzig: Georg Christian Grund and Adam Heinrich Holle 1750. Contemporary vellum not strictly matching. 4to. With engraved vignette on 16 title-pages engraved headpiece to the dedication engraved headpieces to each part 2 engraved maps folding engraved genealogical table 1 folding letterpress table and 575 engraved plates by J.C.G. Fritzsch J. Haas J.C. Sysang etc. 8 of 11 volumes divided into two parts each. Very rare first edition of the German translation of Buffon's famous Histoire naturelle. Buffon's work presents ''for the first time a complete survey of natural history in popular form'' PMM. The first volume contains Buffon's theoretical essays including his essay on the earth where "for the first time he outlines a satisfactory account of the history of our globe and of its development as a fitting home for living things. In his view the earth had been originally part of the sun which was broken off by the impact of a comet. It gradually condensed from its gaseous state and the forces shaping its continents and mountains are still active'' PMM. This view of the universe not in a steady state but evolving was a revolutionary idea at the time paving the way for Darwin in the following century. In his treatise on humans volume II.1 Buffon ''studied the human species by the same methods that he applied to animal species including the psychological moral and intellectual life of man. From his exhaustive research for the Histoire naturelle des quadrupèdes Buffon came to the conclusion that it was necessary to reintroduce the notion of family. Breaking with the spirit of his time Buffon attempted to separate science from metaphysical and religious ideas. As a disciple of Locke he denied idealistic metaphysics stating that mental abstractions can never become principles of either existence or real knowledge; these can come only as the results of sensation'' DSB. Volumes II-VIII deal with quadrupeds. The German edition was begun in 1750 but discontinued after the three volumes on ornithology in 1782 not included here while the original French which had started in 1749 continued till 1804 and comprised eventually 44 volumes.The first 8 volumes of the German Buffon with an owner's inscription on title-page of the first volume dated 1750. Only some occasional spot but otherwise in very good condition.l Nissen ZBI 709; cf. Anker 79 vols. IX-XI; DSB II pp. 576-582; PMM 198; Wood p. 267. Georg Christian Grund and Adam Heinrich Holle, hardcover

Antiquariaat FORUM BV · Pays-Bas6 950,00 €

BUFFONLivre Rare Book

Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière. Les Oiseaux. Les Oiseaux de Buffon, complets en 18 volumes, illustrés de 114 planches d’oiseaux imprimés en 1785-1787, reliés en élégant cartonnage de l’époque.

LCS-1864075Collection complète des 18 volumes d’oiseaux parus dans cette édition de 1785-1787 ornée de 114 planches d’oiseaux. Aux Deux-Ponts, chez Sanson & Compagnie, 1785-1787. 18 volumes in-12. I/ xxxiv pp., (1) f., 256 pp., (1) f., 12 planches hors texte dont 2 en couleurs; II/ 264 pp., 11 planches hors texte; III/ 305 pp., 6 planches hors texte dont 1 en couleurs; IV/ 299 pp., 8 planches hors texte; V/ 372 pp., 7 planches hors texte; VI/ 199 pp., 153 pp.de table, 4 planches hors texte; VII/ 336 pp. (relié à l’époque sans la p. 325), 3 planches hors texte; VIII/ 339 pp., li pp. de table, 7 pp. de table, 5 planches hors texte; IX/ 377 pp., 5 pp. de table, 6 planches hors texte; X/ 246 pp., L pp. de table, 4 pp. de table, 3 planches; XI/ 400 pp., 8 pp. de table, 6 planches; XII/ 391 pp., 6 pp. de table, 4 planches hors texte; XIII/ 370 pp., 6 pp. de table, 6 planches hors texte; XIV/ 299 pp., xviii pp., 6 pp. de table, 5 planches; XV/ 349 pp., 6 pp. de table, 7 planches hors texte; XVI/ 258 pp., 3 pp. de table, 7 planches; XVII/ 385 pp., (3) pp. de table, 10 planches; XVIII/ 110 pp., cxlix pp. de table, (3) pp., 4 planches hors texte. Soit 114 planches au total. Plein cartonnage marbré de l’époque. 165 x 98 mm.

Librairie Camille Sourget · Paris, France6 500,00 €

Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de BUFFONBiblio.com

Oeuvres complètes

182581174Paris: A. Eymery 1825. Fine. A. Eymery Paris 1825 -1828 13.50 x 21 cm longueur totale de la série 103 cm 26 volumes reliés Complete edition in 25 volumes illustrated with 245 plates including the author's portrait by Deveria as frontispiece 216 hand-colored plates some with gold highlights including 91 for mammals 126 for birds 13 in black and 4 folding geographical maps. Rare copy complete with the supplementary volume published in 1828 with 12 colored plates. Full glazed calf binding. Spine with raised bands decorated with 3 cold-stamped Restoration tools inlaid with gold dots roulettes at head and tail on the bands and forming compartments. 2 title-labels in blonde calf. Large cold-stamped medallion on covers and cold-stamped frame border. Spine showing traces of discoloration small lacks or minute fragment losses to 8 headcaps volumes 9 11 23 1 5 24. with volume 26 having a tear to the joint at the upper headcap same at tail. Paper relatively fresh with some scattered foxing. Most plates are in perfect fresh condition some browned with some foxing. In volumes 3 4 5 and 10 some leaves browned and browning. One tear in vol.11 p. 63 and browned leaves. Spine with traces of discoloration. Some scattered foxing. Bookplate of Comte Chevreau d'Enraigues. Most of the colored plates are the work of Gabriel Prêtre painter of the natural history museum and Empress Joséphine's menagerie. These complete works are expanded with a general view of the progress of several branches of natural sciences arranged by Comte de Lacépède augmented with a volume containing a summary of nature's marvels discovered from Buffon to our day. A. Eymery hardcover

Rare Books Le Feu Follet - Edition-Originale.com · France6 325,00 €

BUFFON, Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte deBiblio.com

Oeuvres complètes de Buffon suivies de ses continuateurs Daubenton Lacépède Cuvier Duméril Poiret Lesson et Geoffroy-St-Hilaire.

182818887Brussels 1828. Large 8vo 24 x 16 cm. Th. Lejeune back of half-titles: printed by P.-M. de Vroom Contemporary gold-tooled half red half morocco marbled paper sides marbled edges marbled endpapers. With lithographed frontispiece portrait of the author lithographed portrait of Daubenton 2 lithographed emblematic frontispieces 2 lithographed double-page maps of the Old and the New World 6 numbered lithographed plates of teeth 16 numbered lithographed plates of scientific instruments and apparatus and 6 numbered lithographed plates of seeds in the first 4 introductory volumes lithographed frontispieces of a naked man woman and child and 26 lithographed plates of human heads and species of which 10 are nicely coloured by hand in volume 5 on the natural history of man illustrations of mammals and mammalian anatomy on 469 lithographed plates of which 226 coloured by hand in volumes 6 to 10 and illustrations of birds on 210 lithographed plates all beautifully coloured by hand and several heightened with gold in volumes 11 to 14. 14 volumes. Each volume ca. 500 pp. Fine complete set of a special edition of the works of George-Louis Leclerc Comte de Buffon 1707-1788 the most important natural historian of his day with great influence on various scientific fields. The present work was edited by professor Lamouroux correspondant of the Institut de France and enlarged with new information by Buffon's successors in the field of natural history such as Lacépède Cuvier Poiret etc. added at the end of the relevant chapters. The work starts with two prefaces by the publishers at Brussels and Paris and two eulogies one on Buffon by Condorcet and the other on Daubenton by Baron Cuvier. The illustrations were made under supervision of M. Meunier draughtsman of the Cabinet d'Histoire Naturelle and for the first time lithographed which according to the Paris publisher allowed a much more truthful representation of live subjects. The lithography was done by the Brussels publisher Th. Lejeune and printed on special paper.The work is divided into four parts: Théorie de la Terre volumes 1-4 with 2 portraits 2 maps and 30 plates; Histoire naturelle de l'homme volume 5 with 27 plates 10 coloured by hand; Mammifères volumes 6-10 with 469 plates numbered 1 - 467 including plate 167bis and 167ter including 226 coloured by hand; Oiseaux vols. 11-14 with 210 plates numbered 1 - 136 including numerous plates numbered "bis" and "ter" all coloured by hand. So there are 738 portraits maps and plates in total and almost two/thirds of the plates depicting mammals and birds are in beautiful hand-colouring with several of the plates of birds highlighted with gold as well. Extra added: Manuscript letter by Dr. J.F.M. Sterck celebrated Dutch philologist with advice on the sale of the present set of Buffon. The owner is adviced to send it for auction not to Mensing of the firm Frederik Muller who recently died but to Menno Herzberger at Amsterdam who will be happy to come and collect the work by car. Signed and dated at Aerdenhout November 21 1936. With some occasional foxing otherwise in very good condition.l Cat. Natura Artis Magistra 1171; Nissen ZBI 689; Wood p. 268. unknown

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Comte de Buffon Lettre signée à Thouin Montbard naturaliste

1772AMO-3535Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon (1707-1788) 1 page feuillet 20,5 x 16 cm Bon état. Légères traces de plis. Deux trous d’épingle en dehors du texte. Voir photos. Lettre signée à son ami le botaniste André Thouin (1747-1824) alors âgé de 25 ans. Goerges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon est âgé de 65 ans au moment de la rédaction de ce courrier. Son immense ouvrage intitulé "L'Histoire naturelle" est encore en cours de publication (cette somme unique en son genre fut publiée entre 1749 et sa mort - avec de nombreux suppléments parus ensuite par Lacépède – en 1772 les Oiseaux sont en cours de publication depuis 1770. La publication des Oiseaux ne s’achèvera qu’en 1783). Dans le présent courrier Buffon écrit à son jeune ami et collaborateur resté à Paris. Buffon écrit depuis son cabinet de travail de Montbard. C’est précisément en 1772, peu de temps après la rédaction de ce courrier que seront achevées les forges situées près du village de Buffon. Buffon écrit à Thouin en ces termes : [Transcription de la lettre / orthographe respectée :] "Lucas a dû vous remettre, mon cher Thouin, les deux certificats dont vous avez besoin et c'est à lui à qui je vous prie de remettre la partie qui me revient lorsque vous aurez touchée. Je vous envoye ci joint un second mandat pour prendre vingt voyes de bois chez le Sr Vaslin ; s'il fait aussi froid à Paris qu'ici on doit commencer à en brûler beaucoup. Ma santé souffre de cette rigueur de froid qui dure ici depuis quatre à cinq jours, le termomètre étoit cette nuit à 6 degrés 1/2 au dessous de la glace. Je vous remercie, mon cher Thouin, de vos bons souhaits au renouvellement de cette année. Je vous prie de faire mes amitiés à votre bonne mère et à votre famille. à Montbard ce 6 janvier 1772 [signé] Buffon." Les relations entre André Thouin (1747-1824) et Buffon sont importantes. C'est Buffon, alors intendant du jardin du roi depuis 1739, qui offre à André Thouin la place de son pèreJean- André Thouin (jardinier en chef du jardin du roi) décédé en 1764. André Thouin n'a alors que 17 ans. Les deux hommes collaboreront étroitement jusqu’à la mort de Buffon en 1788. Buffon gère Paris le plus souvent depuis son cabinet de Montbard tandis que Thouin se révèle être un parfait collaborateur au plus près des nombreux travaux à réaliser et à gérer le Jardin du Roi. Thouin aura une importante carrière et sera toujours très apprécié de Buffon. De nombreuses lettres de Buffon à Thouin ont été publiées dans la Correspondance Générale de Buffon ainsi que dans les volumes de correspondance inédite publiés ultérieurement. La lettre que nous proposons ici ne se trouve pas dans ces volumes de correspondance. Elle est inédite. Par ailleurs nous avons constaté que les échanges publiés entre Buffon et Thouin datent du début des années 1780 et années suivantes. Un tel courrier entre les deux hommes à la date de janvier 1772 montre la teneur des échanges durant les premières années après la nomination de Thouin jeune au Jardin du Roi depuis 1764. Très beau document signé par le grand naturaliste.

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182581174A. Eymery | Paris 1825 -1828 | 13.50 x 21 cm, longueur totale de la série 103 cm | 26 volumes reliés

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Histoire naturelle des oiseaux Natural History of Birds

177089949Paris: Imprimerie royale 1770. Fine. Mrs Necker: ""Animals seemed to be the most distant from us and Buffon's art lay in constantly bringing them closer"" our own translation Imprimerie royale Paris 1770-1783 20 x 26.4 cm relié First edition from the Imprimerie Royale complete in nine quarto volumes with all 262 black-and-white engraved plates. Contemporary full mottled calf spines with raised bands decorated with guilloche tooling and gilt ornaments in the compartments red morocco lettering-pieces and numbering-pieces triple gilt fillet border on boards double gilt fillet on board edges marbled endpapers and pastedowns marbled edges. Minor variations in the tooling on volume 3. In this set some headcaps missing 6 cm joints split at foot of volume 1 6.5 cm and 6 cm at foot of volume 2 3.5 cm at head of volume 3 corners bumped scratches and minor restoration to boards including a more significant repair on volume 7 measuring 11 cm browning in left margin of lower board of volume 4. In this copy: some worming several instances of dampstaining throughout the set more pronounced in volumes 1 3 and 8 some tears restored on the title page and on pp. ix and xxiii of volume 1 also restored on p. 496 of volume 2 on pp. 259 and 260 of volume 3 on pp. 481 and 482 of volume 4 and on pp. 173 to 176 of volume 5. Copy with some marginal annotations: in volume 2 a manuscript footnote added in ink on p. 541 ""Voyez les Planches enluminures n°491"" erroneous manuscript dates in ink in volumes 2 and 8 the number ""18"" annotated in ink in the upper right corner of the rear endpaper of volume 9. Copy richly illustrated with drawings by Jacques de Sève engraved by Robert de Launay Lucas Michel Madeleine-Thérèse Rousselet C. Baron Hubert Catherine Haussard Carl Gottlieb Guttenberg Jean-Guillaume Blanchon Menil Dufour Louis Claude Legrand Claude Mathieu Fessard Elisabeth Haussard François Hubert A.-B. Duhamel Mlle Mansard C. Baquoy Heinrich Guttenberg Laurent Guyot Benazeth Schmitz Marie-Anne Rousselet M. R. veuve Tardieu Louis-Gabriel Monnier Pierre-Étienne Moitte Jean-Louis de Lignon Levillain N. du Four Thomas Chambars Nicolas Thomas Luigi Valperga and George Louis Biosse. Accompanied by two additional plates heightened in color numbered XX and XXII from a volume 7 of the Histoire naturelle des oiseaux. The illustrator Jacques de Sève's main work was unquestionably the Histoire naturelle générale et particulière for which he executed nearly 2000 drawings. Unlike the illustrations he produced for other sections of Buffon's monumental work made primarily from stuffed specimens his work on birds was essentially executed from living models. To accomplish this vast project Jacques de Sève drew inspiration from the works of the king's ""Peintre ordinaire"" Jean-Baptiste Oudry. This judicious decision won him the favor of the queen a great admirer of the master of animal painting. By incorporating small Boucher-style putti in the introductory vignettes of certain volumes of the Histoire naturelle des oiseaux Sève also gained the good graces of the king's mistress. These illustrations at once decorative and scholarly which appear in the present first edition were not retained in the duodecimo edition. A superb complete copy of Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon's Histoire naturelle des oiseaux by the French Pliny. As Ferdinand Hoefer wrote this work maintains the same ""magnificence of style"" as the other publications in the Histoire naturelle générale et particulière. Imprimerie royale hardcover

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