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203317Edinburgh: W. Darling circa 1800. 12mo wrappers Good to very good. Unpaginated - 8 pages printed one side each with a hand-colored illustration of a bird heron golden eagle domestic cock eagle owl bittern pheasant crane accompanied by a sentence or 2 of text. No date - ca early 19th century. Yellow paper wraps later sewn; rear cover reads "The Good Child's Pretty Museum of Birds". Covers soiled creased chipped one corner lower rt ft missing. Pages edge worn not critically affecting text except one closed tear across the Crane. Aged but most characterful and appealing. W. Darling Paperback
9a528Müller Stuttgart 1847. XII VI 354 508 382 Seiten mit zusammen 70 davon 36 colorierten Stahlstich-Tafeln Halbleder der Zeit etwas berieben und bestoßen/2 Kapitale eingerissen/etwas stockfleckig/Name auf Vorsatz. unknown
1819102626Paris: Impr. de Aug. Delalain. 1819. Later binding in half-leather with leather spine title label eleven engraved plates of animals pp 16 174 ii Publisher's signature reverse of title page New endpapers. Previous owner's inscription title page. Ocasional light foxing some marking to the top coner of last few pages. Very good condition in custom-made slipcase. Extracts from the work of Georges-Louis Leclerc Comte de Buffon's famous work 'Histoire naturelle' which he started to publish in 1749. 2nd Edition. Half leather. Impr. de Aug. Delalain hardcover
1833432007New-York: Published by R. Miller. Sold by Collins & Hannay New-York; Carter Hendee & Co. Boston; Grigg & Elliott Philadelphia; and P.N. Wood & Co. Baltimore 1833. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition adapted and edited by John Wright. Volume 1 only of 2. 12mo. pp. i-iii iv 5 6-290. Illustrated with a tiger embossed in gold at the center of the letterpress title page; a Baxter color plate: "Polar Sky"; and 31 engraved plates of quadrupeds numbered 18-91: ranging from the Horse fig. 18 to the Alpine Marmot fig. 91. Bound in contemporary red pebbled-grained half morocco and cloth over boards gold tooling on both boards spine divided into five panels with decorative devices stamped in blind and title lettered in gold plain endpapers edges sprinkled red. Rubbing and a few small abrasions to the edges of the boards about near fine with some toning and light scattered foxing. A handsome copy of this classic compendium of natural history featuring a remarkable large lion printed in gold on the title page a beautiful Baxter plate "printed in oil colours" and fine copper plate engravings of quadrupeds. From the collection of Kenneth G. Leach with his typed description laid in. Checklist American Imprints 18005. Published by R. Miller. Sold by Collins & Hannay, New-York; Carter, Hendee & Co., Boston; Grigg & Elliott, Philadelphia; and P.N hardcover
181729896Paris: Libraire Rue Hautefeville. Good with no dust jacket. 1817. Hardcover. French Language; B/ W engravings; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; iii 164 2; 263 3 pages; La volie Re de la jeunesse ou Cours complet d'e Tude sur l'histoire naturelle des oiseaux . Suivi d'un traite Sur l'art de les empailler. Tall 12mo contemp. Gilt-paneled speckled calf spines richly gilt morocco spine labels; worn & desiccated. With 64 folding engraved plates of birds as called for in G/VG condition. Occasional minor dampstaining. French language text. Complete. Contents good. French Language text. WorldCat locates only 1 copy. . Libraire Rue Hautefeville hardcover
1831ST20481-04London: Thomas Tegg; J. Cumming Dublin; and R. Griffin and Co. Glasgow 1831. 170 x 100 mm. 6 3/4 x 4". Four volumes. Edited by John Wright. <br/> Contemporary black morocco covers with an elaborate frame in gilt and blind raised bands spine compartments gilt with foliate volutes turn-ins with a narrow gilt roll marbled endpapers all edges gilt rear hinge of fourth volume very neatly repaired. The first volume WITH AN EXCELLENT FORE-EDGE PAINTING DEPICTING ROTTERDAM FROM THE WATER. The first volume WITH AN EXCELLENT FORE-EDGE PAINTING DEPICTING ROTTERDAM FROM THE WATER. All volumes with numerous wood-engravings in the text. Corners and spine somewhat worn joints a little rubbed hinges of first volume open but nothing loose; pastedowns with shadow of bookplate removal but internally fresh clean and bright with only trivial defects.<br/> <br/> This set of an English adaptation of one of the most widely read works of the Enlightenment features a pleasing fore-edge painting full of charming detail. With his enormously influential "Histoire Naturelle" Buffon 1707-88 became the first person to present the natural world as one unified whole entirely explicable in scientific terms and in a popular form. Modern evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr called Buffon "the father of all thought in natural history in the second half of the 18th century" and declared that the "Natural History" was read by "every educated person in Europe." Our editor John Wright has augmented Buffon's work with the works of other naturalists including Culver Lacepede and "a British botanist of acknowledged note" among others. The text is supplemented by numerous wood engravings with perhaps livelier and more attractive depictions than might be expected from a small format abridged edition like this one. The main attraction here the fore-edge painting has been done with not inconsiderable skill and charm. In it two vessels cruise the glassy waters of Rotterdam the city's iconic canal houses and the gothic church of St. Lawrence rising in the background. The scene mixes tranquility and commerce in a tableau rendered with a great deal of care and delicacy in its minute details. Thomas Tegg; J. Cumming, Dublin; and R. Griffin and Co., Glasgow unknown
1816C217705London: Sherwood Neely and Jones 1816. Hardcover Hardcover. Very Good. Vol. 5 only. Small octavo. vii 386 2pp. 6 plates. Contemporary half leather over cloth boards. Slight rubbing and wear to covers lacks backstrip otherwise very good with bright solid contents. Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, hardcover
22752Paris ThÂŽodore LefÂvre s.d. circa 1880. Un fort vol. au format pt in-4 248 x 157 mm de 1 f. bl. 2 ff. 1 frontispice n.fol. viii - 436 pp. et 1 f. Reliure de l'ÂŽpoque de demi-chagrin maroquinÂŽ cerise filets gras et maigres ˆ froid encadrant les plats dos ˆ nerfs ornÂŽ de filets gras ˆ froid caissons d'encadrement gras ˆ froid doubles caissons et doubles caissons stylisÂŽs dorÂŽs filets et filets en pointillÂŽs dorÂŽs titre dorÂŽ tranches dorÂŽes. Exemplaire - sous agrÂŽable reliure du temps - agrÂŽmentÂŽ de planches sous serpente hors-texte ainsi que de nombreuses figures. ''Nous avons ici voulu complÂŽter Buffon. Il avait donnÂŽ l'histoire des mammifÂres et des oiseaux nous avons ajoutÂŽ celle des poissons et des insectes.'' Angles ÂŽlimÂŽs. TrÂs lÂŽgÂres marques d'usage affectant par ailleurs la reliure. Quelques rares feuillets pourvus de rousseurs. Du reste trÂs belle condition. b42961 unknown
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
1799F8MF8IL5AXUJDordrecht 1799. 4to. A. Blussé and son 19th-century uniform half calf sewn on 4 recessed cords shell marbled sides gold-tooled spines each with a red and a black morocco label. Each volume with the same woodcut vase of flowers 2 engraved headpieces 63 engraved plates some tables in text. 2 volumes. 10 276 2; 14 "280" = 284 pp. The reptile and amphibian section of Buffon's monumental work on the general and particular natural history. Many species frogs snakes lizards salamanders turtles etc. are depicted in their natural habitat. The work is here in the new edition published at Amsterdam and Dordrecht the only quarto edition to rival the original French Imprimerie Royale edition. The last 2 leaves in vol. 1 give a list of the plates for both volumes.Georges Louis Leclerc 1707-1788 -- in 1717 his father became Comte de Buffon and Louis XV later made Georges Comte de Buffon -- was an inconspicuous student who only showed a special talent for mathematics. Initially he combined a career in finance with one in science translating important works by Hales and Newton into French. In 1739 Buffon became director of the Jardin du Roi later the Jardin des Plantes and the Histoire naturelle may have originated as a description of the royal collection. It appeared from 1749 to 1804 and eventually comprised 44 volumes. Buffon was assisted among others by the anatomist Louis Daubenton and the final volumes were completed after his death under the direction of Comte de Lacépède.From the Stedelijk Gymnasium Bibliotheek with its stamp on title-pages and a few flyleaves. The present series on reptiles and amphibians had been followed rather than preceded by the series on minerals so that the bindings are numbered 25 and 26. Bindings show some wear and abrasions.l Landwehr Coloured plates 45; Nissen ZBI 678; Schuh's Biobliography of mineralogy online ed. Buffon no. 4. unknown
1789013539Paris: De l'Imprimerie Royale 1789. Original mottled calf leather bindign with recent matching calf leather spine. Heavy wear to the old boards. The first 35 plates are of Apes & Monkeys and includes an image of the Oranutang . All 82 copper engraved images are present except plate #81 the giraffe. Slight moisture stain at the bottom margin near the gutter. Overall in GOOD condition. Photos available upon request. Georges-Louis Leclerc Comte de Buffon September 7 1707 -- April 16 1788 was a French naturalist mathematician biologist cosmologist and author. Buffon's views influenced the next two generations of naturalists including Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Charles Darwin. Darwin himself in his foreword to the 6th edition of the Origin of Species credited Aristotle with foreshadowing the concept of natural selection and stated that "the first author who in modern times has treated it in a scientific spirit was Buffon". Buffon is best remembered for his great work Histoire naturelle générale et particulière 1749-1788: in 36 volumes 8 additional volumes published after his death by Lacépède. It included everything known about the natural world up until that date. In it Buffon considered the similarities between humans and apes and the possibility of a common ancestry. Buffon debated James Burnett Lord Monboddo on the question of ancestry of the primates to man Monboddo insisting on the closeness of relationship of man and apes. Buffon's work is considered to have greatly influenced modern ecology. His Histoire was translated into many different languages making him the most widely read scientific author of the day. First Edition. Full Calf Leather. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardcover. De l'Imprimerie Royale Hardcover
1766013538Paris: De l'Imprimerie Royale 1766. All 41 copper engraved plates of Apes & Monkeys are present. Georges-Louis Leclerc Comte de Buffon September 7 1707 -- April 16 1788 was a French naturalist mathematician biologist cosmologist and author. Buffon's views influenced the next two generations of naturalists including Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Charles Darwin. Darwin himself in his foreword to the 6th edition of the Origin of Species credited Aristotle with foreshadowing the concept of natural selection and stated that "the first author who in modern times has treated it in a scientific spirit was Buffon". Buffon is best remembered for his great work Histoire naturelle générale et particulière 1749-1788: in 36 volumes 8 additional volumes published after his death by Lacépède. It included everything known about the natural world up until that date. In it Buffon considered the similarities between humans and apes and the possibility of a common ancestry. Buffon debated James Burnett Lord Monboddo on the question of ancestry of the primates to man Monboddo insisting on the closeness of relationship of man and apes. Buffon's work is considered to have greatly influenced modern ecology. His Histoire was translated into many different languages making him the most widely read scientific author of the day. First Edition. Full Calf Leather. Poor. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardcover. De l'Imprimerie Royale Hardcover
17747132Leipzig: Hermann Heinrich Holle 1774. Hardcover. Very good. Quarto 2 parts in one volume. A very good copy bound in 19th century 3/4 sheep and blue mottled paper over boards. First signature partly loosened but still attached. Contents clean. General wear to extremities; a crisp copy. Contains a few large engravings of various simians and some other lithographs. Text in German; single volume only. Hermann Heinrich Holle hardcover
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S24C-03506Carilian-Goeury et Vor Dalmont. Used - Acceptable. Acceptable condition. 2 Volume Set. French edition. Reading copy only. Volume 1 missing title page. Dampstained. Bookplates on front pastedowns. Hinges of Volume 2 cracked. Italy Irrigation Canals Books in French Carilian-Goeury et Vor Dalmont unknown
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1804871F23Paris: Chez Plassan 1804 . Leather. Very Good. 7" by 4.5". Not Stated. An early edition of La Cepede's richly illustrated and very scarce study of cetaceans. In the original French.Illustrated with sixteen engraved plates across the two volumes. Collated complete.Published in the same year as the single volume first edition. Very scarce in all early editions.With each volume retaining the original half title.A richly illustrated study of cetaceans by French naturalist and freemason Count de Lacepede who was chosen by naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc Comte de Buffo to be his successor and continue his series 'Histoire Naturelle'. In full calf bindings with gilt detailing to spines. Rubbing to back strip heads and tails board perimeters and joints. Minor loss of leather to rear board of volume I. Library stamps to title pages with small library markings to versos of front free endpapers. Internally firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Chez Plassan hardcover
1801V73223Paris: Le Prieur 1st edition 1801 AN IX. Hardcover. Very Good. Engraved frontispiece by Binet/Bovinet 31 other plates 9 6 11 5 each with several figures in 4 volumes. Four Volumes 12mo marbled roan with some gilt worn to edges hinges and spine leather cracked but held by cords 410pp 360pp 373pp 383pp. Vol I. Cosmographie et quadrupedes; II. Quadrupedes et oiseaux; III. Oiseaux et poissons; IV. Poissons reptiles coquillages crustacees etc. Contents clean and tight. Delightful engraved figures of animals fishes etc by an unknown artist. Scarce in this 1st edition no copy in Bibliotheque Nationale which has 2nd edition only not in Gumuchian who lists several similar Buffon abridgements but all later. Le Prieur 1st edition hardcover
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