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1792013725London: Published for C.& G. Kearsley 1792. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good. Abridged two volume edition and first thus. Contemporary tree calf. marbleized endpapers. Labels on spine partially missing and spines heavily worn. xxxviii 1 353 with plates I - XL. with errata leaf and directions to binder for both volumes; 494 with plates XLI - CVIL. Joints partially revealed but holding. Firm binding. All plates extant. Some episodic spotting. Plates quite nice. Published for C.& G. Kearsley hardcover
1750654356Hamburg & Leipzig.: Georg Christian Grund & Adam Heinrich Holle. 1750. Orig.Halbleder. Mit 8 Tafeln 2 Faltkarten Kupferstichen im Text & Vignetten. Deckel lose Ecken und Kanten berieben. Vorsatz gebräunt. Rücken aufgeplatzt. Starke Gebrauchsspuren. xxvii318 SeitenRegister 288 SeitenRegister. Georg Christian Grund & Adam Heinrich Holle. unknown
17656479Paris: Hôtel de Thou 1765. First Edition — Primera edición. Hardcover — Tapa dura. 247x186mm. 9¾x7¼". Paris Hôtel de Thou n.d. 1765. En 4º 247 x 186mm. 2 volúmenes. -I: 7 h. 182 láminas. -II: 1 h. 160 láminas. En total 362 láminas grabadas y coloreadas a mano en la época con la representación de animales. Encuadernación de la épocas en piel lomera cuajada de adornos dorados. Primera edición de una de las obras más raras y apreciadas de Buffon dedicada a los animales cuadrúpedos desconocida a Nissen y otra bibliografÃa especializada. Muy rara publicación separada de los grabados creados para los <em>Animaux quadrupèdes</em> de Buffon y organizados según el sistema linneano. Todas las 362 placas han sido delicadamente coloreadas a mano en el momento de la publicación. La publicación de la monumental <em>Histoire Naturelle</em> de Buffon iniciada en 1749 y continuada por Lacépède abarcó un lapso de más de 50 años. Su éxito fue inmediato y Buffon menciona en su correspondencia que los primeros 3 volúmenes se agotaron después de solo 6 semanas. Al año siguiente vio la luz una edición 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 Sève es el artista que ha realizado la práctica totalidad de las imágenes de esta <em>Histoire naturelle</em>. La mayorÃa de los dibujos originales están dispersos hoy; en 1791 se vendió una colección de 152 dibujos originales que habÃan pertenecido a la colección del conde Mirabeau. La calidad de las ilustraciones contribuyó enormemente al éxito universal y la popularidad de la obra prueba de lo cual esta suite publicada por separado. Los cuadrúpedos están aquà clasificados por orden y género en el sistema animal de Linné. Esta colección es de gran rareza y no se menciona en ninguna bibliografÃa especializada. Para Francia el Catalogue Collectif de France indica dos copias institucionales Bibliothèque 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
1793609491793. Te Dordrecht By A. Blussé en Zoon 1793 4° IV 340 pp. 6 Kuoferstichtafeln Halbledereinband d.Zt.; frisches Exemplar. INHOUD VAN DIT DEEL: Proeve van eene Zedenkundige Rekenkunde. Rekenkundige Maaten. Meetkundige Maaten. Van de waarschijnlijkheden van de duuring van het leven. Tafel van de waarschijnlijkheid van het leven. Algemeene Tafel van de Geborene Getrouwde Paaren en Gestorvene in de Stad Parys van het jaar 1709 tot het jaar 1766 ingesloten. Tafel van de Gedoopte Getrouwde Paaren en Begravene in de Stad Montbard in Bourgonje. Tafel der Geborene Getrouwde Paaren en Overledene in de Stad Semur in Auxois. Tafel van de Geborene Getrouwde Paaren en Overledene in de Stad Flavigny. Tafel van de Geborene Getrouwde Paaren en Overledene in de Stad Vitteaux. Tafel van de Geborene Getrouwde Paaren en Overledene in de Burgt Epoisses en verscheiden dorpen van de Bailluagie van Semur in Auxois. Tafel van de Geborene Getrouwde Paaren en Overledene in de geheele Bailluagie van Semur in Auxois. Tafel van de Geborene Getrouwde Paaren en Gestorvene in de Bailluagie van Saulieu in Bourgonje. Vergelijking der sterfte in de Stad Parys en op het Land. Vergelijking van de sterf-lijsten in Frankrijk met de sterflijsten te Londen. Bijvoegzel op het hoofdstuk waarin gehandeld wordt van de klierachtige lighaamen die het zaadvogt der wijfjens bevatten Bijvoegzel op het hoofdstuk waarin gehandeld wordt van de verscheidenheid in de Voortteeling en van de Voortteeling van zelve. Bijvoegzel op het hoofdstuk waarin van de bevalling gehandeld wordt. Waarneeming omtrent eene laate geboorte. Waarneeming van eene zeer vroege geboorte. Bijvoegzel op het hoofdstuk van de kindsheid. I. Jonggeboren Kinderen welken men genoodzaakt is het tongriemtjen doortesnijden. II. Over het gebruik van Zwagtels en Keurslijven. III. Over den groei der Kinderen.- Bijvoegzel op het hoofdstuk over de Huwbaarheid. Bijvoegzel op de Beschrijving van den Mensch. I. Menschen van eene buitengewoone dikte. II. Reuzen. III. Dwergen. IV. Voedzel van den Mensch in verschillende lugtstreeken. Bijvoegzel op het Hoofdstuk over den Ouderdom en den Dood. Bijvoegsel op het Hoofdstuk over het Zintuig des Gezigts Bijvoegzel op het Hoofdstuk over het Zintuig van het Gehoor. Over de stem der Dieren. Over den graad van hitte welke de mensch en de dieren verdraagen kunnen Bijvoegzel op het Hoofdstuk ten opschriftvoerende verscheidenheden in het menschlijk geslagt. Over de kleur der Negers. Over de Dwergen van Madagaskar. Van de Patagoniers. Over de Amerikaanen. Eilanders yan da Zuid-zee. Bewooners van de Zuid-landen. Van de Blaffards en Witte Negers. Over de Monsters. Academische Redenvoeringen. Ontwerp van een andwoord aan den Heer de Coëtlosquet oud Bischop van Limoges bij zijne intrede inde Académie Françoise. Andwoord aan den Heer Watelet. Andwoord aan den Heer de la Condamine Andwoord aan den Heer Ridder de Chastelux. Andwoord aan den Heer Marschalk Hertog van Duras. Door den Heer de Buffon. Vertaald door J.D. Pasteur "A developing science depended on The Natural History of Man a work that was found to possess the functional capacity of extending the boundaries of knowledge. 'Buffon enlarged all the questions he touched on furthermore he created new questions' Flourens 1850:155. As soon as the 'varieties' and therefore the variations in man became the central issue to be elucidated the analysis of the biological and sociological mechanisms responsible for creating racial differences became more diversified. A discipline was thus created one that would rapidly differentiate between its objects of inquiry and its techniques of inquiry. It can be seen then that without any kind of break the Buffonian ideology of man retrospectively discovered a scholarly solution in what Thomas Kuhn called a 'disciplinary matrix' a hard kernel of statements principles deductive links and exemplary cases that allowed work on proofs to proceed within a framework of cumulative knowledge. At the origin of this process of'crystallization' there was neither the stroke of intuitive genius of a solitary scientist nor a 'great idea' divorced from its social pre-text. Instead there is a complex process whose contextual and biographical foundations as well as future academic and nationalistic issues are revealed by epistemological analysis." CLAUDE BLANCKAERT Buffon and the natural history of man: writing history and the 'foundational myth' of anthropology. HISTORY OF THE HUMAN SCIENCES 6/1 1993 pp.13-50 unknown
1799K7GA40HGCEBOParis 1799. 12mo. Crapelet Contemporary half calf spines with brown and green title-labels marbled sides. With a hand-coloured engraved portrait of Buffon in the first part. 3 volumes. XXVII 332; 4 319; 4 387 pp. The first three volumes containing the complete introduction of the Cours complet d'histoire naturelle pour faire suite à Buffon 80 volumes edited by the French naturalist and poet René Richard Louis Castel 1758-1832. The first part contains the Théorie de la terre the second the Époques de la nature and the third the Discours généraux sur l'histoire naturelle. With a bookplate on paste-down. Hinges of volume 1 cracked bindings rubbed along the extremities. Internally in very good condition. unknown
1774F8M97DYNZ8OAParis 1774. 4to. Imprimerie Royale 1774-1782 vols. 1-6; Dordrecht A. Blussé and son Contemporary mottled calf gold-tooled spine and board edges vols. 1-6 uniform 19th-century half calf shell marbled sides gold-tooled spine vol. 7. With an illustration vignette or ornament on each title-page woodcut for vols. 1-6 engraving for vol. 7 5 engraved headpieces 2 folding engraved maps "Carte de la chaine des montagnes de Langres" and "Carte des deux regions polaires" 218 plates full-page and folding and including 2 bis all engraved some arithmetic calculations and tables in text woodcut head- and tailpieces. 7 volumes. The complete supplements to Buffon's famous Histoire naturelle with the first 6 volumes in the first edition and the last volume in the new edition published in Amsterdam and Dordrecht the only quarto edition to rival the original French Imprimerie Royale edition.Supplements I II and V contain additions and corrections to Buffon's essay "Théorie de la terre" in which he'' He extrapolated the results of his experiments . . . in order to calculate the time required for the cooling of the earth and other planets'' DSB. Additionally he provides introductions to the history of mineral resources and vegetation in the first and second supplement volumes respectively . The Époques de la nature Supplément V presents a plutonian history of the earth. "This work is of considerable interest because it offers a history of nature combining geology with biology and particularly because of Buffon's attempt to establish a universal chronology'' DSB. It also contains a great deal of mineralogical material he elaborated on in his Histoire naturelle des mineraux. Other volumes contain additions to the quadrupeds and human species section The bindings show some scratches and minor wear but are structurally sound volume 5 with a few water stains in blank corners and on the polar region map. The complete Suppléments to Buffon's masterpiece in very good condition.l Bertin et al. Buffon Paris 1952 especially p. 235; DSB II pp. 576-581; Nissen ZBI 672 678; PMM 198. unknown
1766ABC_47564Dordrecht: Abraham Blussé 1766. Contemporary uniform half tanned sheepskin sewn on 5 supports gold-tooled spines each volume with author subject and part number on 2 green spine labels in the 2nd and 3rd of 6 compartments paste-paper sides. Large 4to. With more than 1100 hand-coloured engraved plates 10 maps 1 folding engraved table and an engraved portrait of Buffon by Houbraken with an extra-added plain portrait pasted on the verso. 38 parts in 21 volumes. Including:Volume 1: tome 1: Théorie de la Terre 2 plates tome 2: Histoire générale des animaux 8 plates tome 3: Histoire naturelle de l'homme 18 plates. Volume 2: tomes 4 & 5: Les Quadrupèdes 23 and 60 plates and an engraved table of dogs. Volume 3: tomes 6 & 7: Les Quadrupèdes 49 and 48 plates Volume 4: tomes 8 & 9: Les Quadrupèdes 54 and 41 plates.Volume 5: tomes 10 & 11: Les Quadrupèdes 57 and 45 plates.Volume 6: tomes 12 & 13: Les Quadrupèdes 60 and 62 plates.Volume 7: tomes 14 & 15: Les Quadrupèdes 60 and 16 plates.Volume 8: Supplément tomes I - II 17 plates.Volume 9: Supplément à l'histoire de l'homme et aux animaux quadrupèdes - tomes III-IV 6 and 67 plates.Volume 10: Supplément les époques de la natures - tomes V-VI 46 and 6 plates 10 maps.Volume 11: Supplément tome VII 74 plates Volume 12: Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux nouvelle édition tome 1: 29 platesVolume 13: Oiseaux: tomes 2 & 3: 27 & 31 platesVolume 14: Oiseaux: tomes 4 & 5: 28 & 22 platesVolume 15: Oiseaux: tomes 6 & 7: 25 & 31 platesVolume 16: Oiseaux: tomes 8 & 9: 39 & 31 plates. Volume 17: Histoire Naturelle des Minéraux nouvelle édition tomes 1 & 2; Volume 18: Minéraux: tomes 3 & 4; Volume 19: Minéraux: tome 5 traité de l'aimant et de ses usages.Volume 20: Histoire Naturelle des Quadrupèdes ovipares et des serpens nouvelle édition tome 1: 41 platesVolume 21: Quadrupèdes ovipares et des serpens: tome 2: 22 plates Finely hand-coloured copy of the 1766-1799 Netherlands edition in French of Buffon's justly famous Histoire naturelle the complete first series covering the formation of the earth humans mammalian quadrupeds and apes reptiles and amphibians birds fishes and even minerals also describing the royal collection of Louis XV. Buffon's work presents ''for the first time a complete survey of natural history in popular form'' PMM. The present set in the works rarest and most expensive form is exquisite. The subscription notices periodically mention copies printed on fine paper but they do not mention hand-coloured copies. Landwehr discussing the first Dutch-language edition no. 46 by the same publisher cites contemporary sources referring to four forms of publication: on regular paper on large paper with hand-coloured plates and most expensive of all with hand-coloured plates and vignettes.Buffon opens the first volume with an essay called "Théorie de la terre" 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. 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.Buffon did not believe in the fixity of species but proposed that nature is constantly changing. For instance in the case of quadrupeds he stated that there were 38 basic types that degenerated over the centuries. According to Buffon the monkey is a degenerated man the ass a degenerated horse. His interest in the precise connection between groups of animals that are obviously related prompted Buffon to devote much attention to comparative anatomy in the Histoire naturelle. He also stressed the importance of the study of earth sciences for botany and zoology. "Life and animation instead of being a metaphysical point in being is a physical property of matter" DSB. Buffon's views on the origin and development of species and the history of the earth show how he tried to describe natural phenomena by means of science discarding metaphysical and religious explanations. "He was the first to create an autonomous science free of any theological influence . and established the intellectual framework within which most naturalists up to Darwin worked" DSB.Buffon was assisted by the anatomist Louis Daubenton and others and the final volumes were completed after his death under the direction of Comte de Lacépède.With the owners name Sir George. Murray 1772-1846 on the half-title of most volumes. He was a Scottish soldier from a noble family who served in Flanders the West Indies Egypt and elsewhere eventually becoming quarter master general of Wellingtons staff in Spain and Portugal and reaching the rank of General. He was Knighted in 1813 held governorships of several colonies and the military college at Sandhurst along with leading posts at the Colonial Office where he helped establish the colony of Western Australia and served from 1823 as a member of the British parliament. With the bookplate of the German entrepreneur and bibliophile Hans Dedi 1918-2016. Lacking a few half-titles for example in the bird volumes 1 and 2 but otherwise in very good condition most of the plates fine with occasional stains and spots a few tears and repairs the binding also with some minor wear and repairs. A splendid copy of a seminal monument of natural history.l Landwehr Coloured plates 45 and 46 Dutch ed.; Nissen ZBI 678. Abraham Blussé, unknown
178346110Paris: De L'imprimerie Royale 1783. First separate edition 9 volumes complete with 262 engraved plates by De Seve; 4to marbled endpapers title-page engravings and illustrations in the text; extremities rubbed and worn some hinges weak with joints starting v. 1 missing spine labels approx. half of v. 9 spine is perished interior very good and sound plates are mostly fine and bright; overall a good set in full contemporary mottled calf with triple gilt rules on covers insignia stamped in blind on covers excluding v. 6 & 9 all edges marbled gilt-decorated spines red morocco labels lettered in gilt. As noted in Sitwell a new set of 262 uncolored plates were made for this separate edition of the bird volumes the plates in the first edition of Histoire Naturelle Generale were by Francois Nicolas Martinet. Sitwell p. 83; Nissen 158; Wood p. 262; Brunet p.1376 Ebert 3131. De L'imprimerie Royale unknown
17917169Madrid: viuda de JoaquÃn Ibarra 1791. Second edition. Hardcover — Tapa dura. 204x135mm. 8x5¼". Madrid viuda de Ibarra 1791-1805. En 4º menor 204 x 135mm. 21 volúmenes. 487 láminas coloreadas a mano de época. Encuadernación uniforme en piel de época lomera con adornos dorados y dos tejuelos en marroquén. Segunda edición impresa sobre buen papel de hilo ilustrada con 487 láminas grabadas y coloreadas a mano en la época. Se trata de una enciclopedia incluye todo el saber de la época concerniente a las ciencias naturales. La <em>Historia Natural</em> publicada en los albores de la Ilustración tuvo una profunda influencia en el pensamiento cientÃfico de la época 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
1799017345Paris: De F. Bufart 1799. Vol. 44 of a 127 Volume Set. Book is dated "A N X" The tenth year of the revolution 1799 at the bottom of the title page. Full mottled calf with red and black label on the spine gilt spine is chipped and worn and it has been expertly relaid original endpapers numerous black & white tissue guarded plates of birds. No previous owner's names not exlibrary. Overall in VERY 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 but also stated that "the first author who in modern times has treated it in a scientific spirit was Buffon". The Lycée Buffon in Paris is named after him. Full Cloth. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. De F. Bufart Hardcover
1799017342Paris: De F. Bufart 1799. Vol. 60 of a 127 Volume Set. Book is dated "A N X" The tenth year of the revolution 1799 at the bottom of the title page. Full mottled calf with red and black label on the spine gilt spine is chipped and worn and it has been expertly relaid original endpapers numerous black & white tissue guarded plates of birds. No previous owner's names not exlibrary. Overall in VERY 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 but also stated that "the first author who in modern times has treated it in a scientific spirit was Buffon". The Lycée Buffon in Paris is named after him. Full Cloth. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. De F. Bufart Hardcover
1799017339Paris: De F. Bufart 1799. Vol. 41 of a 127 Volume Set. Book is dated "A N X" The tenth year of the revolution 1799 at the bottom of the title page. Full mottled calf with red and black label on the spine gilt spine is chipped and worn and it has been expertly relaid original endpapers numerous black & white tissue guarded plates of birds. No previous owner's names not exlibrary. Overall in VERY 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 but also stated that "the first author who in modern times has treated it in a scientific spirit was Buffon". The Lycée Buffon in Paris is named after him. Full Cloth. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. De F. Bufart Hardcover
1799017349Paris: De F. Bufart 1799. Vol. 62 of a 127 Volume Set. Book is dated "A N X" The tenth year of the revolution 1799 at the bottom of the title page. Full mottled calf with red and black label on the spine gilt spine is chipped and worn and it has been expertly relaid original endpapers numerous black & white tissue guarded plates of birds. No previous owner's names not exlibrary. Overall in VERY 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 but also stated that "the first author who in modern times has treated it in a scientific spirit was Buffon". The Lycée Buffon in Paris is named after him. Full Cloth. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. De F. Bufart Hardcover
1799017344Paris: De F. Bufart 1799. Vol. 56 of a 127 Volume Set. Book is dated "A N X" The tenth year of the revolution 1799 at the bottom of the title page. Full mottled calf with red and black label on the spine gilt spine is chipped and worn and it has been expertly relaid original endpapers numerous black & white tissue guarded plates of birds. No previous owner's names not exlibrary. Overall in VERY 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 but also stated that "the first author who in modern times has treated it in a scientific spirit was Buffon". The Lycée Buffon in Paris is named after him. Full Cloth. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. De F. Bufart Hardcover
1799017341Paris: De F. Bufart 1799. Vol. 42 of a 127 Volume Set. Book is dated "A N X" The tenth year of the revolution 1799 at the bottom of the title page. Full mottled calf with red and black label on the spine gilt spine is chipped and worn and it has been expertly relaid original endpapers numerous black & white tissue guarded plates of birds. No previous owner's names not exlibrary. Overall in VERY 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 but also stated that "the first author who in modern times has treated it in a scientific spirit was Buffon". The Lycée Buffon in Paris is named after him. Full Cloth. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. De F. Bufart Hardcover
1799017348Paris: De F. Bufart 1799. Vol. 63 of a 127 Volume Set. Book is dated "A N X" The tenth year of the revolution 1799 at the bottom of the title page. Full mottled calf with red and black label on the spine gilt spine is chipped and worn and it has been expertly relaid original endpapers numerous black & white tissue guarded plates of birds. No previous owner's names not exlibrary. Overall in VERY 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 but also stated that "the first author who in modern times has treated it in a scientific spirit was Buffon". The Lycée Buffon in Paris is named after him. Full Cloth. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. De F. Bufart Hardcover
1799017338Paris: De F. Bufart 1799. Vol. 57 of a 127 Volume Set. Book is dated "A N X" The tenth year of the revolution 1799 at the bottom of the title page. Full mottled calf with red and black label on the spine gilt spine is chipped and worn and it has been expertly relaid original endpapers numerous black & white tissue guarded plates of birds. No previous owner's names not exlibrary. Overall in VERY 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 but also stated that "the first author who in modern times has treated it in a scientific spirit was Buffon". The Lycée Buffon in Paris is named after him. Full Cloth. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. De F. Bufart Hardcover
1799017340Paris: De F. Bufart 1799. Vol. 59 of a 127 Volume Set. Book is dated "A N X" The tenth year of the revolution 1799 at the bottom of the title page. Full mottled calf with red and black label on the spine gilt spine is chipped and worn and it has been expertly relaid original endpapers numerous black & white tissue guarded plates of birds. No previous owner's names not exlibrary. Overall in VERY 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 but also stated that "the first author who in modern times has treated it in a scientific spirit was Buffon". The Lycée Buffon in Paris is named after him. Full Cloth. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. De F. Bufart Hardcover
1799017343Paris: De F. Bufart 1799. Vol. 61 of a 127 Volume Set. Book is dated "A N X" The tenth year of the revolution 1799 at the bottom of the title page. Full mottled calf with red and black label on the spine gilt spine is chipped and worn and it has been expertly relaid original endpapers numerous black & white tissue guarded plates of birds. No previous owner's names not exlibrary. Overall in VERY 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 but also stated that "the first author who in modern times has treated it in a scientific spirit was Buffon". The Lycée Buffon in Paris is named after him. Full Cloth. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. De F. Bufart Hardcover
1799017347Paris: De F. Bufart 1799. Vol. 40 of a 127 Volume Set. Book is dated "A N X" The tenth year of the revolution 1799 at the bottom of the title page. Full mottled calf with red and black label on the spine gilt spine is chipped and worn and it has been expertly relaid original endpapers numerous black & white tissue guarded plates of birds. No previous owner's names not exlibrary. Overall in VERY 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 but also stated that "the first author who in modern times has treated it in a scientific spirit was Buffon". The Lycée Buffon in Paris is named after him. Full Cloth. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. De F. Bufart Hardcover
1799017346Paris: De F. Bufart 1799. Vol. 43 of a 127 Volume Set. Book is dated "A N X" The tenth year of the revolution 1799 at the bottom of the title page. Full mottled calf with red and black label on the spine gilt spine is chipped and worn and it has been expertly relaid original endpapers numerous black & white tissue guarded plates of birds. No previous owner's names not exlibrary. Overall in VERY 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 but also stated that "the first author who in modern times has treated it in a scientific spirit was Buffon". The Lycée Buffon in Paris is named after him. Full Cloth. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. De F. Bufart Hardcover
179564067Lausanne. 1795. Highly decorative engraving of the exotic bird by Buffon a French naturalist mathematician biologist cosmologist and author. Le Comte de Buffon was struck by the diversity of life and was not content with existing explanations of the natural world. 100 years before Darwin Buffon in his Histoire Naturelle a 44 volume encyclopedia describing everything known about the natural world was considering common ancestry of man and apes. Histoire naturelle : générale et particulière Oiseaux. Copper engraving. Hand coloured. Mounted size: 380 x 320 mm Fine condition. unknown
179564078Lausanne. 1795. Highly decorative engraving of the exotic bird by Buffon a French naturalist mathematician biologist cosmologist and author. Le Comte de Buffon was struck by the diversity of life and was not content with existing explanations of the natural world. 100 years before Darwin Buffon in his Histoire Naturelle a 44 volume encyclopedia describing everything known about the natural world was considering common ancestry of man and apes. Histoire naturelle : générale et particulière Oiseaux. Copper engraving. Hand coloured. Mounted size: 380 x 320 mm Fine condition. unknown
179564070Lausanne. 1795. Highly decorative engraving of the exotic bird by Buffon a French naturalist mathematician biologist cosmologist and author. Le Comte de Buffon was struck by the diversity of life and was not content with existing explanations of the natural world. 100 years before Darwin Buffon in his Histoire Naturelle a 44 volume encyclopedia describing everything known about the natural world was considering common ancestry of man and apes. Histoire naturelle : générale et particulière Oiseaux. Size: 210 x 180 mm. Copper engraving. Hand coloured. Mounted size: 380 x 320 mm Fine condition. unknown
179564068Lausanne. 1795. Highly decorative engraving of the exotic bird by Buffon a French naturalist mathematician biologist cosmologist and author. Le Comte de Buffon was struck by the diversity of life and was not content with existing explanations of the natural world. 100 years before Darwin Buffon in his Histoire Naturelle a 44 volume encyclopedia describing everything known about the natural world was considering common ancestry of man and apes. Histoire naturelle : générale et particulière Oiseaux. Copper engraving. Hand coloured. Mounted size: 380 x 320 mm Fine condition. unknown
