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17706205Paris l: Imprimerie Royale 1770-86. Engraved plate with original hand-colour approx 25.5 x 21 cms from Histoire Naturelle de Oiseaux. Print Imprimerie Royale unknown
1785468853London; A. Strahan and T. Cadell 1785 Second Edition. Very Good. 1785. Hardcover. hardback 8vo iv443pp 35 plates as called for pages browning and some light foxing otherwise clean and tight no inscriptions marbled endpapers full leather binding gilt spine decorations and titles Very Good condition. Volume 6 only . London; A. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1785, Second Edition,., hardcover
17706219Paris l: Imprimerie Royale 1770-86. Engraved plate with original hand-colour approx 25.5 x 21 cms from Histoire Naturelle de Oiseaux. Print Imprimerie Royale unknown
17706216Paris l: Imprimerie Royale 1770-86. Engraved plate with original hand-colour approx 25.5 x 21 cms from Histoire Naturelle de Oiseaux. Print Imprimerie Royale unknown
17704023Paris l: Imprimerie Royale 1770-86. Engraved plate with original hand-colour approx 25.5 x 21 cms from Histoire Naturelle de Oiseaux. Print Imprimerie Royale unknown
17706650Paris l: Imprimerie Royale 1770-86. Engraved plate with original hand-colour approx 25 x 21 cms from Histoire Naturelle de Oiseaux. Print Imprimerie Royale unknown
17706666Paris l: Imprimerie Royale 1770-86. Engraved plate with original hand-colour approx 25 x 21 cms from Histoire Naturelle de Oiseaux. Print Imprimerie Royale unknown
17706213Paris l: Imprimerie Royale 1770-86. Engraved plate with original hand-colour approx 25.5 x 21 cms from Histoire Naturelle de Oiseaux. Print Imprimerie Royale unknown
17704575Paris l: Imprimerie Royale 1770-86. Engraved plate with original hand-colour approx 25.5 x 21 cms from Histoire Naturelle de Oiseaux. Print Imprimerie Royale unknown
17706665Paris l: Imprimerie Royale 1770-86. Engraved plate with original hand-colour approx 25 x 21 cms from Histoire Naturelle de Oiseaux. Print Imprimerie Royale unknown
17706658Paris l: Imprimerie Royale 1770-86. Engraved plate with original hand-colour approx 25 x 21 cms from Histoire Naturelle de Oiseaux. Print Imprimerie Royale unknown
17706211Paris l: Imprimerie Royale 1770-86. Engraved plate with original hand-colour approx 25.5 x 21 cms from Histoire Naturelle de Oiseaux. Print Imprimerie Royale unknown
17706663Paris l: Imprimerie Royale 1770-86. Engraved plate with original hand-colour approx 25 x 21 cms from Histoire Naturelle de Oiseaux. Print Imprimerie Royale unknown
1791051051Silvester Doig. Good with no dust jacket. 1791. Hardcover. Hardcover. Brown leather boards with title on spine. Boards and spine are scuffed and frayed. Interior paste downs have paper remnants soil and foxing. Endpapers removed. Half of half title page has been removed as well. Hinges cracked binding is still tight. One illustration has been inked in with offset to the next page. Another illustration has lower half removed. Foxing and tanning some shadow offset from illustrations. Always carefully wrapped and shipped in cardboard boxes to protect your purchase. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Silvester Doig hardcover
179339283Printed for A. Strahan and T. Cadell and J. Murray 1793. English edition. Fair/No Jacket. Full leather bindings disbound Front boards detached as is the rear board of vol. 2. Text blocks largely intact save for occasional loose blank initial pages; sparingly illustrated with full-page engravings. Owner's signatures. Bookplate of Frederick J. Gibbins. Printed for A. Strahan and T. Cadell, and J. Murray hardcover
17704558Paris l: Imprimerie Royale 1770-86. Engraved plate with original hand-colour approx 25.5 x 21 cms from Histoire Naturelle de Oiseaux. Print Imprimerie Royale unknown
17706201Paris l: Imprimerie Royale 1770-86. Engraved plate with original hand-colour approx 25.5 x 21 cms from Histoire Naturelle de Oiseaux. Print Imprimerie Royale unknown
17706198Paris l: Imprimerie Royale 1770-86. Engraved plate with original hand-colour approx 25.5 x 21 cms from Histoire Naturelle de Oiseaux. Print Imprimerie Royale unknown
17706199Paris l: Imprimerie Royale 1770-86. Engraved plate with original hand-colour approx 25.5 x 21 cms from Histoire Naturelle de Oiseaux. Print Imprimerie Royale unknown
17706202Paris l: Imprimerie Royale 1770-86. Engraved plate with original hand-colour approx 25.5 x 21 cms from Histoire Naturelle de Oiseaux. Print Imprimerie Royale unknown
17706659Paris l: Imprimerie Royale 1770-86. Engraved plate with original hand-colour approx 25 x 21 cms from Histoire Naturelle de Oiseaux. Print Imprimerie Royale unknown
17704574Paris l: Imprimerie Royale 1770-86. Engraved plate with original hand-colour approx 25.5 x 21 cms from Histoire Naturelle de Oiseaux. Print Imprimerie Royale unknown
177714625AB1777. Nouvele édition. volume 3 of 10. Paris Thou 1777. 205 : 125 cm. Title 308 pages with 31 engraved plates. Contemporary calf spine richly gilt back label. The engraving in strong printing show birds in there surroundings at a river on the sea in the field near houses etc. - Some minor stains otherwise fine. unknown
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. <br/><br/><em>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. </em> hardcover
176139518Paris Imprimerie Royale 1761. 4to. Contemporary full mottled calf spine and boards worn. 4 376 pp. With engraved vignette on titlepage and 41 full-page engraved plates many folding. Plate 16 torn. <br/><br/><em>Volume 9 in the first edition. Plates describing lions tigers leopards hyenas &c. Buffon is best remembered for his great work Histoire naturelle générale et particulière 1749-788: in 35 volumes 9 additional volumes published after his death by Lacépède. It included everything known about the natural world up until that date. "Written in a brilliant style this work was read. by every educated person in Europe." Those who assisted him in the production of this great work included Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton. His Histoire was translated into many different languages making him one of the most widely read authors of the day equaling Rousseau and Voltaire. </em> hardcover
