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1853189172Paris: Furne 1853. Hardcover. G Covers have general wear edge/corner damage Spines have some folding. Bookblocks have age toning Interior pages have age toning and foxing. French language text. Decorative cloth boards Black leather spine and corners. Gilt lettering on spine Vol 1 782 pgs. Vol 2 775 pgs. Furne hardcover
182432129Paris: Chex Boiste Fils. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1824. Hardcover. Zoology; B&W Illustrations; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 347 pages; 60 illlustrations of various creatures on ten heavy paper sheets. Some scattered foxing. Last 5 pages with small dog ears. Contemporary calf leather lacking part of spine cover. Provenance- Estate of William Nixon III. . Chex Boiste Fils hardcover
18046665Paris: De l'Imprimerie Royale later Imprimerie des Bâtimens du Roi; Hôtel de Thou; Plassan 1804. First edition. <p>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and from cooling experiments in his own forge at Montbard estimated its age at roughly seventy-five thousand years; in unpublished notes his private estimate reaches three million - the order of magnitude Lyell would later extract from stratigraphy and Darwin require for natural selection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.</p>. The Founding Treatise of Secular Science. <p>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."</p> <br /> <br /> <p>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.</p> <br /> <br /> <p>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.</p> <br /> <br /> <p>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.</p> <br /> <br /> <p>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.</p> <br /> <br /> <p>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.</p> <br /> <br /> <p>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.</p> <br /> <br /> <p>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.</p> <br /> <br /> <p>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.</p> <br /> <br /> <p>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.</p> <br /> <br /> <p>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.</p> <br /> <br/> <br/> <br /> <p>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.</p> . De l'Imprimerie Royale [later Imprimerie des Bâtimens du Roi; Hôtel de Thou; Plassan] unknown
18191350038Paris: Chez Chevalier 1819. Hardcover. Octavos two volumes; G; Early black glossy spine with faded gilt lettering and gilt graphic designs; Boards have moderate bumping and wear to corners cracking to gloss finish along hinges of both volumes moderate wear to applied gilt graphics and lettering and light shelfwear overall; Textblocks have light shelfwear to bottom edges light foxing to pages near beginning and end of each volume and light age-toning overall; The ex libris of a former owner appears on the front paste-down of each volume; Illustrated; Volumes III and IV only; CONTENTS: Vol. III. Contains 32 fold-out plates including frontispiece / iii 264 pages 2 -- Vol. IV. Contains 31 fold-out plates including frontispiece / 6 263 pages 2;. 1350038. Special Collections - Downstairs. Chez Chevalier hardcover
182715481Société de Paris Paris 1827 1827. priv. Pappband 2 Bände 300 396s 49 Tafeln einige Seiten fleckig und mit Knickspuren sonst in gutem Zustand AZC91 . . HC Société de Paris, Paris 1827, hardcover
1812004503London: T. Cadell and W. Davies 1812. New Enlarged Edition. Hardcover. Good. Copperplate Engravings . 8vo 419 pages contemporary full calf joints rehinged inked name on half-title page no spine labels. <br/><br/>Translated by William Smellie editor of The Encyclopedia Britannica. Vol. 4 of 20 : covering the Domesticated Animals especially dogs. 49 copperplates. PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 198. T. Cadell and W. Davies hardcover
1812004505London: T. Cadell and W. Davies 1812. New Enlarged Edition. Hardcover. Good. Copperplate Engravings . Octavo 439 pages contemporary full calf rear cover detached inked name on half-title page no spine labels. <br/><br/>Translated by William Smellie editor of The Encyclopedia Britannica. Vol. 6 of 20 : covering a Dissertation on Tigers Rodents Bats etc. 65 copperplates. PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 198. T. Cadell and W. Davies hardcover
1812004512London: T. Cadell and W. Davies 1812. New Enlarged Edition. Hardcover. Good. Copperplate Engravings . Octavo 514 pages contemporary full calf inked name on half-title page no spine labels <br/><br/>Translated by William Smellie editor of The Encyclopedia Britannica. Vols. 19 of 20 : being vol. 9 of The History of Birds with coverage of avocets curlews Ibis grebes plovers merganser frigate pelican sea gulls etc . 40 copperplates. PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 198. T. Cadell and W. Davies hardcover
1812004510London: T. Cadell and W. Davies 1812. New Enlarged Edition. Hardcover. Good. Copperplate Engravings . Octavo 467 pages contemporary full calf joints repaired inked name on half-title page no spine labels heel of spine chipped. <br/><br/>Translated by William Smellie editor of The Encyclopedia Britannica. Vols. 15 of 20 : being vol. 5 of The History of Birds with coverage of manikins anters flycatchers larks nightingales wheatear fauvettes. 22 copperplates. PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 198. T. Cadell and W. Davies hardcover
1812004511London: T. Cadell and W. Davies 1812. New Enlarged Edition. Hardcover. Good. Copperplate Engravings . Octavo 493 pages contemporary full calf joints rehinged inked name on half-title page no spine labels <br/><br/>Translated by William Smellie editor of The Encyclopedia Britannica. Vols. 16 of 20 : being vol. 6 of The History of Birds with coverage of bergeronettes figeaters wrens titmice nuthatches parrotscockatoos lories. 15 plates. PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 198. T. Cadell and W. Davies hardcover
1812004504London: T. Cadell and W. Davies 1812. New Enlarged Edition. Hardcover. Good. Copperplate Engravings . Octavo 378 pages contemporary full calf joints cracked inked name on half-title page no spine labels. <br/><br/>Translated by William Smellie editor of The Encyclopedia Britannica. Vol. 5 of 20 : covering a Dissertation on Wild Animals especially wolves. 64 copperplates. PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 198. T. Cadell and W. Davies hardcover
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
183979219Paris: Furne et Cie Libraires-Éditeurs 1839. 265 x 18 cm. Half leather hardcovers. Volumes IVI. iv 782 pp; iv 776 pp; iv 726 pp; iv 784 pp; iv 654 pp; iv 732 pp. With 55 plates of which 51 depict animals. The text is complete; the plate set is incomplete should be 116 plates. Illustrated with hand-coloured engravings including mostly animals and some maps. Foxing throughout heavy on several pages and a few pages detached. Several plates are also affected by spots and browning but the bindings are uniformly decorative in red half leather with gilt and black tooling. French text. Conclusion: foxing some detached pages incomplete plates text complete attractive bindings see pictures. Furne et Cie, Libraires-Éditeurs hardcover
185526088AB1855. 12 Bde. Paris Garnier 1855-57. 4to. Mit 1 gest. Front. 4 grenzkolor. Stahlstichkarten und 145 144 kolor. Stahlstichtafeln. Hldr. d. Zt. mit goldgepr. RTit. Die gesuchte reich illustrierte Quartausgabe der Oeuvres complètes in einem schönen Exemplar. - Nissen 705. - Enthält Buffons zwischen 1749 und 1789 erstmals veröffentlichte Histoire naturelle die eine der ersten naturgeschichtlichen Darstellungen über Biologie und Geologie der Erde enthielt die sich nicht auf die Bibel berief. Dabei verwendete der Verfasser ausschließlich empirisch begründete Argumente um Naturerscheinungen zu erklären. Sein Hauptwerk gilt Nissen zufolge als die 'geistvollste und stilistisch gewandteste Naturgeschichte die bisher geschrieben wurde und mit Recht zur Weltliteratur gerechnet' wird Nissen 132. Die vorliegende Quartausgabe dieses Klassikers dokumentiert die nachhaltige Wirkungsgeschichte bis in die zweite Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts. Die Tafeln in schönem teilweise eiweißgehöhten Kolorit. - Stellenweise gering stockfleckig. unknown
1828ABC_50439Brussels 1828. 8vo. Th. Lejeune Contemporary half calf marble boards gold-tooled spine with green and blue compartments author title and volume number lettered in gold on the spine green sprinkled edges. With a lithographed frontispiece portrait of the author a 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 etc. 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 including 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 including 226 coloured by hand in volumes 6 to 10 and illustrations of birds on 210 lithographed plates all beautifully coloured by hand and including 8 heightened with gold in volumes 11 to 14. 20 volumes 14 text and 6 atlas. 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 whose ground-breaking observations and classifications profoundly influenced biology geology and the natural sciences across Europe. This Brussels edition was edited by Professor Lamouroux correspondant of the Institut de France and enhanced with extensive contributions by Buffon's successors including Daubenton Lacépède Cuvier Duméril Poiret Lesson and Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire whose additions were appended to the relevant chapters to provide the most current scientific observations and refinements.The work opens with two prefaces by the publishers and two eulogies one on Buffon by Nicolas de Condorcet 1743-1794 and the other on Louis Jean Marie Daubenton 1716-1800 by Baron Cuvier 1796-1832 situating the compilation within its historical and intellectual context. The illustrations were produced under the supervision of M. Meunier draughtsman of the Cabinet dHistoire Naturelle and for the first time lithographed a technique that allowed according to the Paris publisher a far more faithful representation of living subjects than was previously possible with traditional engraving. The lithography was executed by Th. Lejeune in Brussels on specially prepared paper ensuring clarity and durability.The set is divided into four major sections. Théorie de la terre volumes 1-4 illustrating minerals fossils and natural phenomena along with emblematic and scientific designs. Histoire naturelle de lhomme volume 5 depicting human anatomy physiognomy and the diversity of peoples across the globe. Mammifères volumes 6-10 presenting mammals in remarkable anatomical and behavioural detail. Oiseaux volumes 11-14 illustrating the appearance and structure of birds in natural poses. All of these topics are also represented in 6 separate atlas volumes providing a complete visual complement to the text.In total the edition contains 738 lithographs maps and plates almost two-thirds of which depict mammals and birds in rich hand-colouring demonstrating both scientific precision and extraordinary artistry. This edition preserves Buffon's original genius while reflecting the cumulative expertise of successive generations of naturalists making it one of the most comprehensive visually impressive and historically significant editions of Buffons Oeuvres complètes ever produced.With a red ownership stamp on the title page and the recto of the first flyleaf of the first volume of Théorie de la Terre Dr. A.A. v. Otterloo possibly Antony Adriaan van Otterloo 1847-1895 pastor in Zutphen The Netherlands from 1883. Some minor rubbing is visible on a few boards and all volumes show foxing. Otherwise in very good condition.l Bibl. Natura Artis Magistra 1171; Nissen 689; Sitwell Fine Bird Books 1700-1900 p. 83; Wood 268; Zimmer J.T. Ayer Lib. p. 112-113. hardcover
185531004AB1855. 12 Bände. Paris Librairie Garnier Freres 6 rue des Saints-Peres 1855. 4°. Mit über 8000 Seiten. 150 kolorierte Stahlstiche. Halbleinenbände mit geprägter Rückenbeschriftung. Mit Gebrauchspuren. Durchgehend stockfleckig. unknown
1853800540Paris: Garnier Frères 1853 !. leather_bound. Gut. Zusammen ca. 7800 Seiten. Original-Halbleder auf vier falschen Bünden mit Rückenvergoldung. 4°. Ecken und Kanten bestoßen Rückenkanten teilweise mit kleinen Läsuren innen teilweise stockfleckig aber wenig gelesen teils unaufgeschnitten im Ganzen ordentlich erhaltene Exemplare. Sowohl Außen wie Innen ein dekoratives und repräsentatives Werk das zu Lebzeiten Buffons_als "Histoire Naturelle" herausgegeben wurde. Besonderen Wert legten Verfasser und Herausgeber auf die Naturgeschichte der Vögel die hervorragend illustriert wurde. - Band 1: Théorie de la_Terre; Histoire générale des Animaux 2 Stahlstiche 5 Lithographien - Bd. 2: L'Homme; Les Quadrupèdes 26 Lithos - Bd. 3: Les Quadrupèdes 30 Lithos - Bd. 4: Les Singes; Additions aux Quadrupèdes 22 Lithos - Bände 5-8: Les Oiseaux 18 16 17 17 Lithos - Bd. 9: Introduction aux Minéraux; Époques de la Nature 6 Lithos - Bd. 10-11: Les Minéraux - Bd. 12: Expériences sur les Végétaux Arithmétique morale et Tables analytiques et Raisonnées des Matières contenues dans l'Ouvrage entier. - Die drei laut Tafelverzeichnis fehlenden Lithographien wurden offenbar gar nicht erst eingebunden. Der Widerspruch zwischen der Datierung des Vorworts 1855 und der Titelei des ersten Bandes 1853 der einzigen mit einer Jahresangabe war von uns nicht aufzuklären. Ein Hinweis auf eine zweite Auflage ist nicht zu finden möglicherweise handelt es sich aber um eine Titelauflage. - Nissen ZBI 704. Wegen Urlaub kann Ihre Bestellung / Anfrage erst nach dem 21.06.2026 bearbeitet werden. - Because of holidays your order / question can be handled only after 06/21/2026. Garnier Frères hardcover
185017623Paris: La Societe Bibliophile. Very Good. 1850. Hardcover. Handsome 9 volume set bound with brown calf spines over marbled boards. 5 spine bands with gilt lettering. Marbled endpapers & speckled page edges. No date: ca 1850. Internal hinges & text are tight & intact. Illustrated with 79 full-page color plates. Vol 1: 2 504pp. Engraved b/w frontis-portrait of Buffon. Vol 2; 4 477pp 1. Vol 3: 4 480pp. Vol 4: 4 394pp 1. Vol 5: 4 386pp 5. Vol 6: 4 425pp 5. Vol 7: 4 427pp. Vol 8: 4 459pp. Vol 9: 4 427pp. Half-title & title page precedes each volume. Would be rated near fine if not for light scattered foxing that is mostly at the beginning & end of each volume & a bumped upper front corner on vol 1. Small number label inside each front cover. DE L'HOMME MINÉRAUX OISSEAUX QUADRUPÈDES THÉORIE DE LA TERRE. Science. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 3979 pages . La Societe Bibliophile hardcover
182864552Paris: Chez Baudouin Freres Editeurs et Chez N. Delangle Editeur 1828. Hardcover. Near Fine. Complete in 34 volumes. Octavos. Consists of 28 volumes of text four supplementary volumes by Baron Cuvier and two volumes containing 180 hand-colored plates. Frontispiece portrait and two folding plates. Contemporary green morocco over marbled boards with gilt spine decoration. Text in French. Older bookplate some scattered foxing and light edgewear to some of the spines a handsome near fine set. Chez Baudouin Freres, Editeurs et Chez N. Delangle, Editeur hardcover
181213391Milano 1812. Compendiata da C.S.B.M. ad uso della gioventu italiana. Rücken defekt. Im Bund locker Kl.-8°. Pbd. Biologie unknown
183766762half title title and illustrated frontipiece 752 pages Plates 72 -148 but 91 and 92 missing this translation into German by H.J.Schaltenbrand four legged animals volume 6 text in German Published by Expedition von Büffon`s Naturgeschichte hardcover
183796508ABDüsseldorf, Stahl, 1836-1837. Bd. 5 u. 6 (in 2 Bdn.): Vierfüsser. Mit 143 (von 148) Stahlstichtafeln m. jeweils 2 Darstellungen. 2 Bll., 826 S.; 2 Bll. 924 Seiten. Marmor. Halblederbde. der Zeit m. Rückenschild. - Tafeln gut bis sehr gut erhalten. - Taf. Nr. 2 lose u. bis auf die Abbildungen beschnitten. Stellenweise etwas braunfleckig, sonst gutes Ex.
1825142438Paris : A. Eymery, Libraire, 1825. 640 S.; ohne Illustrationen Pb., ohne Schutzumschlag, Schnitt unbeschnitten (teils ungeöffnet), Fadenbindung, mit rotem, mont. Rückentitelschild
1825142450Paris : A. Eymery, Libraire, 1825. 552 S.; ohne Illustrationen Pb., ohne Schutzumschlag, Schnitt unbeschnitten (teils ungeöffnet), Fadenbindung, mit rotem, mont. Rückentitelschild
1825142448Paris : A. Eymery, Libraire, 1825. 594 S.; ohne Illustrationen Pb., ohne Schutzumschlag, Schnitt unbeschnitten (teils ungeöffnet), Fadenbindung, mit rotem, mont. Rückentitelschild
