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17706669Paris 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
1785323831785. This print comes from the monumental work "Histoire Naturelle générale et particulière" Natural History General and Particular by the famous French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc Comte de Buffon. Published circa 1782 original copper engraving with hand-colouring. unknown
17706661Paris 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
17704570Paris 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
17706653Paris 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
17704891Paris 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
17706643Paris 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
17706206Paris 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
17704418Paris 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
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
17706639Paris 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
17706662Paris 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
17706642Paris 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
17704890Paris 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
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
17706656Paris 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
179565054Lausanne. 1795. Highly decorative engraving 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: 257 x 205 mm. Copper engraving. Hand coloured. Fine condition. unknown
17706660Paris 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
179565046Lausanne. 1795. Highly decorative engraving 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: 257 x 205 mm. Copper engraving. Hand coloured. Fine condition. unknown
17704412Paris 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
1785211531785 Paris, De l'Imprimerie Royale, 1785, 2 tomes en 1 volume in-12 de (4)-234 pp.- (1) feuillet blanc - (4)-260 pp., reliure de l'époque de demi-veau brun, dos lisse orné de palettes à croisillons dorés, et fers dorés, pièce de titre de maroquin rouge, bon exemplaire.
1785R300111905Imp. Royale. 1785. In-12. Relié plein cuir. Etat d'usage, Coins frottés, Dos satisfaisant, Quelques rousseurs. 234 pages - 6 planches en noir et blanc hors texte, collationnées. Tranches roses. 2 pièces de titre. Titre, tomaison et motifs dorés. Coiffes très légèrement frottées. 3 photos disponibles.. . . . Classification Dewey : 840.05-XVIII ème siècle
17511609070017Hambourg i.e. Hamburg 1751-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 5 volume set. 9 parts bound as 5. Includes 2 additional works bound also in "Lettres d'un Philosophe a un docteur de Sorbonne sur les explications de M. de Buffon" by Duhamel 1754; "Reflexions sur le Systeme de Generation De M. De Buffon" by Albrecht von Haller. Collated: 2 127 1 50; 2 66 2 66 2; 2 31 1 96 69 1; 2 78 2 92; 2 185 1; 238 2; 2 238 2; 2 258 2; 2 276 2 138 3 67 4 12mo. Bound in full contemporary calf. Gilt stamping to spines. Some of the hinges cracked starting. All edges red. Marbled end pages. Pages clean and unmarked. Sabin 41054. Barbier II col. 1222; Cobres p. 210. Lignac's letters written to an anonymous American with the help of Bouguer was an attempt to refute Buffon and Condillac. Lignac's identified Buffon's attempts to subject natural phenomena to observation and experiment divorced from the literal biblical interpretation and provided an early criticism of the new scientific thinking. "Lignac's criticism was essentially that Buffon "contradicts Genesis in everything" ruins religion and drives God out of natural history." See Roger Jacques "Buffon A Life in Natural History" p. 192. The relevance of this work today is in the changes and challenges facing the French Academy as France entered into the modern era. This is an oversized or heavy book that requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. Hambourg [i.e. Hamburg] hardcover
17706644Paris 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
17706638Paris l: Imprimerie Royale 1770-86. Engraved plate with original hand-colour approx 26 x 21 cms from Histoire Naturelle de Oiseaux. Print Imprimerie Royale unknown
