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1800EYL-232Paris, Terrelonge, Solvet, An IX. In 8 (125 x 200) de XII-136 p., 1 f. (errata). Demi basane marbrée à petits coins de vélin, dos lisse orné de doubles filets dorés, pièce de titre de maroquin orangé, petite découpe en marge inférieure à 2 feuillets (sans atteinte au texte). Reliure de l’époque.
17991355<p>Vol. 12 Des Mineraux French Book on The History of Minerals: Mercury Zinc Platinum Cobalt 1799 BUFFON In French</p>
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
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
178848877De l' imprimerie des Bâtiments du roi | à Paris 1788 | 20 x 25.50 cm | relié
178848877à Paris: De l' imprimerie des Bâtiments du roi 1788. Fine. De l' imprimerie des Bâtiments du roi à Paris 1788 20 x 25.50 cm relié First edition of this treatise published following the four volumes whose editorial dates run from 1782 for the first volume to 1788 for the last namely the Traité de l'aimant which is therefore often missing from the series. Contemporary full red morocco binding. Spine with raised bands richly decorated. Title and volume labels in black morocco. Triple fillet frame on covers. Roulette on leading edges and board-edges. Gilt edges. Domino paper with gilt stars. Corners rubbed. Very handsome copy perfectly bound in a master binding very fresh. The Traité de l'aimant is the last work published during the author's lifetime and closes the Histoire naturelle whose edition spanned fifty years and which enjoyed success comparable to Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie. The treatise proper is followed by numerous tables of observations on the inclination of the magnetic needle with the names of travelers and navigators in the southern and northern hemispheres according to different latitudes. The treatise begins with an exposition of magnetic and electric forces. De l' imprimerie des Bâtiments du roi 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
179155251Perth: R. Morison Junior 1791. Hardbound. 8vo. 211; 181; 210 pages. Lavishly illustrated with 65 plates: 23 in first section 22 one folding in the second and 20 at the end of the Insects section. Contemporary full calf with raised bands. Name on flyleaf. FIRST EDITION. <br/><br/> R. Morison Junior hardcover books
1791DBZ1024<b>The System of Natural History written by the celebrated Buffon carefully abridged; with additional extracts from other writers. By M. de Buffon. Perth: R. Morrison 1791 <i>bound with</i> The Natural History of Insects compiled from Swammerdam Brookes Goldsmith &c. Perth: R. Morrison 1792. </b><br /><br /><b>Leather over boards. pp vol I 2 blank frontispiece i title page iii-x 211 with 16 numbered and 6 un-numbered plates; vol. II 1 title page 184 with 23 numbered plates; 1 title page 2 contents 210 with 20 numbered plates. 8.5 x 5.5 inches approx. 217mm x 136mm. </b><br /><br /><b><i>Bears the armorial bookplate of John Jeane Coney. </i></b><br /><br /><b>Later full leather binding with gilt decoration to spine and gilt tooling to edges. Binding somewhat worn cracking to hinges front hinge split to lower and upper but holding firm; partial loss of label. Front free endpaper holed to upper margin; occasional light foxing but generally pages and plates remarkably clean throughout. </b><br /><br /><b>Overall showing wear to binding but otherwise a nice clean copy.</b><br /><br /><b>International shipping rates are estimated and may incur an extra charge prior to order fulfilment. Books are despatched via Royal Mail International Tracked/Signed; please enquire for an accurate shipping quote to your country.</b><br /> R. Morrison hardcover
177561763London: Printed For T Bell. 1775. Hardcover. Very Good. Six Volume set 1775 approc 2900pps folding frontis repaired to volume 1 many plates possibility 1 plate may be missing odd spotting to text tiny hole in 1 page. Bound in full leather sl rubbed on covers and spines one corner 1 vol knocked sl affecting page corners.; Octavo . Printed For T Bell 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
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
1774FB640 /6A<p>Full leather binding black title plate. Gilt floral design on the spine. The <strong><em>Histoire Naturelle générale et particulière avec la description du Cabinet du Roi</em></strong> English: <em>Natural History General and Particular with a Description of the King's Cabinet</em> is an encyclopaedic collection of 36 large quarto volumes written between 1749–1804 initially by the Comte de Buffon and continued in eight more volumes after his death by his colleagues led by Bernard Germain de Lacépède. The books cover what was known of the "natural sciences" at the time including what would now be called material science physics chemistry and technology as well as the natural history of animals. <strong>Georges-Louis Leclerc Comte de Buffon</strong> 7 September 1707 – 16 April 1788 was a French naturalist mathematician cosmologist and encyclopédiste. His works influenced the next two generations of naturalists including two prominent French scientists Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Georges Cuvier. Buffon published thirty-six quarto volumes of his <em>Histoire Naturelle</em> during his lifetime with additional volumes based on his notes and further research being published in the two decades following his death. Ernst Mayr wrote that "Truly Buffon was the father of all thought in natural history in the second half of the 18th century". Credited with being one of the first naturalists to recognize ecological succession he was later forced by the theology committee at the University of Paris to recant his theories about geological history and animal evolution because they contradicted the Biblical narrative of Creation. Buffon held the position of <em>intendant</em> director at the Jardin du Roi now called the Jardin des Plantes. Buffon's <em>Histoire naturelle générale et particulière</em> 1749–1788: in 36 volumes; an additional volume based on his notes appeared in 1789 was originally intended to cover all three "kingdoms" of nature but the <em>Histoire naturelle</em> ended up being limited to the animal and mineral kingdoms and the animals covered were only the birds and quadrupeds. "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 Philibert Guéneau de Montbeillard and Gabriel-Léopold Bexon along with numerous artists. Buffon's <em>Histoire naturelle</em> was translated into many different languages making him one of the most widely read authors of the day a rival to Montesquieu Rousseau and Voltaire. In the opening volumes of the <em>Histoire naturelle</em> Buffon questioned the usefulness of mathematics criticized Carl Linnaeus's taxonomical approach to natural history outlined a history of the Earth with little relation to the Biblical account and proposed a theory of reproduction that ran counter to the prevailing theory of pre-existence. The early volumes were condemned by the Faculty of Theology at the Sorbonne. Buffon published a retraction but he continued publishing the offending volumes without any change. In the course of his examination of the animal world Buffon noted that despite similar environments different regions have distinct plants and animals a concept later known as Buffon's Law. This is considered to be the first principle of biogeography. He made the suggestion that species may have both "improved" and "degenerated" after dispersing from a center of creation. In volume 14 he argued that all the world's quadrupeds had developed from an original set of just thirty-eight quadrupeds. On this basis he is sometimes considered a "transformist" and a precursor of Darwin. He also asserted that climate change may have facilitated the worldwide spread of species from their centres of origin. Still interpreting his ideas on the subject is not simple for he returned to topics many times in the course of his work. Buffon considered the similarities between humans and apes but ultimately rejected the possibility of a common descent. He debated with James Burnett Lord Monboddo on the relationship of the primates to man Monboddo insisting against Buffon on a close relationship. At one point Buffon propounded a theory that nature in the New World was inferior to that of Eurasia. He argued that the Americas were lacking in large and powerful creatures and that even the people were less virile than their European counterparts. He ascribed this inferiority to the marsh odours and dense forests of the American continent. These remarks so incensed Thomas Jefferson that he dispatched twenty soldiers to the New Hampshire woods to find a bull moose for Buffon as proof of the "stature and majesty of American quadrupeds". In <em>Les époques de la nature</em> 1778 Buffon discussed the origins of the solar system speculating that the planets had been created by a comet's collision with the sun. He also suggested that the Earth originated much earlier than 4004 BC the date determined by Archbishop James Ussher. Basing his figures on the cooling rate of iron tested at his Laboratory the Petit Fontenet at Montbard he calculated that the age of the earth was 75000 years. Once again his ideas were condemned by the Sorbonne and once again he issued a retraction to avoid further problems.</p> De L'Imprimerie Royal. Paris. hardcover
1776665081776 Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1776, In-douze,370 + (liii-table des matières), pleine reliure époque, dos à cinq nerfs, coins émoussés,coiffe supérieure abimée, tranche jaspée,état conveanble,
17359457Paris, Debure l'Ainé (Imprimerie Jacques Vincent), 1735 ; in-4 ; plein veau moucheté havane, dos à nerfs décoré et doré, pièce de titre grenat, roulette dorée sur les coupes, tranches rouges (reliure de l'époque) ; XVIII, (8) (table et errata), 408, (2) pp., 20 planches en 10 feuilles dépliantes.
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
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
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
1765B7181Paris c.1765. One plate with small tear at gutter not affecting plate. Interior generally crisp and clean colours vivid. Binding: Half brown calf over marbled paper boards. Spine with 5 raised bands red morocco label in second compartment green morocco label in fourth compartment gilt rolls on bands. Notes: Edme-Louis Daubenton 12 August 1730 – 12 December 1785 was a French naturalist. Daubenton was the cousin of another French naturalist Louis Jean-Marie Daubenton. Georges-Louis Leclerc the Comte de Buffon engaged Edme-Louis Daubenton to supervise the coloured illustrations for the monumental Histoire Naturelle 1749–89. The Planches Enluminee started to appear in 1765 and finally accounted for 1008 plates all engraved by François-Nicolas Martinet 1731–1800 and all painted by hand. The Parisian publisher Panckoucke published a version without text between 1765 and 1783.<br>The Histoire Naturelle générale et particulière avec la description du Cabinet du Roi is an encyclopaedic collection of 36 large quarto volumes written between 1749 and 1789 by the Comte de Buffon. The books cover what was known of the "natural sciences" at the time including what would now be called material science physics chemistry and technology as well as the natural history of animals.<br>A de luxe edition of Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux 1771–1786 was produced by the Imprimerie royale in 10 folio and quarto volumes with 1008 engraved and hand-coloured plates executed under Buffon's personal supervision by Edme-Louis Daubenton cousin and brother-in-law of Buffon's principal collaborator Louis Jean-Marie Daubenton. The plates were originally issued in 42 cahiers each containing 24 plates and no accompanying text or titles.<br> Size: Folio 460 x 315mm Illustration: A beautifully bound collection of 100 handcoloured plates produced by Daubenton for the Comte de Buffon’s Histoire Naturelle which was issued in multiple parts between 1765 and 1783 and came to encompass over 1000 plates. The numbered plates depict birds from many parts of the world including Africa Canada Mexico France Italy Brazil China and America. The present volume represents an impressive compilation of plates originally issued across different parts the numbering not always chronological. One plate with etched caption crossed and rewritten in contemporary hand. Category: Book Natural History; Book Plate Books Colour; hardcover
1791018552Sl Padoue Sd1791. Un volume 21x29 cm con 112 tavole incise da Scattaglia 24 delle quali incise da Benard sono replicate con coloritura a mano dell'epoca. Qualche brunitura qualche rara piccola macchia un paio di strappi al margine bianco ma nel complesso incisioni in condizioni molto buone e di ottimo stampo. Le incisioni in bn sono opera di Scattaglia mentre quelle colorate sono di Benard. Le tavole sono precedute solo dalla pagina di titolo Planches des quadrupedes. Première partie con bollo di proprietà vistoso e con ex libris Polesini al retro del piatto. Il volume di quadrupedi eseguito da Daubenton faceva parte della pubblicazione Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois regnes de la nature pubblicato sia a Parigi da Pankoucke sia a Padova alla Stamperia del Seminario. Legatura coeva in mezza pelle del primo Ottocento con titolo dorato al dorso qualche spellatura e piatti con carta marmorizzata. Louis Daubenton 1716-1799 descrisse circa 200 specie di quadrupedi nei primi volumi dell'opera di Buffon con tale esattezza e precisione da servire da base allo sviluppo dell'anatomia comparata. Pietro Scattaglia 1739-1810 veneziano fu incisore ed editore di stampe nella sua Calcografia Magna. 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
