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BUFFON. HISTOIRE NATURELLE GENERALE ET PARTICULIERE AVEC LA DESCRIPTION DU CABINET DU ROY. Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1770-1789. 30 volumes in-4°, marbled calf, triple gilt fillet on the boards, spine with ornamented nerves, (period binding). "Natural History, unquestionably, belongs to the Age of Enlightenment .... Buffon also reveals himself as a precursor; he sheds light with penetrating views on the new avenues in which science after him will engage: Ecology, Ethology, Biogeography, Paleontology, Comparative Anatomy, Transformism. His ideas on man and on the human species make him an astonishingly modern mind. (In French in the text n°152). The 30 volumes are composed as follows: - Birds. 9 volumes, 1770-1783. 262 plates, 1 of which was mistakenly placed in volume 4 of the minerals. - Minerals. 5 volumes. 1783-1788. Without the 8 maps, the last containing the treatise on the magnet. - Snakes. 2 volumes. 1788-1789. 63 plates and 2 large folding tables. - Quadrupeds. 8 volumes. 1777-1789. 439 plates including 2 folding and 1 folding table. - Natural History. 6 volumes. 1774-1778. 1 portrait, 1 frontispiece and 42 plates including 4 maps. The illustration is thus composed in total for this copy of 806 BEAUTIFUL GRAVE PLATES, ONE PORTRAIT, ONE FRONTISPICE, 4 MAPS AND 3 FOLLOWING TABLES. Scattered foxing and light rings, several plates and signatures browned, volume 3 of the minerals and volume 6 of the Natural History show heavy spotting. Joints cracked on some volumes, some cappings damaged.
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BUFFON. HISTOIRE NATURELLE GENERALE ET PARTICULIERE AVEC LA DESCRIPTION DU CABINET DU ROY. Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1770-1789. 30 volumes in-4°, marbled calf, triple gilt fillet on the boards, spine with ornamented nerves, (period binding). "Natural History, unquestionably, belongs to the Age of Enlightenment .... Buffon also reveals himself as a precursor; he sheds light with penetrating views on the new avenues in which science after him will engage: Ecology, Ethology, Biogeography, Paleontology, Comparative Anatomy, Transformism. His ideas on man and on the human species make him an astonishingly modern mind. (In French in the text n°152). The 30 volumes are composed as follows: - Birds. 9 volumes, 1770-1783. 262 plates, 1 of which was mistakenly placed in volume 4 of the minerals. - Minerals. 5 volumes. 1783-1788. Without the 8 maps, the last containing the treatise on the magnet. - Snakes. 2 volumes. 1788-1789. 63 plates and 2 large folding tables. - Quadrupeds. 8 volumes. 1777-1789. 439 plates including 2 folding and 1 folding table. - Natural History. 6 volumes. 1774-1778. 1 portrait, 1 frontispiece and 42 plates including 4 maps. The illustration is thus composed in total for this copy of 806 BEAUTIFUL GRAVE PLATES, ONE PORTRAIT, ONE FRONTISPICE, 4 MAPS AND 3 FOLLOWING TABLES. Scattered foxing and light rings, several plates and signatures browned, volume 3 of the minerals and volume 6 of the Natural History show heavy spotting. Joints cracked on some volumes, some cappings damaged.
