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[BUFFON, INTENDANT DU JARDIN DU ROI (Georges-Louis LECLERC, comte de), SONNINI DE MANONCOURT (Charles-Nicolas-Sigisbert). Natural history, general and particular. New edition, accompanied by Notes, and in which the Supplements are inserted in the first text, in their proper place. The natural history of the Quadrupeds and Birds discovered since Buffon's death, that of the Reptiles, Fishes, Insects and Worms, and finally the history of the Plants which this great Naturalist did not have the time to deal with, have been added. Paris, Imprimerie Dufart, year VIII (1800); in-8, 119 volumes out of 127 of about 450 pp. bound in half brown calf, spines smoothly decorated, edges painted in yellow. Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon (1707-1788) began his career by translating Newton. In 1738, during a session at the Academy, he made an enemy in the person of Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau. The king appointed him intendant at the King's Garden (Jardin des Plantes) in 1739. Finally established, he devoted himself to Natural History, surrounding himself with the best scientists of his time. Charles-Nicolas-Sigisbert Sonnini de Manoncourt was a French naturalist, born in 1751 in Lunéville and died in 1812 in Paris. He studied in Lorraine at Pont-à-Mousson, when Lorraine became French. He became a lawyer at the court of Nancy before leaving to discover Guyana and Peru. Buffon then took him as his secretary and put him in charge of foreign ornithology. Sonnini then left to travel in Greece and Turkey. Coming back from his travels, he settles in his lands in Manoncourt where he cultivates his land himself and participates in the improvement of agriculture in Meurthe, Meuse and in Aisne. During the Revolution, he was appointed justice of the peace in Nancy, but he was arrested under the Terror. He leaves Lorraine for Paris where he directs the edition of Buffon to which he adds the additions of Buffon, he integrates Lacépède and participates in the drafting of the animals and ornithology. Contents: first part: Theory of the Earth, followed by the natural history of animals and quadrupeds, natural history of cetaceans and insects, fish, reptiles, molluscs, birds and plants. Our collection is incomplete with 8 volumes, but the plates are present. This is the most complete and highly regarded early edition of Buffon. One of the biggest projects of the bookshop after the edition of the encyclopedia. All 119 volumes.
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[BUFFON, INTENDANT DU JARDIN DU ROI (Georges-Louis LECLERC, comte de), SONNINI DE MANONCOURT (Charles-Nicolas-Sigisbert). Natural history, general and particular. New edition, accompanied by Notes, and in which the Supplements are inserted in the first text, in their proper place. The natural history of the Quadrupeds and Birds discovered since Buffon's death, that of the Reptiles, Fishes, Insects and Worms, and finally the history of the Plants which this great Naturalist did not have the time to deal with, have been added. Paris, Imprimerie Dufart, year VIII (1800); in-8, 119 volumes out of 127 of about 450 pp. bound in half brown calf, spines smoothly decorated, edges painted in yellow. Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon (1707-1788) began his career by translating Newton. In 1738, during a session at the Academy, he made an enemy in the person of Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau. The king appointed him intendant at the King's Garden (Jardin des Plantes) in 1739. Finally established, he devoted himself to Natural History, surrounding himself with the best scientists of his time. Charles-Nicolas-Sigisbert Sonnini de Manoncourt was a French naturalist, born in 1751 in Lunéville and died in 1812 in Paris. He studied in Lorraine at Pont-à-Mousson, when Lorraine became French. He became a lawyer at the court of Nancy before leaving to discover Guyana and Peru. Buffon then took him as his secretary and put him in charge of foreign ornithology. Sonnini then left to travel in Greece and Turkey. Coming back from his travels, he settles in his lands in Manoncourt where he cultivates his land himself and participates in the improvement of agriculture in Meurthe, Meuse and in Aisne. During the Revolution, he was appointed justice of the peace in Nancy, but he was arrested under the Terror. He leaves Lorraine for Paris where he directs the edition of Buffon to which he adds the additions of Buffon, he integrates Lacépède and participates in the drafting of the animals and ornithology. Contents: first part: Theory of the Earth, followed by the natural history of animals and quadrupeds, natural history of cetaceans and insects, fish, reptiles, molluscs, birds and plants. Our collection is incomplete with 8 volumes, but the plates are present. This is the most complete and highly regarded early edition of Buffon. One of the biggest projects of the bookshop after the edition of the encyclopedia. All 119 volumes.
