1769 Buffon Illustrated DOGS Cats Deer Angora Sheep Goats Animals Natural History

1769 Buffon Illustrated DOGS Cats Deer Angora Sheep Goats Animals Natural History

 

“Virtually all the well-known writers of the Enlightenment were ‘Buffonians’”

― Ernst Mayer

 

The monumental work by Comte de Buffon, “Histoire Naturelle,” was fascinating 18^th-century collection of articles and encyclopedia entries on material sciences, physics, chemistry, technology, as well as the history of animals. Buffon wrote the volumes with the intent of addressing all-natural history, but after realizing the grandeur of the work, he focused on the individual orders of living things. The DSB mentions that

“Buffon’s order is formed by a philosophical bias rather than by science.”

 

This 1769 volume includes 44 full-page engravings of species of deer, cats, dogs, Angora goats, sheep, and many others!

 

Item number: #13390

Price: $499

 

BUFFON, Georges Louis Lecrec

 

Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière. Tome Septieme.

 

A Paris : Chez Panckoucke, A Liège, chez Plomteux, 1769.

 

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages;
  • [4], 354
  • 44 engraved plates
• Language: French
• Binding: Hardcover; tight & secure
• Size: ~6.75in X 4.25in (17cm x 10.5cm)

 

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