1781 BIRDS Art Buffon Natural SCIENCE Illustrated Flamingo Seagull Pelican

1781 BIRDS Art Buffon Natural SCIENCE Illustrated Flamingo Seagull Pelican

“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 eighth volume from ‘Birds’ contains 38 impressive illustrations including views of flamingoes, plover, terns, waterthrush, moorhens, coots, pelicans, herons, seagulls, and many others!

Item number: #22035

Price: $499

BUFFON, Georges Louis Lecrec

Oeuvres complètes

Paris : Imprimerie Royale, 1781.

Details:

• Collation:
  • [2], viii, 498, xlii
  • 38 engravings
• Provenance: Armorial Bookplate – H. Trouchin
  • Motto: SURSUM CORDA
• Language: French
• Binding: Leather; tight and secure
• Size: ~10.25in X 8in (26cm x 20cm)

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