ref. 4aa147Frères Paris um 1840. Maße: ca. 155 cm x 245 cm leicht fleckig und randgebräunt. - Aus: Oeuvres completes de Buffon Te 4 - unknown
ref. 1F9243Stahl'sche Buchdruckerei Düsseldorf 1836. 826 S. mit 140 Abb. auf 70 Kupfertafeln Pbd. der Zeit etwas berieben und bestoßen/ Bibliotheksstempel auf Vorsatz. - gutes komplettes Exemplar - unknown
ref. 1d13617Joseph Georg Traßler Troppau. 1784. 393/459 S. mit 2 Frontispizen 2 Kupfertafeln und 1 statt 2 Kupferkarten sämtlich später coloriert neue Leineneinbände teils mit Wurmgang in band 1/gegen ende mit etwas Buchstabenverlust/Europakarte mittig durchgerissen und oben als fehlend bezeichnet. unknown
ref. 3i547T. Cadell and W. Davies London 1812. V 1 Blatt 518 S. mit 56 Tafeln in Stahlstich Halbledereinband mit goldgeprägtem Rückentitel etwas fleckig/ Stempel auf Vorsatz/ Exlibris auf Vorsatz. - Text: englisch/ Rücken und Bindung erneuert/ sonst gutes Exemplar = otherwise good condition unknown
ref. 6h8946Joachim Pauli Verlag Bln. 1772/1775. XXXVI/276/253/XVIII/238/318 S. mit 4 in Kupfer gestochenen Frontispizen 4 gestochenen Titelvignetten und zusammen 129 Kupfertafeln goldgeprägte original Halbledereinbände ein Textblatt u. 1 Tafel mit Ausriß/berieben und bestossen/Kapitale eingerissen und ausgebrochen/einige Kupfertafeln nachträglich von Hand coloriert/ einiges Kindergekritzel an Rändern und Text. - innen sehr gut/mit Vermehrungen aus dem Französischen übersetzt - unknown
1812ref. ZB1313331London: H. D. Symonds 1812. Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday Nov. 2 weekend sale item 338 1 pp. 13 color plates with two or three images per plate; contemporary quarter leather & marbled boards hardcover covers worn plates clean. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. London: H. D. Symonds hardcover
ref. 41529NEW YORK RIZZOLI 2008. BUFFON'S ILLUSTRATED NATURAL HISTORY GENERAL AND PARTICULAR OF BIRDS. ILLUSTRATED BY FRANCOIS-NICOLAS MARTINET. FOREWORD BY DAVID SIBLEY. FOLIO IN STURDY SLIPCASE. 670 PAGES. A MAGNIFICENT PRODUCTION. A NEAR FINE COPY. THE SLIPCASE IS DAMAGED AT THE BASE. THE BOOK WEIGHS 8.4 Kg SO POSTAGE AT COST. VERY SCARCE. NEW YORK, RIZZOLI, 2008 unknown
1789ref. 60389Paris l' Imprimerie Royale Plassan 1749 - 1789. 4to 262 x 205 mm. Uniformly bound in 32 contemporary full sprinkled calf bindings with five raised bands and richly gilt spines. Leather tome- and title-labels to all volumes. Edges of boards gilt. Light wear to extremities primarily affecting head and foot of spines corners bumped. Internally with light occassional marginal brownspotting but generally fine. With "J. Collin" Danish zoologist Jonas Collin to top margin of most front free end-papers. An overall nice set comprising the following:Histoire Naturelle Générale et Particulière 15 vols - 578 plates and 2 maps.Supplément à l'Histoire naturelle 6 vols - 141 plates and 2 maps.Histoire naturelle des Oiseaux 9 vols - 257 plates.Quadrupedes Ovipares et des Serpens 2 vols - 66 plates. A total of 1042 plates and 4 maps. Wanting the portrait. The complex collation of this work has not been accurately described by bibliographers. Nissen and Heilbrun differ in the listing of number of plates and misname the descriptions of the plates. First edition of this extensive landmark work in natural science. After his death several other volumes were published making the total number of volumes 44. Together with Diderot's Encyclopaedia this work represents the peak of book printing of the French enlightenment. Buffon was the first to sum up an entire natural history based on science instead of theology; It constitutes one of the first attempts to provide a comprehensive account of the natural world aiming at describing the entire known natural world - including plants animals and minerals - in a single work. Buffon based his work on first-hand observations and scientific analysis rather than on second-hand accounts or mythological beliefs making it a seminal work in the development of modern science. "Buffon's "Natural History General and Particular" presented for the first time a complete survey of natural history in a popular form . he was the first to present the universe as one complete whole and to find no phenomenon calling for any but a purely scientific explanation. In 1739 he was appointed Director of the Jardin du Roi now Jardin des Plantes. It would appear that the 'Natural History germinated in the preparation of a catalogue of the royal collection. Buffon then enlarged its scope to Aristotelian or Plinian proportions and finally transformed it into a conspectus of nature of a breadth and depth previously unknown". … he was the first to present the universe as one complete whole and to find no phenomenon calling for any but a purely scientific explanation." PMM. Buffon's work had a significant impact upon the field of natural history and influenced many other scientists including Charles Darwin; In a part of the work "Des Epoqeus de la Nature" Supplement vol. V 1778 present here Buffon attacked several Christian doctrines on natural science. He saw man as a part of the animal world he objected to earth being only 6000 years old and he dismissed a rigid classification system thus paving the way for Darwin's thoughts a century later:"Georges Buffon set forth his general views on species classification in the first volume of his Histoire Naturelle. Buffon objected to the so-called "artificial" classifications of Andrea Cesalpino and Carolus Linnaeus stating that in nature the chain of life has small gradations from one type to another and that the discontinuous categories are all artificially constructed by mankind. Buffon suggested that all organic species may have descended form a small number of primordial types; this is an evolution predominantly from more perfect to less perfect forms." Parkinson Breakthroughs. "Buffon's work is of exceptional importance because of its diversity richness originality and influence. Buffon was among the first to create an autonomous science free of any theological influence. He emphasized the importance of natural history and the great length of geological time. He envisioned the nature of science and understood the roles of paleontology zoological geography and animal psychology. He realised both the necessity of transformism and its difficulties. Although his cosmogony was inadequate and his theory of animal reproduction was weak and although he did not understand the problem of classification he did establish the intellectual framework within which most naturalists up to Darwin worked." DSB From the library of Danish zoologist Jonas Collin 1840-1905 who issued a new edition of Kjærbølling's "The Birds of Scandinavia" in 1875-1877 See Anker 251 - a work most likely inspired by his knowledge from his i.e. the present copy of Buffon's "Histoire Naturelle".The 'Histoire Générale' was widely reprinted and translated. Sometimes only individual sections were produced other times the complete work appeared. PMM 198.Nissen 672.Brunet I 376.Dibner 193.Sparrow p. 23.Anker 6. hardcover
1825ref. 81174Paris: A. Eymery 1825. Fine. A. Eymery Paris 1825 -1828 13.50 x 21 cm longueur totale de la série 103 cm 26 volumes reliés Complete new edition of Buffon's works published in Paris by Eymery between 1825 and 1828 according to the arrangement established by the Comte de Lacépède and completed by the supplementary volume issued in 1828. A handsome complete set in 26 bound volumes 13.5 × 21 cm; total shelf length: 103 cm illustrated with 245 plates: Buffon's portrait engraved by Devéria as the frontispiece 216 hand-coloured plates - some heightened with gold - including 91 devoted to mammals and 126 to birds 13 plates in black and 4 folding maps. Most of the coloured plates were executed by Jean-Gabriel Prêtre the animal painter successively attached to Empress Joséphine's menagerie and to the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. Contemporary full glazed calf spines with raised bands decorated in blind with gilt-point mosaics gilt rolls at head and foot twin blond calf lettering-pieces; sides with a large central blind-stamped medallion within a matching blind-tooled border. Spines with some fading and small losses to the upper spine-ends of eight volumes vols. 1 5 9 11 23 and 24 tear to the upper joint and lower spine-end of vol. 26. Paper generally fresh occasional scattered foxing; the majority of the plates remarkably fresh a few browned in vols. 3 4 5 and 10; tear to p. 63 in vol. 11. Armorial bookplate of the library of the Comte Chevreau d'Antraigues. Interrupted by Buffon's death in 1788 the vast undertaking of the Histoire naturelle found its natural continuation in Étienne de Lacépède. Called upon during the final years of Buffon's life to carry forward the unfinished sections he successively published the volumes devoted to oviparous quadrupeds and serpents followed by those on fishes and cetaceans before undertaking a new arrangement of the entire work. Begun under his supervision this edition continued after his death in October 1825 concluding with the publication of the supplementary volume in 1828. Its illustration owes much to Jean-Gabriel Prêtre one of the foremost animal painters of his generation. Trained in Geneva before joining Empress Joséphine's menagerie at Malmaison and later the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle he devoted much of his career to depicting newly described species with remarkable accuracy; several still bear his name today. The present copy comes from the library of the Comte Chevreau d'Antraigues as evidenced by its armorial bookplate a recognised provenance on the French antiquarian book market where a number of books from the same library have appeared over the years. One of the finest editions of Buffon's Histoire naturelle bringing together for the first time in a coherent and uniform set the work as finally arranged by Lacépède. A. Eymery hardcover
1835ref. 264591835. Paris chez E.-L.-C. Mauprivez 1835. 6 tomes relis en trois forts vol. 1 vol. d'Atlas au format in-4 293 x 193 mm de 1 f. bl. 2 ff. n.fol. x - 406 pp. ; 2 ff. n.fol. 425 pp. et 1 f. bl. ; 1 f. bl. 2 ff. n.fol. et 452 pp. ; 2 ff. n.fol. 416 pp. et 1 f. bl. ; 2 ff. n.fol. 422 pp. et 1 f. bl. ; 2 ff. n.fol. 649 pp. 1 f. n.fol. et 1 f. bl. ; 163 planches et 1 f. bl. Reliures uniformes de l'poque de demi-basane glace olive dos lisses orns de larges roulettes dores larges fleurons romantiques froid titre dor tomaison dore tranches mouchetes. Ensemble complet des 6 tomes de texte le constituant ici relis en 3 volumes ainsi que de son Atlas comportant 163 fines planches graves en noir d'aprÂs Victor Adam dont portrait de l'auteur et frontispice. ''Lequel possdait une imagination extraordinaire et les connaissances techniques que peut fournir l'enseignement classique. Comme beaucoup de peintres Victor Adam s'essaya dÂs 1824 la lithographie. DÂs lors l'artiste prit un tel got cette expression qu'il cessa de peindre.'' in Bnzit. Bnzit I Dictionnaire des peintres p. 32 - Osterwalder I Dictionnaire des illustrateurs p. 33. Angles coupes et coiffes lims. Dos passs pouvant en outre prsenter quelques frottements. Papier parfois lgÂrement oxyd. Ingales mais claires rousseurs dans les corps d'ouvrages. Quelques planches brunies. Lesquelles peuvent en outre prsenter des rousseurs rarement prononces. Du reste ensemble en bonne condition. b42961 unknown
1735ref. 74286Paris & Genève Geneva: Chez Debure l'aînéChez les héritiers Cramer et Frères Philibert 1735. Fine. Chez Debure l'aîné Chez les héritiers Cramer et Frères Philibert Paris & Genève Geneva 1735 et 1744 19 x 25 cm 2 ouvrages reliés en un volume First edition of the French translation of these two texts by Stephen Hales. The translation of the first work originally entitled Vegetable Staticks published in 1727 is the first text published by Buffon. The translation of the second work originally issued under the title Haemastaticks in 1733 is by François Boissier de Sauvages. Our copy is complete with its 20 engraved figures on 10 folding plates for the first text and its folding plate at the end for the second. Contemporary full speckled blond sheep spine in five raised bands richly decorated with gilt compartments rolls and fleurons with a havana morocco title label marbled endpapers all edges speckled red. Headcap and two corners skilfully restored. A few leaves slightly browned. Rare French first editions of these two texts by Hales founder of modern experimental physiology. The Statique des végétaux describes one hundred and twenty-four experiments on plant physiology. Buffon precedes it with an important préface du traducteur in which he praises not only Hales Je ne connais rien de mieux dans son genre et le genre par lui-même est excellent. but above all scientific experiment emblematic of the emergence of modern science: Amassons-donc toujours des expériences et éloignons nous s'il est possible de tout esprit de système du moins jusqu'à ce que nous soyons instruits . c'est cette méthode que mon auteur a suivie ; c'est celle du grand Newton ; c'est celle que Messieurs de Verulam Galilée Boyle Sthall Stahl ont recommandée et embrassée c'est celle que l'Académie des Sciences s'est fait une loi d'adopter . The plates executed with great finesse depict the machines devised notably his famous water apparatus and the processes used by Hales to demonstrate the circulation of sap and the production of gases in the plants he studied. The second treatise following the research of William Harvey and Marcello Malpighi deals with blood circulation. It is in this work that Hales recounts his experiment on arterial pressure using one of his inventions a precursor of the sphygmomanometer. Chez Debure l'aînéChez les héritiers Cramer et Frères Philibert hardcover
ref. 272025Rizzoli 2016. folio black heavy card boards white printed lettering on spine printed stripes on cover patterned eps 349 pp illust Near Fine v. slight bruising to board corners & top edge in d/w VG slight chafing to cover slight chipping to edges one 7 mm closed tear in front cover lower edge Rizzoli 2016 hardcover
1970ref. 239841970. GenÂve Edito s.d. circa 1970. Un vol. au format in-folio 387 x 292 mm de 1 f. de faux-titre 1 page de titre 1 f. de Table 1 f. de ddicace Dora Maar sur double-page 40 planches fol. 1 planche sur double-page n.fol. et 1 f. de colophon en ff. sous chemise rabats remplis titre et tui-chemise cartonn dos lisse de demi-basane havane titre dor en long. Fac-simil de l'dition Mariani de 1942. Un des exemplaires numrots du tirage sur papier bouffant des Papeteries de Casteljoux. L'ouvrage recÂle outre l'ensemble des illustrations qu'il se doit de contenir une suite desdites compositions prsente sous chemise titre et illustre. ''Curieuse publication pour l'tude de la maniÂre de graver d'un peintre moderne trÂs estim''. in Carteret. Cramer 84 - Carteret IV Le Trsor du bibliophile / Illustrs modernes p. 85 pour l'dition de 1942. Infimes altrations affectant les coiffes de la chemise. Etui prsentant quelques tches et abrasions. Du reste trÂs belle condition. b42961 unknown
ref. 22752Paris Thodore LefÂvre s.d. circa 1880. Un fort vol. au format pt in-4 248 x 157 mm de 1 f. bl. 2 ff. 1 frontispice n.fol. viii - 436 pp. et 1 f. Reliure de l'poque de demi-chagrin maroquin cerise filets gras et maigres froid encadrant les plats dos nerfs orn de filets gras froid caissons d'encadrement gras froid doubles caissons et doubles caissons styliss dors filets et filets en pointills dors titre dor tranches dores. Exemplaire - sous agrable reliure du temps - agrment de planches sous serpente hors-texte ainsi que de nombreuses figures. ''Nous avons ici voulu complter Buffon. Il avait donn l'histoire des mammifÂres et des oiseaux nous avons ajout celle des poissons et des insectes.'' Angles lims. TrÂs lgÂres marques d'usage affectant par ailleurs la reliure. Quelques rares feuillets pourvus de rousseurs. Du reste trÂs belle condition. b42961 unknown
ref. 33467NEW YORK RIZZOLI 2008. BUFFON'S ILLUSTRATED NATURAL HISTORY GENERAL AND PARTICULAR OF BIRDS. ILLUSTRATED BY FRANCOIS-NICOLAS MARTINET. FOREWORD BY DAVID SIBLEY. FOLIO IN STURDY SLIPCASE. 670 PAGES. A MAGNIFICENT PRODUCTION. A VERY FINE COPY CLEARLY UNUSED WITH BOOKPLATE OF PREVIOUS OWNER. THE BOOK WEIGHS 8.4 Kg SO POSTAGE AT COST. VERY SCARCE. NEW YORK, RIZZOLI, 2008 unknown
1761ref. 39518Paris Imprimerie Royale 1761. 4to. Contemporary full mottled calf spine and boards worn. 4 376 pp. With engraved vignette on titlepage and 41 full-page engraved plates many folding. Plate 16 torn. Volume 9 in the first edition. Plates describing lions tigers leopards hyenas &c. Buffon is best remembered for his great work Histoire naturelle générale et particulière 1749-788: in 35 volumes 9 additional volumes published after his death by Lacépède. It included everything known about the natural world up until that date. "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. His Histoire was translated into many different languages making him one of the most widely read authors of the day equaling Rousseau and Voltaire. hardcover
1827ref. 42163Paris Baudouin Frères et N. Delangle 1827-28. Bound in 34 contemp. uniform hcalf richly gilt spines. Various wear to spine-ends a few vols. with small tears to hinges. Edges rubbed. Engraved portrait 2 folded maps to vol. I 3 plates to vol. 11 Carte polaires to vol. 5 and 192 engraved and handcoloured plates. Oiseaux 118 Mammifères 74. Plates with tissue-guards and in general fine and clean. Textvolumes with some foxing and scattered brownspots throughout. unknown
1860ref. 138372London: Thomas Kelly 1860. 1st edition. Very Good. quarto. full leather 682 viii 462 viiipp. frontis. engravings. Inc. over 100 copper-plate illustrations none coloured. Leather binding rather worn & hinges tender broken in volume 1. Occasional foxing in text o/w a very good copy. Would re-bind very nicely Thomas Kelly hardcover
1788ref. 48877à 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
1957ref. 44458Bourg-la-Reine: Aux dépens d'un artiste 1957. Fine. Aux dépens d'un artiste Bourg-la-Reine 1957 25.50 x 32.50 cm en feuilles sous chemise et étui. Edition illustrated with 21 original engravings by Tavy Notton one of 15 numbered copies on Japan super nacré deluxe copy after 6 others differently enhanced. Our copy as stipulated in the justification page is complete with the original signed drawing by Tavy Notton with its two duplicate suites on Auvergne and Rives blanc with the silk printing of 3 simple plates. However the copperplate and the silk printing of 3 double plates are lacking in our work. Tavy Notton's illustrations thus comprise: 1 frontispiece in black 20 hors-texte in black of which 6 are double-page. Very handsome copy. Aux dépens d'un artiste unknown
1795ref. 64078Lausanne. 1795. Highly decorative engraving of the exotic bird by Buffon a French naturalist mathematician biologist cosmologist and author. Le Comte de Buffon was struck by the diversity of life and was not content with existing explanations of the natural world. 100 years before Darwin Buffon in his Histoire Naturelle a 44 volume encyclopedia describing everything known about the natural world was considering common ancestry of man and apes. Histoire naturelle : générale et particulière Oiseaux. Copper engraving. Hand coloured. Mounted size: 380 x 320 mm Fine condition. unknown
1795ref. 64070Lausanne. 1795. Highly decorative engraving of the exotic bird by Buffon a French naturalist mathematician biologist cosmologist and author. Le Comte de Buffon was struck by the diversity of life and was not content with existing explanations of the natural world. 100 years before Darwin Buffon in his Histoire Naturelle a 44 volume encyclopedia describing everything known about the natural world was considering common ancestry of man and apes. Histoire naturelle : générale et particulière Oiseaux. Size: 210 x 180 mm. Copper engraving. Hand coloured. Mounted size: 380 x 320 mm Fine condition. unknown
1795ref. 64067Lausanne. 1795. Highly decorative engraving of the exotic bird by Buffon a French naturalist mathematician biologist cosmologist and author. Le Comte de Buffon was struck by the diversity of life and was not content with existing explanations of the natural world. 100 years before Darwin Buffon in his Histoire Naturelle a 44 volume encyclopedia describing everything known about the natural world was considering common ancestry of man and apes. Histoire naturelle : générale et particulière Oiseaux. Copper engraving. Hand coloured. Mounted size: 380 x 320 mm Fine condition. unknown
1795ref. 65046Lausanne. 1795. Highly decorative engraving by Buffon a French naturalist mathematician biologist cosmologist and author. Le Comte de Buffon was struck by the diversity of life and was not content with existing explanations of the natural world. 100 years before Darwin Buffon in his Histoire Naturelle a 44 volume encyclopedia describing everything known about the natural world was considering common ancestry of man and apes. Histoire naturelle : générale et particulière Oiseaux. Size: 257 x 205 mm. Copper engraving. Hand coloured. Fine condition. unknown
1795ref. 65054Lausanne. 1795. Highly decorative engraving by Buffon a French naturalist mathematician biologist cosmologist and author. Le Comte de Buffon was struck by the diversity of life and was not content with existing explanations of the natural world. 100 years before Darwin Buffon in his Histoire Naturelle a 44 volume encyclopedia describing everything known about the natural world was considering common ancestry of man and apes. Histoire naturelle : générale et particulière Oiseaux. Size: 257 x 205 mm. Copper engraving. Hand coloured. Fine condition. unknown
