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ref. 35799Paris Imprimerie Royale 1770-1785. 18 volumes in 18. Large 12mo 18.0 x 10.5 cm. Text with 264 engraved plates. Uniform contemporary half calf over speckled boards. Spines with five raised gilt-ornamented bands; compartments with gilt floral patterns and two morocco labels in red or brown short title and black part number. = This is the complete bird section volumes 14-31 usually found separately of Buffon's Histoire Naturelle générale et particulière published by the Imprimerie Royale from 1749 to 1804 in 44 volumes. Nissen only quotes 262 plates. The plates are after De Sève and depict the birds in their natural surroundings including nice architectural design. Some light shelfwear one spine label with some loss; some slight foxing in the text plates clean. The last two volumes published four years after volume 16 in a slightly different binding see pictures. A nice set in beautiful contemporary almost uniform bindings. Nissen IVB 160; Ronsil 413. hardcover
ref. 35547Paris 1761. Single leaf 25.1 x 18.4 cm. Copper engraving. Passe-partout size 45.8 x 33.0 cm. = Portrait of the famous French naturalist George Louis Leclerq or le Clerq Comte de Buffon 1707-1788 whose influence on popular natural history remains apparent to this day. Claude Baron made the engraving under the supervision of Jean Germain Drouais 1763-1788 the French historical painter and portraitist Baron also worked for Buffon engraving many birds and mammals for his publications. The printed surface is 20.0 x 16.1 cm. A few small marginal smudges otherwise very good. unknown
ref. 30048Paris Garnier frères 1853-1855. In 12 volumes. Very large 8vo 26.7 x 17.8 cm. Text with one engraved frontispiece one hand-coloured frontispiece one engraved portrait of Buffon and 160 hand-coloured engraved plates and maps for a total of 163 plates outside the text. Contemporary uniform dark blue half calf over pebbled boards; spines with four raised bands compartments with gilt vignettes and titles. Iridescent endpapers. All edges gilt. = A fine uniformly bound set of one of the many "Oeuvres Complètes" by this famous author mostly dealing with birds four volumes mammals three volumes and minerals three. With a preface by Marie-Jean-Pierre Flourens dated 1855. The title pages are dated 1853-1854. Heim regards this edition as the eighth important edition after Buffon's death in 1788. The frontispiece plate to Volume II "l'Homme et la Femme" is present. It is not listed in the plate index at the end of Vol. XII and seems to be missing often. Nissen states an incorrect number of plates. Apart from some foxing in the text mostly on tissue guards an attractive set. R. Heim 1952 "Buffon Les grands naturalistes Français" p. 232; Hoover 192; Nissen ZBI 704. hardcover
2009ref. I-547-898GALLIMARD 2009. Hardcover. Good. Edition 2009. Refurbished library book. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations. GALLIMARD hardcover
1787ref. 19243CB1787. erste Auflage dieser Ausgabe Brünn gedruckt bei Joseph Georg Traßler und im Verlage der Kompagnie 1787 8° 324 und 7 S. Inhaltsverzeichnis mit 38 kolorierten Kupfern Einband der Zeit mit schwarzer Rückenbeschriftung auf rotem Grund Einbandkanten leicht beschabt Einband an den unteren Ecken ein wenig bestoßen Rückdeckel an unterer Ecke mit kleiner Fehlstelle exLibris auf Vorderdeckel-Innenseite Titelseite mit Längsknick sonst altersgemäß schönes sauberes und kollationiertes Exemplar. Alle Abbildungen sind vollständig vorhanden und wohlerhalten. Abholung im Ladengeschäft in Frankfurt am Main Nordend ggü. Musterschule möglich. Das spart die Portokosten. Pickup at the store in Frankfurt am Main Nordend close to Musterschule is possible. It saves the shipping costs. unknown
2008ref. 64344New York: Rizzoli 2008. Cloth/dust jacket Quarto. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Martinet Francois-Nicolas. green cloth gilt lettering dust jacket 670 pp in illustrated slipcase Standard shipping no tracking / Priority with tracking / Custom quote for large or heavy orders. Rizzoli hardcover
ref. 41331Glasgow: William Mackenzie. Margin: 276x182 mm. Very faint finger soiling in bottom right corner otherwise in very good condition. William Mackenzie unknown
1774ref. FB640 /6AFull leather binding black title plate. Gilt floral design on the spine. The Histoire Naturelle générale et particulière avec la description du Cabinet du Roi English: Natural History General and Particular with a Description of the King's Cabinet is an encyclopaedic collection of 36 large quarto volumes written between 1749–1804 initially by the Comte de Buffon and continued in eight more volumes after his death by his colleagues led by Bernard Germain de Lacépède. The books cover what was known of the "natural sciences" at the time including what would now be called material science physics chemistry and technology as well as the natural history of animals. Georges-Louis Leclerc Comte de Buffon 7 September 1707 – 16 April 1788 was a French naturalist mathematician cosmologist and encyclopédiste. His works influenced the next two generations of naturalists including two prominent French scientists Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Georges Cuvier. Buffon published thirty-six quarto volumes of his Histoire Naturelle during his lifetime with additional volumes based on his notes and further research being published in the two decades following his death. Ernst Mayr wrote that "Truly Buffon was the father of all thought in natural history in the second half of the 18th century". Credited with being one of the first naturalists to recognize ecological succession he was later forced by the theology committee at the University of Paris to recant his theories about geological history and animal evolution because they contradicted the Biblical narrative of Creation. Buffon held the position of intendant director at the Jardin du Roi now called the Jardin des Plantes. Buffon's Histoire naturelle générale et particulière 1749–1788: in 36 volumes; an additional volume based on his notes appeared in 1789 was originally intended to cover all three "kingdoms" of nature but the Histoire naturelle ended up being limited to the animal and mineral kingdoms and the animals covered were only the birds and quadrupeds. "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 Philibert Guéneau de Montbeillard and Gabriel-Léopold Bexon along with numerous artists. Buffon's Histoire naturelle was translated into many different languages making him one of the most widely read authors of the day a rival to Montesquieu Rousseau and Voltaire. In the opening volumes of the Histoire naturelle Buffon questioned the usefulness of mathematics criticized Carl Linnaeus's taxonomical approach to natural history outlined a history of the Earth with little relation to the Biblical account and proposed a theory of reproduction that ran counter to the prevailing theory of pre-existence. The early volumes were condemned by the Faculty of Theology at the Sorbonne. Buffon published a retraction but he continued publishing the offending volumes without any change. In the course of his examination of the animal world Buffon noted that despite similar environments different regions have distinct plants and animals a concept later known as Buffon's Law. This is considered to be the first principle of biogeography. He made the suggestion that species may have both "improved" and "degenerated" after dispersing from a center of creation. In volume 14 he argued that all the world's quadrupeds had developed from an original set of just thirty-eight quadrupeds. On this basis he is sometimes considered a "transformist" and a precursor of Darwin. He also asserted that climate change may have facilitated the worldwide spread of species from their centres of origin. Still interpreting his ideas on the subject is not simple for he returned to topics many times in the course of his work. Buffon considered the similarities between humans and apes but ultimately rejected the possibility of a common descent. He debated with James Burnett Lord Monboddo on the relationship of the primates to man Monboddo insisting against Buffon on a close relationship. At one point Buffon propounded a theory that nature in the New World was inferior to that of Eurasia. He argued that the Americas were lacking in large and powerful creatures and that even the people were less virile than their European counterparts. He ascribed this inferiority to the marsh odours and dense forests of the American continent. These remarks so incensed Thomas Jefferson that he dispatched twenty soldiers to the New Hampshire woods to find a bull moose for Buffon as proof of the "stature and majesty of American quadrupeds". In Les époques de la nature 1778 Buffon discussed the origins of the solar system speculating that the planets had been created by a comet's collision with the sun. He also suggested that the Earth originated much earlier than 4004 BC the date determined by Archbishop James Ussher. Basing his figures on the cooling rate of iron tested at his Laboratory the Petit Fontenet at Montbard he calculated that the age of the earth was 75000 years. Once again his ideas were condemned by the Sorbonne and once again he issued a retraction to avoid further problems. De L'Imprimerie Royal. Paris. hardcover
ref. 1108023010.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
ref. 65458Chez Abel Ledoux 10 volumes In-8 4000pp. portrait frontispice 4 cartes depliantes nombreux tableaux et tables 1 volume de 164 planches: 450 gravures reliures demi-basane de l'epoque dos ornes et filets dores Nb-0236 unknown
ref. 65689Ve J. Renouard Libraire-Editeur Paris 1866 In-8 173pp. pagination: vi-115-282 petites rousseurs eparses couverture noire hommage autographe de l'auteur etat moyen Ats30f Rare dedicace signee par Henri Nadault de Buffon Magistrat fondateur de la Societe des Hospitaliers Sauveteurs Bretons HSB unknown
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ref. 62271Imprimerie Royale In-12 332pp. illustr. 22 planches zoologiques reliure plein veau racine de l'epoque dos a nerfs ornes mors uses aux coiffes etiquette ex-libris: Heinrich de Johann Brenner 1767 Nb-0377 Le Zebre l'Hippopotame l'Elan le Renne le Bouquetin la Gazelle le Chamois etc. unknown
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ref. 59859A Paris de l'Imprimerie Royale 1774 In-12 vi-422pp. un feuillet restaure avec manque de texte reliure plein veau racine de l'epoque dos orne a nerfs tranches marbrees Nb-0322 Theorie de la Terre - Introduction a l'histoire des Mineraux unknown
ref. 59860A Paris de l'Imprimerie Royale 1774 In-12 vi-340-45pp. illustr. 16 planches hors-texte in-fine reliure plein veau racine de l'epoque dos orne a nerfs tranches marbrees Nb-0322 Theorie de la Terre - Introduction a l'histoire des Mineraux Observations sur la nature de la platine - Experience sur la tenacite et la decomposition du fer - Experience sur la lumiere et la chaleur qu'elle peut produire - Invention des miroirs pour bruler a de grandes distances - Reflexion sur le jugement de Descartes au sujet des miroirs d'archimede - Invention d'autres miroirs - Observations sur les couleurs accidentelles et les ombres colorees etc. . unknown
ref. 59857A Paris de l'Imprimerie Royale 1776 In-12 vi-434pp. illustr. tableaux reliure plein veau racine de l'epoque dos orne a nerfs tranches marbrees Nb-0322 Memoires: Experiences sur la pesanteur du Feu et sur la duree de l'incandescence - Experiences sur la fusion des mines de Fer - Experiences sur la force du Bois - Moyen facile d'augmenter la solidite la force et la duree du Bois - Experiences sur le dessechement du Bois a l'air et sur son imbibation dans l'eau - Sur la covservation et le retablissement des forets - Sur la culture et l'exploitation des forets - etc. . unknown
ref. 59858A Paris de l'Imprimerie Royale 1778 In-12 vi-504pp. illustr. carte depliante: Carte de la Chaine des Montagnes de Langres 32 x 23 cm reliure plein veau racine de l'epoque dos orne a nerfs tranches marbrees petit manque de cuir sur la charniere inferieure du 2eme plat coiffe superieure usee Nb-0322 Les Epoques de la Nature unknown
ref. 59855A Paris de l'Imprimerie Royale 1778 In-12 v-372-44pp. illustr. grande carte depliante: La Carte des deux parties polaires du Globe 45 x 24 cm 6 planches hors-texte in-fine reliure plein veau racine de l'epoque tranches marbrees dos orne a nerfs coiffe superieure usee Nb-0322 unknown
ref. 59856A Paris de l'Imprimerie Royale 1776 In-12 vi-370-53pp. illustr. tableaux reliure plein veau racine de l'epoque dos orne a nerfs tranches marbrees Nb-0322 Memoires: Recherches sur les couches ligneuses du bois et l'aubier - Observations des effets des gelees sur les vegetaux - Recherches sur le refroidissement de la terre et des planetes - Fondements des reccherches precedentes sur la temperature des planetes unknown
ref. 7838Paris: 1788. No binding. Good. 510 x 580 mm. recent outline and wash colour light toning to centrefold with folds as issued on good thick paper otherwise in good condition. A chart of the Indian Ocean showing the declinations of the compass from George Louis Leclerc Buffon's 'Histoire Naturelle Generale et Particulaire' 1749-04. This map appears in the Minereaux volume of 1788. It shows the waters from South Africa to Borneo including Arabia Indian and South East Asia. The measurements are the work of La Perouse during his fateful voyage supplemented by those of the eminent scientist Jean-Charles Borda. 1788 unknown
1780ref. 6326Germany 1780; Circa 1780 copper engraving of the Pyrenean Desman Galemys pyrenaicus diminutive amphibious mammal related to the mole and shrew native to portions of Northern Spain and Portugal. Once widespread throughout Europe only two species of remain one in the Pyrenes as here and the other in remote regions of Russia. An original plate from an 18th c. German edition of Buffon’s Histoire Naturelle. Engraved by G.P. Trautner after the drawing by Jacques de Seve depicting the subject in its natural setting. Plate number at top II Tab. 9 Seite Sheet size 7 1/2" x 9 1/2" plate mark 6 1/4" x 8 1/4". Printed on laid paper. Hinged and matted entirely acid free with 100% rag museum board in 11" x 14" size ready for framing. Original state with no later attempts at colorization. Fine condition. An attractive print of an uncommon mammal. unknown
1780ref. 6327Germany 1780; Circa 1780 copper engraving after the drawing of Jacques de Seve of a Paca the large stub-tailed semi-aquatic mammal indigenous to tropical regions of South America once used as a food source in Brazil. The Paca is shown here in its natural setting alongside its offspring of which seldom more than one is produced at birth. An original plate from an 18th c. German edition of Buffon’s Histoire Naturelle. Plate and page numbers at top XVII Tab. 157 Seite. Sheet size 7 1/2" x 9 1/2" plate mark 6 1/4" x 8 1/4". Printed on laid paper. Hinge-mounted entirely acid free and matted with 100% rag museum board in 11" x 14" size ready for framing. Fine and handsome original condition with no later attempts at colorization. unknown
