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Buffon's Natural History of the Globe and of Man; Beasts Birds Fishes Reptiles and Insects. From the Writings of Buffon Cuvier Lacepede and other eminent Naturalists; to which are added Elements of Botany. Corrected and enlarged by John Wright F

1831réf. S65766London; Dublin; Glasgow: Printed for Thomas Tegg J. Cumming R. Griffin 1831. vi 448; 396; 509; 500 c. 400 engravings 4 vignettes. . HB. 4 vols 12mo 178�110 mm publisher's orig. boards printed paper labels to spines spines worn with splitting and some loss to paper covers; the fourth volume is split. Internally clean and bright with illustrations well preserved. An unusal survival in the original publisher's binding. Wright's work represents a significant early nineteenth-century English adaptation of Buffon's celebrated natural history. Rather than simply reprinting the original text Wright sought to modernise and expand Buffon's work for a contemporary British readership incorporating material from leading naturalists of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries particularly Georges Cuvier and Bernard Germain de Lac�p�de. The volume also includes an anonymous introductory treatise on botany reflecting the growing importance of botanical science within natural history.Richly illustrated throughout the work contains more than 400 charming wood-engraved illustrations most of them executed by the noted artist William Harvey together with four vignette engravings by J. Thompson after Harvey's designs. These extensive illustrations greatly enhanced the accessibility and appeal of the text providing visual representations of the animals for a broad reading public.As a publication Wright's edition is both attractive and historically significant. It demonstrates the enduring influence of Buffon's eighteenth-century natural history while revealing how his ideas were being reassessed and supplemented in light of advances in zoology and comparative anatomy. The botanical section offers a concise overview of contemporary plant science discussing the structure and functions of roots stems leaves flowers fruits and seeds as well as plant nutrition germination and classification. Particularly noteworthy is its treatment of both the Linnaean system and the emerging Natural System of classification illustrating the transition in botanical thought during the early nineteenth century. As such the work stands as an important document of the period's efforts to reconcile classical natural history with the rapidly developing scientific knowledge of the modern age. Printed for Thomas Tegg, J. Cumming, R. Griffin hardcover

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Count de la Cepede [Bernard Germain Etienne de La Ville sur Illon]; Georges Louis Leclerc Comte de BuffonBiblio.com

4 Vols The Natural History of Oviparous Quadrupeds and Serpents

1802réf. 1023H17Edinburgh; London: Alex. Smellie; T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies; W. Creech 1802 . First edition. Leather. Very Good. 8.5" by 5". None Stated. The first English edition of Lacepede"s influential continuation of Buffon in four illustrated volumes devoted to reptiles and amphibians illustrated with forty-seven copper-plate engravings. In uniform half calf bindings with marbled paper boards rebacked with modern calf. The first English edition and first English translation of Lacepede"s Histoire naturelle des quadrupedes ovipares et des serpens originally published in French in 1788-1789. The edition was issued with forty-eight copper-engraved plates depicting reptiles and amphibians. This copy contains forty-seven plates with plate 6 to volume II not bound in. Collated. Translated by Robert Kerr and issued as volumes XIX-XXII of Buffon"s Natural History. A comprehensive four-volume study of reptiles and amphibians arranged and published from the papers and collections of the Comte de Buffon. Bernard Germain de Lacepede 1756-1825 was a French naturalist zoologist and politician who continued Buffon"s monumental Histoire naturelle. He later served as a professor at the Museum national d"Histoire naturelle. A substantial early English contribution to herpetology bringing Lacepede"s influential continuation of Buffon to a wider English readership. In uniform half calf bindings with marbled paper boards rebacked with modern calf. Externally generally smart. Light rubbing and bumping to the extremities with scuffing and surface loss to the marbled paper boards heavier to the edges and corners. Internally generally firmly bound. Bindings tight following rebacking volumes resistant to lying flat. Leaves frequently uncut and unevenly trimmed. Pages generally bright if age-toned with scattered spotting soiling and occasional marginal marks more pronounced to first and final few leaves. Early ownership inscriptions to the heads of the title pages dated 1823. Tide marking to upper margins of the odd gathering in vols III and IV frequently to plates. Closed tear to margin and gutter of b4 if vol II slightly affecting text. Very Good Alex. Smellie; T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies; W. Creech hardcover

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Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon; William Smellie [Trans]Biblio.com

8 Vols Natural History General and Particular

1780réf. 1024H28Edinburgh: William Creech 1780 . Leather. Good. 8.5 by 5. None Stated. The extensively illustrated eight-volume translation of Buffon"s influential Enlightenment survey of the natural world. In contemporary uniform full calf bindings. Volume II is supplied from another set bound in quarter calf with paper-covered boards and lacks its front board. The first edition of Smellie"s translation. Extensively illustrated with over two-hundred and fifty engraved copper plates depicting domestic and exotic animals comparative anatomy and natural phenomena including two folding maps to volume I. Histoire naturelle générale et particulière was originally published in French between 1749 and 1789 ultimately extending to thirty-six quarto volumes issued during Buffon"s lifetime with additional posthumous volumes continuing the series. Buffon"s ambitious survey of the natural world encompassing the formation and history of the Earth geography geology animal physiology the natural history of humanity and an extensive account of quadrupeds. Georges-Louis Leclerc Comte de Buffon 1707-1788 was a French naturalist mathematician and cosmologist. William Smellie 1740-1795 was a Scottish printer naturalist and antiquary best known as the principal compiler and editor of the first edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. One of the most ambitious and influential attempts to survey the natural world produced during the Enlightenment. Volumes I and IIIVIII in contemporary uniform full calf bindings with light rubbing to the boards spines and extremities. Volume II is supplied from another set and is considerably more worn bound in quarter calf with paper-covered boards; the front board is lacking with heavy rubbing and substantial loss to the remaining binding. With ownership inscriptions to the heads of the title pages and rectos of the initial blanks throughout. Further contemporary ink inscriptions dated 1826 to the front free endpapers of Volumes IV and V. Armorial bookplate of Rowland Hunt to the front pastedown of Volume I. Slight damp staining to the upper portion of the rear pastedown of Volume VIII. Internally generally firmly bound. Volume II lacks all preliminary matter and text through page 13 as well as pages 394-413 with evidence of their forcible removal at the gutter. The first surviving leaf page 13 is worn and bears an ink ownership inscription and institutional stamp. Pages generally bright and clean if lightly age toned with occasional light spotting marks and marginal wear. Slight tidemarks to the margins of the final plates in Volume III. Dampstaining to the upper margins of plates CCXCIII-CCXCIV in Volume VIII. Plates to volume II are largely defective with frequent closed tearing and loss. Good William Creech hardcover

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Count de Buffon [Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon]; William Smellie; William WoodBiblio.com

Natural History General and Particular by the Count de Buffon Illustrated with Above Six Hundred Copper-Plates. The History of Man and Quadrupeds Translated with Notes and Observations by William Smellie

1812réf. 995Y33London: T. Cadell and W. Davies 1812. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 8.5" by 5.5". Not Stated . A copiously illustrated new edition of this encyclopaedic natural history complete here in twenty volumes. A new edition carefully corrected and considerably enlarged by many additional articles notes and plates. With an account of Buffon's life by William Wood. Complete in twenty volumes. Rebound in modern maroon cloth. Renewed endpapers. Bound with the original blanks and half titles. A complete set of Comte de Buffon's Natural History General and Particular.Named the "father of all thought in natural history in the second half of the 18th century" by Ernst Mayr Buffon worked on this series for some fifty years. Thirty-six volumes came out between 1749 and 1789 followed by 8 more after his death thanks to Bernard Germain de Lacépède.It includes all the knowledge available in his time on the "natural sciences" a broad term that includes disciplines which today would be called material science physics chemistry and technology. Buffon notes the morphological similarities between men and apes although he considered apes completely devoid of the ability to think differentiating them sharply from human beings. Buffon's attention to internal anatomy made him an early comparative anatomist.Vols I-II cover Theory of the Earth; Vol. III covers History of Man; Vols. IV-X cover History of Quadrupeds; Vol. XI covers History of Birds; Illustrated with upwards of six hundred copper plates bound as such: Vol. I - Portrait frontispiece and two folding maps.Vol. II - Thirteen plates six of which are folding. Vol. III - One plate.Vol. IV - Folding genealogical table and forty-eight plates. Vol. V - Sixty-four plates.Vol. VI - Sixty-six plates. Two plates numbered 152 both titled 'Marmot of the Cape' though illustrating two different animals and two plates numbered 158 with different animals the second being Crab-eater Raccoon thus following plate no. 158 to face page 155 instead of p. 163. As issued. Vol. VII - Fifty plates two of which are folding. 'Female Opossum' bound facing page 117 instead of p. 115. Lacking Plate No. 211 'Crab-Eater' as found to be the case with other copies. Page numbers for plates CCXV-CCXXIII in binder's directions from 134-172 are misprinted as 234 236 etc. Rights itself when it gets to 304. Plate No. 242 'Hippopotamus' bound facing page 472 instead of 435.Vol. VIII - Forty-nine plates. Plate no. 261 'Tzeiran' bound following no. 262 instead of facing page 170. Vol. IX - Fifty-six plates. Several plates in this volume have binding discrepancies but are all confirmed present. Vol. X - Sixty-nine plates.Vol. XI - Twenty-nine plates.Vol. XII - Twenty-seven plates. Several plates in this volume have binding discrepancies but are all confirmed present. Vol. XIII - Twenty-seven plates.Vol. XIV - Twenty-two plates. Vol. XV - Twenty-two plates.Vol. XVI - Fifteen plates. Vol. XVII - Nineteen plates.Vol. XVIII - Thirty-one plates.Vol. XIX - Forty plates.Vol. XX - Thirty-four plates.Collated complete. Rebound in modern maroon cloth. Externally lovely with only the odd minor mark. Internally firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean with occasional scattered spotting often more populated to the plates and surrounding pages. Occasional offsetting caused by plates. Reference clipping tipped-in to the verso of the half title of Vol I. Small open tear affecting the last four plates of Vol. IV. Very Good Indeed T. Cadell and W. Davies hardcover

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