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1788rif. M6850Paris 1788. Very Good; laid on acid-free paper for long-term preservation. Notes: This handsome sea chart that indicates magnetic needle readings along various routes through the Atlantic. Size : 850x532 mm 33.46x20.94 Inches Coloring: Hand Colored in Outline Category: Maps Sea Chart; Maps Ocean Atlantic; unknown
1828rif. 7450G Virtue 1828. 1st edition thus. Hardback. Half calf VG. 352128pp colour frontis colour title page 29 coloured plates a few plates stained but generally in nice condition. Last Gather is NOT from this work - an error at the binders has included Aitkens biog of Charles Grey - Several of the the plates from the Buffon are missing. An odd combination! The plates are quite quaint. G Virtue hardcover
1770rif. 89949Paris: Imprimerie royale 1770. Fine. Mrs Necker: ""Animals seemed to be the most distant from us and Buffon's art lay in constantly bringing them closer"" our own translation Imprimerie royale Paris 1770-1783 20 x 26.4 cm relié First edition from the Imprimerie Royale complete in nine quarto volumes with all 262 black-and-white engraved plates. Contemporary full mottled calf spines with raised bands decorated with guilloche tooling and gilt ornaments in the compartments red morocco lettering-pieces and numbering-pieces triple gilt fillet border on boards double gilt fillet on board edges marbled endpapers and pastedowns marbled edges. Minor variations in the tooling on volume 3. In this set some headcaps missing 6 cm joints split at foot of volume 1 6.5 cm and 6 cm at foot of volume 2 3.5 cm at head of volume 3 corners bumped scratches and minor restoration to boards including a more significant repair on volume 7 measuring 11 cm browning in left margin of lower board of volume 4. In this copy: some worming several instances of dampstaining throughout the set more pronounced in volumes 1 3 and 8 some tears restored on the title page and on pp. ix and xxiii of volume 1 also restored on p. 496 of volume 2 on pp. 259 and 260 of volume 3 on pp. 481 and 482 of volume 4 and on pp. 173 to 176 of volume 5. Copy with some marginal annotations: in volume 2 a manuscript footnote added in ink on p. 541 ""Voyez les Planches enluminures n°491"" erroneous manuscript dates in ink in volumes 2 and 8 the number ""18"" annotated in ink in the upper right corner of the rear endpaper of volume 9. Copy richly illustrated with drawings by Jacques de Sève engraved by Robert de Launay Lucas Michel Madeleine-Thérèse Rousselet C. Baron Hubert Catherine Haussard Carl Gottlieb Guttenberg Jean-Guillaume Blanchon Menil Dufour Louis Claude Legrand Claude Mathieu Fessard Elisabeth Haussard François Hubert A.-B. Duhamel Mlle Mansard C. Baquoy Heinrich Guttenberg Laurent Guyot Benazeth Schmitz Marie-Anne Rousselet M. R. veuve Tardieu Louis-Gabriel Monnier Pierre-Étienne Moitte Jean-Louis de Lignon Levillain N. du Four Thomas Chambars Nicolas Thomas Luigi Valperga and George Louis Biosse. Accompanied by two additional plates heightened in color numbered XX and XXII from a volume 7 of the Histoire naturelle des oiseaux. The illustrator Jacques de Sève's main work was unquestionably the Histoire naturelle générale et particulière for which he executed nearly 2000 drawings. Unlike the illustrations he produced for other sections of Buffon's monumental work made primarily from stuffed specimens his work on birds was essentially executed from living models. To accomplish this vast project Jacques de Sève drew inspiration from the works of the king's ""Peintre ordinaire"" Jean-Baptiste Oudry. This judicious decision won him the favor of the queen a great admirer of the master of animal painting. By incorporating small Boucher-style putti in the introductory vignettes of certain volumes of the Histoire naturelle des oiseaux Sève also gained the good graces of the king's mistress. These illustrations at once decorative and scholarly which appear in the present first edition were not retained in the duodecimo edition. A superb complete copy of Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon's Histoire naturelle des oiseaux by the French Pliny. As Ferdinand Hoefer wrote this work maintains the same ""magnificence of style"" as the other publications in the Histoire naturelle générale et particulière. Imprimerie royale hardcover
1816rif. C217705London: Sherwood Neely and Jones 1816. Hardcover Hardcover. Very Good. Vol. 5 only. Small octavo. vii 386 2pp. 6 plates. Contemporary half leather over cloth boards. Slight rubbing and wear to covers lacks backstrip otherwise very good with bright solid contents. Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, hardcover
1832rif. C217952London: Joseph Smith 1832. Hardcover Hardcover. Good. Sixteenmo. 144; 144pp. Contemporary half leather over marbled boards with gilt spine titles. Some rubbing and wear to covers inner rear hinge starting some pages with pencil scribbles mainly at start and end otherwise a good copy. Joseph Smith, hardcover
1954rif. 4839DB1954. Lausanne André Gonin 1954. Gross-4°. 2 Frontispieces 140 S. Mit 33 z. Teil ganzs. lithogr. Illustrationen von Hans Erni 6 S. Lose Bogen in lithogr. brosch. Orig.-Umschlag u. illustr. Orig.-Halbpergament-Chemise in illustr. Orig.-Pappschuber Nr. XXX imprimé pour Monsieur Walter Herdeg von 250 GA 220 30 hc Ex. in Baskerville-Antiqua auf Rives-Bütten. Im Impressum vom Verleger und Künstler signiert. unknown
1787rif. 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
2007rif. 304240-MA12Paris : Éditio-Éditions Citadelles & Mazenod 2007. Hardcover. Good. Original cloth dust jacket richly illusrate din colour slipcase folio. Textes choisis et introduits par Stéphane Schmitt avec la collaboration de Cédric Crémiére. Illustrée par 1008 gravures de François-Nicolas Martinet. Paris : Éditio-Éditions Citadelles & Mazenod hardcover
1789rif. 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
1825rif. 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
1735rif. 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
1771rif. 1423Paris: Imprimerie Royale 1771. Ephemera no binding. Fine. Jacques DeSÈVE. EPHEMERA MATTED PRINT. Pierre Etienne MOITTE engraver. 4to plate size; hand-colored copper plate engraving; 7 5/8" x 5 7/8" within the print borders plate line visible; 14" x 11" custom acid-free archival backing and French matting with hand-applied gilt striping. Fine. From George-Louis LeClerc Comte de Buffon's Histoire naturelle générale et particulière 1749-1778 in 36 volumes a fine copper-plate engraving featuring a Pug dog tail unclipped and curled in a stately pose with a fountain and Roman ruins in the background. Imprimerie Royale unknown
1855rif. 31004AB1855. 12 Bände. Paris Librairie Garnier Freres 6 rue des Saints-Peres 1855. 4°. Mit über 8000 Seiten. 150 kolorierte Stahlstiche. Halbleinenbände mit geprägter Rückenbeschriftung. Mit Gebrauchspuren. Durchgehend stockfleckig. unknown
1831rif. 3736DB1831. 2 Bände. Milano Gaetano Schiepatti 1831. 8°. XXIII 279 S.; 305 S. 2 Bl. Mit 2 gest. Frontisp. 2 gest. Titel mit Portrait und 36 Kupfertafeln. Moderne Pappbände mit mont. Orig.-Buchdeckel. Seiten unbeschnitten. Neu aufgebunden. unknown
1880rif. 5553CB1880. Paris Garnier Frères 1880. Kl.-4°. XII 622 S. 2 Bl. Mit 32 handkolorierten Tafeln und Textillustrationen in Holzstich. Roter Halblederband aus der Zeit mit Rückenvergoldung und dreiseitigem Goldschnitt Blindprägung auf Deckeln Ch. Magnier. Sehr attraktiv illustrierte Ausgabe zusammengestellt aus den Werken von Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon 17071788 die sich mit Säugetieren und Vögeln befasst. Kanten leicht berieben sonst schönes sauberes Exemplar Besitzereintrag auf Vorsatz. unknown
1804rif. 4989BB1804. 3. Auflage. 5 Bände. Paris Le Prieur 1804. Klein-8°. Mit 1 gest. Frontisp. und 56 gest. Tafeln. Halblederbände aus der Zeit mit je 2 goldgepr. Rückenschildern und einfacher Rückenvergoldung. Die Vorsätze leimschattig. Durchgehend leicht gebräunt und stockfleckig. Einbände berieben und bestossen. Gelenke von Band eins geplatzt und eine Tafel lose. unknown
1780rif. 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
1780rif. 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
1780rif. 6328Germany 1780; Circa 1780 copper engraving after a Jacques de Seve drawing of the Civet Cat Viverra sp. from an 18th c. German edition of Buffon’s Histoire Naturelle. The Civet a skunk-like mammal indigenous to the South Asian and African tropics was at one time essential to the manufacture of perfumes for the musk oil extracted from its perineal gland. Plate and page numbers engraved at top Taf. XXXIV 181 Seite. Sheet size 7 1/2" x 9 1/2" plate mark 6 3/8" x 9". Printed on laid paper. Hinge-mounted entirely acid free and matted with 100% rag museum board in 11" x 14" size ready for framing. Original state with no later attempts at colorization. Fine and handsome. unknown
1761rif. 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
1827rif. 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
1770rif. 6314Imprimerie Royale Paris c. 1770; Original copper engraving after a drawing by Jacque de Seve depicting a sea lion in its natural environment a style De Seve is credited with having originated and a departure from the works of previous natural history artists who typically placed their subjects in an unpopulated void of blank space. Plate XLVIII from Volume VI of Buffon’s monumental Histoire Naturelle published in 36 volumes between the years 1749 and 1788. Engraved by Marie Rousselet Tardieu widow of eminent cartographer and engraver Pierre Francois Tardieu and one of only a few documented female engravers. Printed on laid paper. Fine original condition with no attempts at later colorization. Hinged and matted entirely acid free with 100% rag museum board ready for framing. Sheet size 7 3/4" x 10 3/8" plate mark 6 1/2" x 8 3/4" outside matte dimensions 11" x 14". An exceptional print. Imprimerie Royale unknown
1788rif. 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
1957rif. 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
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