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1835Best.-Nr. 107504Paris: P. Dumenil 1835. Reprint . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. eight volume setoriginal green quarter leather hardcover with spine lettered and ruled in giltmarbled boards130 fine clean uncoloured platesminor rubbing to extremities otherwise a very good set with minor foxing to text pages only. P. Dumenil hardcover
1798Best.-Nr. 84382London: H. D. Symonds Paternoster-Row 1798. Volume 5 only. Text bright with some light foxing and tanning small bookplate on front pastedown binding firm chipping to edges of boards with gilt decs faded from spine but overall quite neat for its age. Hard. Very Good Minus. 8vo. H. D. Symonds Paternoster-Row Hardcover
1870Best.-Nr. 26281London: Frederick Warne and Co. 1870. Modernized from the Most Recent Authorities. No date listed. This is probably the 1870 edition according to WorldCat. Sixteen color plates. Bumped and worn corners. Chipped at bottom corners. Peeling along the front hinge. Frayed at the extremities. Wear along edges. Some scratching and rubbing on back cover. Paper separated above back hinge. Foxing throughout. The Shilling Edition. Hard Cover. Fair/No Dust Jacket. 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall. Frederick Warne and Co. Hardcover
2010Best.-Nr. Cambridge-9781108023061Cambridge University Press 2010. PAPERBACK. New. Cambridge University Press paperback
2010Best.-Nr. Cambridge-9781108023061Cambridge University Press 2010. PAPERBACK. New. Cambridge University Press paperback
2007Best.-Nr. 2-2070118037Gallimard 2007. Leather Bound. New. 1760 pages. French language. 7.17x4.57x1.81 inches. Gallimard hardcover
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Best.-Nr. 3506678Short description: In Russian. Buffon Georges Louis Leclerc. Illustrated Buffon or Natural History of Four Pods Birds Fish and Insects drawn by Victor Adam: Moscow: Type. A. Semyon 1853. The image is provided for reference only. It may reflect condition of one of the available copies or only help in identifying the edition. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKU3506678 unknown
1984Best.-Nr. feb13824Univers 1984. Used. 1984; Romanian Edition of Istoria naturala; For more details please contact me Univers unknown
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1799Best.-Nr. feb1037611799. Used. 1799; French Edition of HISTOIRE NATURELLE TOM 14 ; For more details please contact me unknown
1774Best.-Nr. 7132Leipzig: Hermann Heinrich Holle 1774. Hardcover. Very good. Quarto 2 parts in one volume. A very good copy bound in 19th century 3/4 sheep and blue mottled paper over boards. First signature partly loosened but still attached. Contents clean. General wear to extremities; a crisp copy. Contains a few large engravings of various simians and some other lithographs. Text in German; single volume only. Hermann Heinrich Holle hardcover
Best.-Nr. 94345A Paris De L’Imprimerie Royale 1774. Hardback 6.5 x 4 inches. Full calf with gilt decorations and raised banding to spine. Marbled page edges. In very good. Chips to top end of spine and corners edges rubbed. Front hinge cracked. Another interesting little book safe. Title and first 22 pages retained at front. Hollowed section lined with original rear endpaper. A Paris, De L’Imprimerie Royale, 1774 hardcover
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1819Best.-Nr. 102626Paris: Impr. de Aug. Delalain. 1819. Later binding in half-leather with leather spine title label eleven engraved plates of animals pp 16 174 ii Publisher's signature reverse of title page New endpapers. Previous owner's inscription title page. Ocasional light foxing some marking to the top coner of last few pages. Very good condition in custom-made slipcase. Extracts from the work of Georges-Louis Leclerc Comte de Buffon's famous work 'Histoire naturelle' which he started to publish in 1749. 2nd Edition. Half leather. Impr. de Aug. Delalain hardcover
1751Best.-Nr. 1609070017Hambourg i.e. Hamburg 1751-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 5 volume set. 9 parts bound as 5. Includes 2 additional works bound also in "Lettres d'un Philosophe a un docteur de Sorbonne sur les explications de M. de Buffon" by Duhamel 1754; "Reflexions sur le Systeme de Generation De M. De Buffon" by Albrecht von Haller. Collated: 2 127 1 50; 2 66 2 66 2; 2 31 1 96 69 1; 2 78 2 92; 2 185 1; 238 2; 2 238 2; 2 258 2; 2 276 2 138 3 67 4 12mo. Bound in full contemporary calf. Gilt stamping to spines. Some of the hinges cracked starting. All edges red. Marbled end pages. Pages clean and unmarked. Sabin 41054. Barbier II col. 1222; Cobres p. 210. Lignac's letters written to an anonymous American with the help of Bouguer was an attempt to refute Buffon and Condillac. Lignac's identified Buffon's attempts to subject natural phenomena to observation and experiment divorced from the literal biblical interpretation and provided an early criticism of the new scientific thinking. "Lignac's criticism was essentially that Buffon "contradicts Genesis in everything" ruins religion and drives God out of natural history." See Roger Jacques "Buffon A Life in Natural History" p. 192. The relevance of this work today is in the changes and challenges facing the French Academy as France entered into the modern era. This is an oversized or heavy book that requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. Hambourg [i.e. Hamburg] hardcover
1769Best.-Nr. 1610270041Paris: Imprimerie Royale 1769. Hardcover. Good. 14 volumes. Bound in contemporary French mottled calf. Gilt stamps spines. Good bindings and covers. Some minor edge wear. All edges red. Marginal dampstaining affecting plates in Volume 9. Occasional spotting. Supplement and Volumes 7 and 8 have sprung leaves. Profusely illustrated with 202 engraved plates 2 folding maps folding chart. Georges-Louis Leclerc Comte de Buffon was a noted scientist whose monumental works in natural sciences influenced the next two generations of naturalists including Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Georges Cuvier. Mayr The Growth of Biological Thought. p 330 Buffon's work was based on the methods of observation and experimentation. He raised many of the fundamental problems of biology in a scientific context. One of Buffon's most important contributions was the popularization of the old earth theory in opposition to Archbishop Ussher's biblical earth time-line. Buffon was an important pre-cursor to Darwin. Cited as the father of biogeography Buffon's Law postulated that creatures "improved" and "degenerated" after dispersing from a center of creation. He based his theory on comparative anatomy studies. Buffon tried to explain the origin of living things by spontaneous generation of elementary particles and its development as a consequence of climate and diet. Buffon argued that all members of a family of species descended from the same ancestors a "unity of type". Contents:T. 1. Premier discours. Second discours. Preuves de la theorie de la terre: article I-VIII --t. 2. Article IX-XIX. Conclusion --t. 3. Histoire generale des animaux: chapitre I-IX --t. 4. Chapitre X-XI. Recapitulation. Histoire naturelle de l'homme --t. 5. Varietes dans l'espece humaine. Discours sur la nature des animaux. Letters de MM. les deputes & syndic de la Faculte de theologie a M. de Buffon avec les reponse & declaration de M. de Buffon. Discours prononce a l'Academie francoise --t. 6. Les animaux domestiques --t. 7-12. Les animaux sauvages --t. 13. Concordance & table alphabetique des noms pour les animaux quadrupedes. Supplement III. This is an oversized or heavy book that requires additional postage for international delivery outside of Canada and the US. Paris: Imprimerie Royale hardcover
1792Best.-Nr. 1305120001Berne: Nouvelle societe typographique 1792-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 13 volume set. Plates; Charts. French. Clean unmarked pages. Contemporary light blue boards some slightly bent at edge. Deckle cut. Generally solid bindings. Some wear to spine edges. See our pictures. I-III : Theorie de la terre. IV-VII : Mineralogie. VIII : Epoques de la nature. IX-XIII : Histoire generale des animaux et de l'homme. Berne: Nouvelle societe typographique hardcover
1833Best.-Nr. 1209170012Paris: Pourrat freres 1833-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. A quality set. 20 volume set. 21 cm. Green leather spines with green marbled boards. All bindings sound. Minor rubbing to extremities. Unmarked pages. Scattered foxing. 4 folding color engraved maps and 181 color engravings of mammals and birds. Includes: T.I: Theorie de la terre. T.II: Theorie de la terre suite. Histoire des mineraux: introduction. T.III: Histoire des mineraux. Epoques de la nature. T.IV a VII: Histoire des mineraux. Experiences sur les vegetaux T.VII--T.VIII a IX: Histoire des animaux. de l'homme. T.X a XIV: Histoire des animaux. T.XV a XX: Oiseaux. Georges-Louis Leclerc Comte de Buffon was a noted scientist whose monumental works in natural sciences influenced the next two generations of naturalists including Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Georges Cuvier. Mayr The Growth of Biological Thought. p 330 Buffon's work was based on the methods of observation and experimentation. He raised many of the fundamental problems of biology in a scientific context. One of Buffon's most important contributions was the popularization of the old earth theory in opposition to Archbishop Ussher's biblical earth time-line. Buffon was an important pre-cursor to Darwin. Cited as the father of biogeography Buffon's Law postulated that creatures "improved" and "degenerated" after dispersing from a center of creation. He based his theory on comparative anatomy studies. Buffon tried to explain the origin of living things by spontaneous generation of elementary particles and its development as a consequence of climate and diet. Buffon argued that all members of a family of species descended from the same ancestors a "unity of type". This is an oversized or heavy book that requires additional postage for international delivery outside of Canada and the US. Pourrat freres hardcover
