Histoire naturelle des oiseaux.
Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon (1707-1788)
Category
Books
Date
1770
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3042374.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
v. 1, plates : ill. ; fol. Plates hand-coloured. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (large variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century half brown morocco; pink cloth over boards; black spine labels with gilt title ‘Oiseaux' and vol. no.; four recessed cords; gilt top edge. Original? black (gilt-lettered) spine labels bound in at end. Binder's gilt stamp on rear turn-in: 'Robson & Co. Ltd. 7, Hanover Street, W.1.'.
Makers and roles
Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon (1707-1788), author