Histoire naturelle, générale et particuliére, avec la description du cabinet du roy. ...
Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon (1707-1788)
Category
Books
Date
1750
Materials
Place of origin
France
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3042550
Summary
Bibliographic description
3v., plates . maps . 4to.. Old Wimpole shelfmarks: A.4.1-3 [brown ink]; B/6 [pencil]; B.3.1-3 [dark blue ink]. Provenance: Armorial bookplate: The Honble. Charles Yorke [i.e. Charles Yorke (1722-1770, younger brother of the 2nd Earl of Hardwicke; Lord Chancellor, 1770]. Binding: Eighteenth-century mottled calf; five raised bands; gilt tooled spine; board edges gilt; text block edges red; gilt lettered spine: Histoire naturel. Marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon (1707-1788) Louis Jean-Marie Daubenton (1716 - 1800)