Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière, . avec la description du cabinet du Roi. Par Mrs. de Buffon & Daubenton. ...
Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon (1707-1788)
Category
Books
Date
1766 - 1771
Materials
Place of origin
Netherlands
Collection
Nostell Priory, West Yorkshire
NT 3089627
Summary
Bibliographic description
15v., plates . 4to.. 15 vols. bound in 7. Printed auction/sale slip pasted to front board of vol. 1 of Histoire Naturelle (1766-1771), stating that this was sold with Buffon's Supplement (1774-1799), Oiseaux (1796-1799), Minereaux (1798-1799) and Ovipares (1799). The whole was uniformly bound into 19 vols.. Binding: Nineteenth-century half green morocco; marbled paper over boards; recessed cords; spines direct lettered in gilt: Histoire Naturelle Buffon & Daubenton Animaux Quadrupedes ...
Makers and roles
Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon (1707-1788) Edme-Louis Daubenton (1730 - 1785)