Natural history, general and particular, by the Count de Buffon, translated into English
Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon (1707-1788)
Category
Books
Date
1785
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Ickworth, Suffolk
NT 3171402.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
v.1, plates. ill.., port. 8vo. Provenance: Pencil price notes or shelfmarks (?) on v. 1 pastedown. Binding: Nineteenth-century (?) full tree calf over boards; spines gilt; red spine labels with title ‘Buffon’s Natural history’
Provenance
Part of the Bristol Collection. The house and contents were acquired through the National Land Fund and transferred to the National Trust in 1956
Makers and roles
Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon (1707-1788) William Smellie (1740-1795)