Buffon's Natural history, abridged. Including the history of the elements, - the earth, ... insects, - & vegetables. Illustrated with great variety of copper plates, ... In two volumes. ...
Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon (1707-1788)
Category
Books
Date
1792
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3221233
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v., plates : ill. ; 8vo. Provenance: nineteenth-century armorial bookplate: "John Edwards." [i.e. Sir John Edwards, 1st bart. Edwards, of Garth, Montgomeryshire, father of Mary Cornelia Vane Tempest, née Edwards (d. 1906), m. 1846 to George, 5th Marquess of Londonderry]. Binding: eighteenth-century half calf, with marbled paper boards; double gilt fillets on spine; gilt lettered red spine labels.
Makers and roles
Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon (1707-1788)