Histoire naturelle, générale et particuliere (v.40)
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Type of record: Book
Title: Histoire naturelle, générale et particuliere (v.40)
Classmark: BC For C17/18/BUF
Creator(s): Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc comte de (1707-1788)
Publisher: Chez Sanson & compagnie
Publication city: Aux Deux-Ponts [Zweibrücken]
Date(s): 1785-1790
Language: French
Size and medium: 54 v in 37
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/295522
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991003476009705181
Description
"Avec l'aide de Philibert Guénau de Montbeillard, Gabriel Bexon, Louis Daubenton et Bernard La Ville-sur-Illon, comte de Lacépède".
Not present in this set are Lacépède's "Histoire naturelle des quadrupèdes ovipares et serpens", "Histoire naturelle des poissons" and "Histoire naturelle des cétacées".
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents: t. 1-13 (in 7 vv.): Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière : [matières génŕales], by Buffon and Daubenton conjointly. Included in this section are the "Histoire naturelle des animaux", "Histoire de l'homme" and "Introduction à l'Histoire des minŕaux". -- t. [14]-[27] (in 7 vv.): "Histoire naturelle générale et particulière: Quadrupèdes", by Buffon, completed by Lacépède. The illustrations in these volumes are hand-coloured. -- t. [28]-[45] (in 18 vv.): "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière: Oiseaux", by Buffon, Guénau de Montbeillard and Bexon. The illustrations in these volumes are hand-coloured. -- t. [46]-[54] (in 5 vv.): "Histoire naturelle des minéraux", by Buffon.
Indexed in: Nissen, C. Die zoologische Buchillustration 679.
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