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Histoire naturelle des oiseaux / [par M. de Buffon]
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Foreign Imprints 1770 Buffon
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788.
- Language:
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Birds--Early works to 1800.
- Birds.
- Ornithology.
- Natural history--Pre-Linnean works.
- Natural history.
- Physical Description:
- 18 v. : ill. ; 17 cm. (12mo)
- Place of Publication:
- Paris : Impr. royale, 1770-1792.
- Notes:
- Title vignettes.
- Tomes 1-4 by Buffon (with some articles by Montbelliard (cf. Avertissement in t. 5); t. 5-12 by Buffon and Montbelliard; t. 13-18 by Buffon with the assistance of abbé Bexon et M. Daubenton.
- This edition does not contain the colored plates executed by Daubenton the younger, but rather the black and white set by De Sève prepared when Buffon recognized that Daubenton's plates could not be produced in sufficient quantity to accompany all copies of the text. For description of this and other editions of the "Oiseaux", see Kansas. University. Libraries. Catalogue of the Ellis collection of ornithological books ... Lawrence, 1972, p. 231-244; also Ayer, Edward E. Catalogue of the Edward E. Ayer ornithological library, Chicago, 1926, part 1, p. 104-114; and Buffon, Oiseaux, 1770-1785, t. I, p. xi-xv; t. XIII, p. vii-viii.
- Tomes 1-2 published in 1770, t. 3-4 in 1772, t. 5-6 in 1775, t. 7-10 in 1779, t. 11-14 in 1780, t. 15-16 in 1781, t. 17-18 in 1785.
- Half-title: t. 7-14, Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière; t. 15-16, Histoire naturelle des oiseaux.
- "Suivant la copie in-4⁰" on t.p. of t. 7-10, 13-18.
- Title vignette.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: v.1 exhibited: "Samuel Breck (1771-1862): Books From the Library of a Philadelphia Francophile," at the Athenaeum of Philadelphia, 2013-14.
- Athenaeum copy: Bookplate: "Samuel Breck, jun. Boston, 1789."
- Athenaeum copy: Breck first presentation bookplate.
- Athenaeum copy: Breck bequest.
- OCLC:
- 4353238
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