Oeuvres complètes de M. le c[om]te de Buffon. Histoire des animaux quadrupèdes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788.

Contributor:

Bénard., Illustrator.

Sève, Jacques Henri de, d. 1795., Illustrator.

Breck, Samuel, 1771-1862., Donor.

Imprimerie royale (France), Publisher.

Foreign Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Mammals--Early works to 1800.

Mammals.

Zoology--Pre-Linnean works.

Zoology.

Zoological illustration--France--Early works to 1800--Specimens.

Zoological illustration.

Natural history illustration--France--Early works to 1800.

Natural history illustration.

Illustration of books--18th century--France--Specimens.

Illustration of books.

Physical Description:

13 v. : ill. ; 17 cm.

Other Title:

Histoire des animaux quadrupèdes

Histoire naturelle

Place of Publication:

A Paris : De l'Imprimerie royale, 1775-1789.

Notes:

Title vignettes, tailpieces.

Tomes 1-7 published in 1775, t. 8-9 in 1777, 10-11 in 1785.

Includes bibliographical references.

Tomes 1-7 are indexed in: Buffon's Histoire naturelle: table des matières (published in 1779). Some of the other tomes have index at end of vol.

Plates in t. I-VII after drawings by Benard; those in t. VIII-IX by De Sève.

Tomes VIII-XI contain "Supplément à l'Histoire des animaux quadrupèdes."

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 has: v. 1-11.

Athenaeum's copy of v. 7 was mislabelled as v. 12 during rebinding.

Athenaeum copy: Conservation by the Florence Gould Foundation.

Athenaeum copy: Breck first presentation bookplate.

Athenaeum copy: Bookplate: "Samuel Breck, jun. Boston, 1789."

Athenaeum copy: Breck bequest.

OCLC:

19591721