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Buffon, Georges Louis Marie Leclerc Comte De & Barr, James Smith [translator] Buffon's Natural History. Containing A Theory Of The Earth, A General Natural History Of Man, Of The Brute Creation And Of Vegetables, Minerals &c &c. From The French With Notes By The Translator. Volume IX [only]
Printed for the proprietor & sold by D Symonds, Paternoster Row. 1797 a new edition.
Full diced calf, P. iv+355pp, 15 b/w plates showing 44 engraved illustrations, Early bookplate of W B Best, leather rather rubbed & chipped to the spine, upper board loose, contents bright, with some slight foxing, a nice copy. This volumes contains descriptions of the Apes & Monkeys, Seals, Otters & small carniverous animals. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon [ 1707 - 1788 ] French naturalist who's Natural History went through many editions. Published originally as 'Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière' between 1749 – 1778, the book was a landmark description of the Natural World and contained many ideas that would be developed further ( natural selection, man descended from apes, biogeography ) in the decades to come.
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28.50 GBP
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