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147 - BUFFON, Georges-Louis Leclerc de and FLOURENS, Marie Jean Pi…
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BUFFON, Georges-Louis Leclerc de and FLOURENS, Marie Jean Pierre. The Complete Works of Buffon, including Linnaean nomenclature and Cuvier’s classification, revised from the quarto edition published by the Imprimerie Royale and annotated by Mr Flourens. The Complete Works of Buffon, annotated by Pierre Flourens, containing 163 full-page engravings, including 157 colour engravings of animals, comprising nearly 800 illustrations. Paris, Garnier Frères, n.d. [1852]. 12 volumes in 12 quarto volumes, in brown half-shagreen, spined with raised bands decorated with fleurons and gilt titles. XXXVI–686 pp.; 667; 597; 680; 597; 586 pp. – 1 unpaginated plate; 624; 631; 668; 568 pp. – 1 unpaginated leaf; 609 and 824 pp. – 5 pp., 163 plates including 2 frontispieces, 4 maps and 157 plates hand-coloured. Scuffing mainly to the covers and edges; foxing unevenly distributed (illustrations generally well preserved thanks to the protective paper wrappers). A fine edition of this great bibliophilic classic. This complete works of Buffon contains two frontispieces, four geographical maps and 157 colour-enhanced animal plates, making a total of 163 steel engravings depicting nearly 800 subjects (Brunet counts 166, although the general table does not list plates 164 to 166). It is annotated by Pierre Flourens (1794–1867), a leading French physician and biologist of the mid-19th century. Buffon (1707–1788) focuses on the classification and description of the main species of birds and mammals: elephants, bison, cassowaries, polar bears, penguins, lynx… Several hundred species are featured in what is the greatest illustrated work on the natural sciences. The volumes are organised as follows: - Volume 1: Theory of the Earth – General History of Animals - Volume 2: Man – Quadrupeds - Volume 3: Quadrupeds - Volume 4: Monkeys – Additions to the Quadrupeds - Volumes 5 to 8: Birds - Volume 9: Introduction to Minerals – Epochs of Nature - Volumes 10 and 11: Minerals - Volume 12: Experiments on Plants, Moral Arithmetic and Analytical and Reasoned Tables of the Subjects Covered in the Entire Work A fine series of this work, as well-reasoned as it is scientific, which needs no further introduction. Sources: - Brunet, I, 1379
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