BUFFON, Georges-Louis-Marie Le Clerc (1707-88) - Etienne Comte de LACEPEDE (1756-1825) - Histoire Naturelle générale et particulière avec la description du Cabinet du roi. Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1749-1804. First edition in fine binding of the famous work by the Count of Buffon enriched by 1227 splendid plates, mostly engraved by Sève, Helman, Fessard, and the sons of Sève. "Buffon's Natural History, General and Particular presented for the first time a complete survey of natural history in a popular form.. With the help of his assistant, Louis Daubenton, as anatomist, and later of other collaborators (notably the Comte de Lacépède), but always under his supervision and control, this vast enterprise eventually covered not only the entire animal creation, but many other ramifications.. [Buffon] was the first to present the universe as one complete whole and to find no phenomenon calling for any but a purely scientific explanation" (PMM). Buffon's work therefore combined a descriptive approach on an epistemological basis, declared in the first volume, with the need for a synthesis to express the organic nature and unity of nature. The complex collation of this edition has not been accurately described by bibliographers, and Nissen as well as Heilbrun in his article on Buffon, misreports amounts or make mistakes in the description of the plates. PMM 198. 44 volumes, 4to (254 x 191mm). Engraved portrait on frontispiece, 1227 engraved plates including 4 maps, 38 large engraved vignettes (lacking author’s portrait in the first volume of Supplément, occasional spotting and browning in all volumes, sporadic waterstains in a few volumes, few tiny marginal tears not touching text, removed and illeggible printed provenance on titles). Contemporary mottled calf with labels, red with title and dark with volume number, framed by gilt decorations, marbled endpapers and red edges (some defects in some volume, but mostly in good conditions, restored margin of the front cover of the first Minéraux volume, some wear to spines and labels, some scuffings or light stains, few tiny worm-holes, sometimes wears at joints). The work includes: - Histoire naturelle. 1749-1767. 15 volumes. 581 plates including, in the first volume, the author’s portrait on frontispiece and 2 maps. - Oiseaux. 1770-1783. 9 volumes. 262 plates (in the first volume 31 plates instead of 30 as called for in SBN; in the digital copies consulted the plates are always 31). - Minéraux. 1783-1788. 5 volumes. (the original work was supposed to include just 4 volumes, but a fifth volume was later added, the Traité de l'aimant, the last work published by Buffon before dying; on RBH some copies with a sixth volume are also recorded; lacking the 5 plates called for in SBN, but not present in the digital copies consulted). - Supplément. 1774-1789. 7 volumes. 228 plates, including 2 maps (lacking the two leaves of gathering 4B in the second volume). - Quadrupèdes ovipares et serpens, by Lacépède. 1788-1789. 2 volumes. 24 plates. - Poissons, by Lacépède. Paris: Plassan, 1798-XI [1803]. 5 volumes. 116 plates. - Cétacés, by Lacépède. 1804. One volume. 16 plates. Provenance: Francesco Rizzo Patarol (bookplate at endpaper). Provenance: Francesco Rizzo Patarol (bookplate). (44)
BUFFON, Georges-Louis-Marie Le Clerc (1707-88) - Etienne Comte de LACEPEDE (1756-1825) - Histoire Naturelle générale et particulière avec la description du Cabinet du roi. Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1749-1804. First edition in fine binding of the famous work by the Count of Buffon enriched by 1227 splendid plates, mostly engraved by Sève, Helman, Fessard, and the sons of Sève. "Buffon's Natural History, General and Particular presented for the first time a complete survey of natural history in a popular form.. With the help of his assistant, Louis Daubenton, as anatomist, and later of other collaborators (notably the Comte de Lacépède), but always under his supervision and control, this vast enterprise eventually covered not only the entire animal creation, but many other ramifications.. [Buffon] was the first to present the universe as one complete whole and to find no phenomenon calling for any but a purely scientific explanation" (PMM). Buffon's work therefore combined a descriptive approach on an epistemological basis, declared in the first volume, with the need for a synthesis to express the organic nature and unity of nature. The complex collation of this edition has not been accurately described by bibliographers, and Nissen as well as Heilbrun in his article on Buffon, misreports amounts or make mistakes in the description of the plates. PMM 198. 44 volumes, 4to (254 x 191mm). Engraved portrait on frontispiece, 1227 engraved plates including 4 maps, 38 large engraved vignettes (lacking author’s portrait in the first volume of Supplément, occasional spotting and browning in all volumes, sporadic waterstains in a few volumes, few tiny marginal tears not touching text, removed and illeggible printed provenance on titles). Contemporary mottled calf with labels, red with title and dark with volume number, framed by gilt decorations, marbled endpapers and red edges (some defects in some volume, but mostly in good conditions, restored margin of the front cover of the first Minéraux volume, some wear to spines and labels, some scuffings or light stains, few tiny worm-holes, sometimes wears at joints). The work includes: - Histoire naturelle. 1749-1767. 15 volumes. 581 plates including, in the first volume, the author’s portrait on frontispiece and 2 maps. - Oiseaux. 1770-1783. 9 volumes. 262 plates (in the first volume 31 plates instead of 30 as called for in SBN; in the digital copies consulted the plates are always 31). - Minéraux. 1783-1788. 5 volumes. (the original work was supposed to include just 4 volumes, but a fifth volume was later added, the Traité de l'aimant, the last work published by Buffon before dying; on RBH some copies with a sixth volume are also recorded; lacking the 5 plates called for in SBN, but not present in the digital copies consulted). - Supplément. 1774-1789. 7 volumes. 228 plates, including 2 maps (lacking the two leaves of gathering 4B in the second volume). - Quadrupèdes ovipares et serpens, by Lacépède. 1788-1789. 2 volumes. 24 plates. - Poissons, by Lacépède. Paris: Plassan, 1798-XI [1803]. 5 volumes. 116 plates. - Cétacés, by Lacépède. 1804. One volume. 16 plates. Provenance: Francesco Rizzo Patarol (bookplate at endpaper). Provenance: Francesco Rizzo Patarol (bookplate). (44)
Testen Sie LotSearch und seine Premium-Features 7 Tage - ohne Kosten!
Lassen Sie sich automatisch über neue Objekte in kommenden Auktionen benachrichtigen.
Suchauftrag anlegen
