Œuvres complètes de M. le C[om]te de Buffon ... : histoire des animaux quadrupèdes

Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788, John Adams Library (Boston Public Library) BRL, Adams, John, 1735-1826, former owner · 1775 · A Paris : De l'Imprimerie royale · 31 pictures

Volumes of Buffon's Histoire des animaux quadrupèdes, issued by the Imprimerie royale in Paris in 1775 for subscribers to his collected works, copy once owned by John Adams. Copperplate engravings place single mammals — dormice, opossums, rodents — on stone blocks and banks, with ruins, bridges and foliage behind, offering cut-out animal silhouettes, hatched shading and small landscape vignettes.

Natural history · Animals · Zoological illustration -- France Early works to 1800 · Zoological illustration -- France · Natural history illustration -- France · Illustration of books -- France 18th century

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