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  • M0006371: Portrait of Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707-1788)
  • Buffon's Natural history, abridged. Including the history of the elements, the earth, mountains, rivers, seas, winds, whirlwinds, waterspouts, volcanoes, earthquakes, man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, shell-fish, lizards, serpents, insects, and vegetables / [George Louis Leclerc Buffon].
  • Buffon's Natural history, abridged. Including the history of the elements, the earth, mountains, rivers, seas, winds, whirlwinds, waterspouts, volcanoes, earthquakes, man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, shell-fish, lizards, serpents, insects, and vegetables / [George Louis Leclerc Buffon].
  • A rachitic skeleton, measuring two feet two inches in length, seen from the front and the back. Engraving, 1749.
  • Five figures of exostoses (tumours) on the left femur (thigh-bone) Engraving, 1749.
  • A false ankylosis of the right femur (thigh-bone), seen from the front and back (figs 1-2) and divided for an interior view (fig. 3) Engraving, 1749.
  • Buffon's Natural history, abridged. Including the history of the elements, the earth, mountains, rivers, seas, winds, whirlwinds, waterspouts, volcanoes, earthquakes, man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, shell-fish, lizards, serpents, insects, and vegetables / [George Louis Leclerc Buffon].
  • Wax model of the female generative organs, by an anonymous collaborator of La Croix from dissections by Faget. Engraving, 1749.
  • Wax model of the female generative organs, by an anonymous collaborator of La Croix from dissections by Faget. Engraving, 1749.
  • An ankylosis of the bones of the fractured right femur (thigh-bone) and tibia (lower leg bone) (figs 1-2) and the radius and ulna (bones of the forearm) joined by a flexible callus (figs 3-4) Engraving, 1749.
  • A title page (right) embellished with illustration of people ascending steep cliffs and a book plate (left) of four birds. Engravings by S. Davenport, ca. 1821.
  • Limewood models of the ear by G. Mastiani 1743. Engraving, 1749.
  • Seven insects, including an earwig, a glow worm and four different beetles. Engraving by G. F. Schroeder, ca. 1822.
  • Ten insects, including an ichneumon, a gnat and a king, a queen, a labourer and a soldier ant. Engraving by G. F. Schroeder, ca. 1822.
  • A child born with the viscera reversed. Engraving, 1749.
  • Wax models of the viscera, etc. by Jean-Joseph Sue père, after his own dissections. Engraving, 1749.
  • The entrails of a horse (?), showing the bladder. Engraving by F. Basan, 1753, after J. de Seve.
  • A female foetus of six inches in length with over-developed genitals. Engraving by J. Daullé after J. de Sève, 1749.
  • A cat born with two heads. Engraving by J. Chevillet, 1756, after J. De Sève.
  • Three figures of foetuses with hermaphroditic genitals. Engraving by J. Daullé after J. de Sève, 1749.
  • Wax model of the human male generative organs and viscera, made by an anonymous collaborator of La Croix from dissections made by M. Faget while surgeon at the Hôpital Général de la Salpêtrière. Engraving by R. Gaillard after J. De Seve, 1749.
  • A sloth; sloth in a tree in background. Engraving by J.C. Baquoy after J. de Seve, 1765.
  • Top, a mole; bottom, an écorché mole. Engraving by J.C. Baquoy after Buvée l'Amériquain, 1760.
  • A dappled horse; a farmhouse in the background. Engraving by J.C. Baquoy, 1753, after J.B. Oudry.
  • Top, the lesser horseshoe bat; bottom, a bat with large ears. Engraving by J.C. Baquoy after Buvée l'Ameriquain, 1760.
  • Top, a barbastelle bat; bottom, a pipistrelle bat. Engraving by J.C. Baquoy after Buvée l'Ameriquain, 1760.
  • Histoire naturelle, générale et particuliére, avec la description du cabinet du roi / [Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon].
  • Histoire naturelle, générale et particuliére, avec la description du cabinet du roi / [Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon].
  • Histoire naturelle, générale et particuliére, avec la description du cabinet du roi / [Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon].
  • Histoire naturelle, générale et particuliére, avec la description du cabinet du roi / [Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon].