Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc de (1707-1788)

Histoire naturelle des animaux terrestres, aquatiques et volatiles. The 152 pp. contain water-colour drawings of animals copied from Buffon, and include illustrations of flowers and shells by a different and later hand.

Late 18th century

1 volume 41 pp. + 1 bl. 1 + 152 pp. 4to. 20 x 151/2 cm. Original paper covers. Last leaf defective and laid down.

Purchased 1928.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

From the Berhard II Collection.