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Early attempt to synthesize scientific thought

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Author: Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de
Title: Buffon's Natural History, Containing a Theory of the Earth... [together with] Natural History of Birds, Fish, Insects and Reptiles
Place Published: London
Publisher:J.S. Barr
Date Published: 1792-1793
Description:

15 volumes. Engraved plates. 19x11.5 (7½x4½"), period full mottled calf, gilt tooling on boards and spine, spine labels. Includes:

Buffon's Natural History, Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &c. London: Printed by J.S. Barr, Bridges-street, Covent-Garden, MDCCXCII. 10 volumes.

Natural History of Birds, Fish, Insects and Reptiles. Embellished with upwards of two hundred engravings. London: Printed by J.S. Barr, MDCCXCIII. 5 volumes.

With bookplate of Jacob Lousada on front pastedown of most volumes. English translations of Buffon's important pre-Linnean attempts to organize the wide body of natural scientific thought into an orderly fashion.

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Spine tips and edges lightly rubbed; plates offsetting to text; occasional spotting to interior; a few plate pages torn, not affecting images; very good or better.

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Early attempt to synthesize scientific thought

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