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Paperback or Softback. Condizione: New. The History of Singing Birds: Containing an Exact Description of Their Habits & Customs, & Their Manner of Constructing Their Nests, Their Times of. Book.

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No Binding. Condizione: Very Good. A fine original copper engraved portrait. Mounted and ready to frame. A splended opportunity to purchase a portrait of this eminent personage. Engraved By Cooke (illustratore).

No Binding. Condizione: Very Good. An excellent original engraving. Mounted and ready to frame, this is an excellent opportunity to purchase this splendid portrait. From an original picture by Drouais in the collection of the Institute of France. Published "under the supervision of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge". Engraved By Hart (illustratore).…

No Binding. Condizione: Very Good. A fine original steel engraving. Mounted and ready to frame. ca 1850. An excellent opportunity to purchase this splendid portrait of this famous personage. From an original picture by Drouais in the collection of the Institute of France. Engraved By Hart (illustratore).…

No Binding. Condizione: Very Good. A splendid antique engraved portrait. Mounted and ready to frame. This is an excellent opportunity to purchase an very decorative and attractive antique portrait. Circa 1770.

No Binding. Condizione: Very Good. A fine original engraved portrait. Mounted and ready to frame. This is an excellent opportunity to purchase a portrait of this eminent personage.

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No Binding. Condizione: Very Good. A fine engraved portrait. Mounted/matted and ready to frame. Attractive, decorative and unusual.

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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Imperial 8vo. pp 140-156, extract from Mmoires de l'Acadmie Royale des Sciences (17 pages, complete as issued). In attractive probably 1930s binding by W. H. Smith & Son Ltd., green cloth, front cover lettered in gilt; tailpiece. Inscribed "1932" on front pastedown. VG indeed. An important paper on forest conservation by the pioneering naturalist, the Comte de Buffon (1707-88), who was also an encyclopediste, cosmologist and mathematician. Very good indeed.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Imperial 8vo. pp 233-46, extract from Mmoires de l'Acadmie Royale des Sciences (14 pages, complete as issued). In attractive ?1930s binding by W. H. Smith & Son Ltd., green cloth, front cover lettered in gilt; tailpiece. Inscribed "1932" on front pastedown. Browning to margins at top and bottom of pages in places. VG. An important paper on forest conservation by the pioneering naturalist, the Comte de Buffon (1707-88), who was also an encyclopediste, cosmologist and mathematician. Very good indeed.…

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25/26 VOLUMES IN-8 (13,5 X 21 CENTIMETRES ENVIRON), UNIQUEMENT DES OEUVRES DE BUFFON, SANS LES 2 VOLUMES DU SUPPLEMENT DONNE PAR CUVIER, RELIURE D'EPOQUE 1/2 CHAGRIN HAVANE, DOS A QUATRE LEGERS NERFS, TITRE DORE. IL MANQUE LE TOME 7 (MINERAUX 4).L?IMPORTANTE TABLE GENERALE A ETE RELIEE EN FIN DU DERNIER VOLUMEILLUSTRE D'UN PORTRAIT DE BUFFON EN FRONTISPICE ET DE 236 PLANCHES HORS TEXTE, DONT 224 EN COULEURS (COLLATIONNE, BIEN COMPLET DE TOUTES SES PLANCHES). QUELQUES DEFAUTS EXTERIEURS, ROUSSEURS HABITUELLES, QUELQUES TRACES DE MOUILLURE ANCIENNE. PRIX ETABLI EN FONCTION DES DEFAUTS SIGNALES.…

6 VOLUMES IN-8 (18 X 26,5 X 29,5 CENTIMETRES ENVIRON) DE (4) + 782, (4) + 775, (4) + 726, (4) + 784, (4) + 653 ET 732 PAGES, RELIURE D'EPOQUE 1/2 VEAU VERT, DOS LISSE ORNE DE FILETS DORES, TITRE DORE. (LE TOME 6 A ETE RELIE D?ORIGINE SANS SES FEUILLETS DE TITRE ET FAUX-TITRE). ILLUSTRE HORS TEXTE D?UN PORTAIT DE BUFFON ET DE 122 PLANCHES EN COULEURS GOMMEES ET REHAUSSEES A LA MAIN. LES VOLUMES 5 ET 6 CONSACRES AUX OISEAUX SONT ILLUSTRES PAR TRAVIES. (COLLATIONNE, BIEN COMPLET DE TOUTES SES PLANCHES). LE FEUILLET DE TABLE DES GRAVURES FORMANT LES PAGES 731-732 A ETE PLACEE PAR ERREUR PAR LE RELIEUR ENTRE LES PAGES 728-729. QUELQUES DEFAUTS EXTERIEURS, QUELQUES TRACES D?HUMIDITE ANCIENNE. PRIX ETABLI EN FONCTION DES DEFAUTS SIGNALES.…

2 VOLUMES IN-12 (10,5 X 17 X 6,5 CENTIMETRES) DE XII + 531 ET (4) + 400 PAGES, RELIURE D'EPOQUE PLEIN VEAU HAVANE MARBRE, DOS A CINQ NERFS JOLIMENT ORNE D'UN DECOR DE FLEURONS DORES, TITRE DORE SUR ETIQUETTE MAROQUIN HAVANE, FILET DORE SUR COUPES, TRANCHES ROUGES. INFIME PETITE PIQURE DE VER EN MARGE HAUTE SUPERIEURE DE QUELQUES PAGES DU TOME I, AINSI QU?EN MARGE INFERIEURE DU TOME II, SANS AUCUNE GRAVITE, POUR LE RESTE INTERIEUR TRES FRAIS, TRES BEL EXEMPLAIRE.…

Couverture rigide. Chez Debure l'aîné Chez les héritiers Cramer et Frères Philibert | Paris & Genève 1735 et 1744 | 19 x 25 cm | 2 ouvrages reliés en un volume | Edition originale de la traduction française de ces deux textes de Stephen Hales. La traduction du premier ouvrage, originellement intituléVegetable Staticks paru en 1727, est le premier texte publié par Buffon. La traduction du second du livre, paru à l'origine sous le titre d'Haemastaticksen 1733, est l'oeuvre de François Boissier de Sauvages. Notre exemplaire est bien complet de ses 20 figures gravées sur 10 planches dépliantes pour le premier texte et de sa planche dépliante in-fine pour le second. Reliure de l'époque en pleine basane blonde mouchetée, dos à cinq nerfs richement orné de caissons, roulettes et fleurons dorés ainsi que d'une pièce de titre de maroquin havane, gardes et contreplats de papier à la cuve, toutes tranches mouchetées de rouge. Coiffe de tête et deux coins habilement restaurés. Quelques feuillets un peu brunis. Rares éditions originales françaises de ces deux texte d'Hales, fondateur de la physiologie expérimentale moderne. LaStatique des végétauxdécrit cent vingt-quatre expériences sur la physiologie des plantes. Buffon la fait précéder d'une importante «préface du traducteur» dans laquelle il fait l'éloge non seulement de Hales («Je ne connais rien de mieux dans son genre, et le genre par lui-même est excellent.») mais surtout de l'expérience scientifique, emblème de l'émergence de la science moderne: «Amassons-donc toujours des expériences, et éloignons nous, s'il est possible, de tout esprit de système, du moins jusqu'à ce que nous soyons instruits [.] c'est cette méthode que mon auteur a suivie; c'est celle du grand Newton; c'est celle que Messieurs de Verulam, Galilée, Boyle, Sthall [Stahl] ont recommandée et embrassée, c'est celle que l'Académie des Sciences s'est fait une loi d'adopter [.] » Les planches, dont l'exécution est d'une très grande finesse, montrent les machines inventées (notamment sa fameuse cuve à eau) et procédés utilisés par Hales pour mettre en évidence la circulation de la sève et la production de gaz des végétaux qu'il étudie. Le second traité s'intéresse quant à lui, dans la lignée des recherches de William Harvey et Marcello Malpighi, à la circulation sanguine. C'est dans cet ouvrage qu'Hales relate son expérience de la pression artérielle grâce à l'une de ses inventions, ancêtre du tensiomètre. | [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION FOLLOWS] First edition of the French translation of these two texts by Stephen Hales. The translation of the first work, originally entitled Vegetable Staticks published in 1727, is the first text published by Buffon. The translation of the second work, originally issued under the title Haemastaticks in 1733, is by François Boissier de Sauvages. Our copy is complete with its 20 engraved figures on 10 folding plates for the first text and its folding plate at the end for the second. Contemporary full speckled blond sheep, spine in five raised bands richly decorated with gilt compartments, rolls and fleurons, with a havana morocco title label, marbled endpapers, all edges speckled red. Headcap and two corners skilfully restored. A few leaves slightly browned. Rare French first editions of these two texts by Hales, founder of modern experimental physiology. The Statique des végétaux describes one hundred and twenty-four experiments on plant physiology. Buffon precedes it with an important "préface du traducteur" in which he praises not only Hales ("Je ne connais rien de mieux dans son genre, et le genre par lui-même est excellent.") but above all scientific experiment, emblematic of the emergence of modern science: "Amassons-donc toujours des expériences, et éloignons nous, s'il est possible, de tout esprit de système, du moins jusqu'à ce que nous soyons instruits [.] c'est cette méthode que mon auteur a suivie ; c'est celle du grand Newton ; c'est celle que Messieurs de Verulam, Galilée, Boyle, St xviij (7 p.) 408.…

Paperback / softback. Condizione: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.

1 volume grand in-8° relié demi-chagrin rouge, dos à nerfs, dos décoré d'encadrements de filets dorés, tranches dorées, plats de toile chagrinée. III - 647 p., gravures dans et hors-texte. Rousseurs éparses. Toile chagrinée un peu usagée sans gravité. Bel exemplaire.

First edition. The Founding Treatise of Secular Science. First edition of the first work to present natural history as a continuous secular narrative-from planetary formation through geology and mineralogy to the quadrupeds, birds, fishes, and cetaceans, and at last to the human races-and the work in which, across fifty-five years and four political regimes, the biblical chronology that had organised European natural science since antiquity ceased to be the only frame within which educated readers could discuss the age of the earth. Buffon was appointed Intendant du Jardin du Roi in 1739 at thirty-two, and spent nearly half a century converting the royal cabinet of natural-history specimens into a compendium that, at its close under Lacépède's hand in 1804, comprised forty-four quarto volumes, more than twelve hundred engraved plates, and a style so supple that Buffon's elegies on individual species remained set texts in French lycées into the twentieth century. Uniformly bound in contemporary French mottled calf and preserving all forty-four text volumes together with the separately-issued and frequently-absent atlas to the Minéraux, the present copy is of a completeness and coherence uncommon in a publication whose fifty-five-year issue spanned four successive Parisian imprints. His prose made deep time habitable. Within thirty years of the final volume Lyell was writing the Principles of Geology; within sixty, Darwin the Origin. Ernst Mayr called Buffon "the father of all thought in natural history" at his time; the DSB records that he "established the intellectual framework within which most naturalists up to Darwin worked." The publishing history is itself a monument. The first three volumes appeared together in the autumn of 1749 from the Imprimerie Royale, sold out in six weeks, were reprinted three times within the same interval, and provoked the Sorbonne's faculty of theology into delivering Buffon a list of propositions judged heretical-to which Buffon submitted a carefully calibrated retraction while continuing to print the offending volumes unchanged. The initial prospectus of 1748 had promised fifteen volumes in three divisions; by the time Buffon died in 1788 thirty-five were in print, a thirty-sixth was on the press, and the plan of covering the vegetable kingdom had quietly been abandoned. The seventh and final Supplément appeared posthumously in 1789 through Lacépède's editorship; the fifth volume of the Minéraux, containing the Traité de l'aimant, had issued a year earlier from the Imprimerie des Bâtimens du Roi and was accompanied by a separately-issued atlas of folding maps and tables. Lacépède then continued the animal-kingdom programme with the Quadrupèdes ovipares et Serpens (1788-89), the Poissons (1798-An XII) and the Cétacées (1804). The combined output of four imprints across three generations of Parisian printers-the Imprimerie Royale, the Imprimerie des Bâtimens du Roi, the Hôtel de Thou under Panckoucke and Plassan, and Plassan imprimeur-libraire-makes the uniformly-bound contemporary set one of the more elusive bibliographical objects of the French Enlightenment. Volume I opens the series with the Premier Discours: De la manière d'étudier et de traiter l'histoire naturelle, a forty-page frontal assault on Linnaean classification that argues, from a position of mathematical and empirical rigour rare in the literature of the period, that species as Linnaeus conceived them were artificial abstractions imposed on the continuous variability of individuals, and that a taxonomy built on stamen-counts and pistil-counts had no purchase on nature. The attack was political as well as philosophical. Linnaeus's Systema Naturae (Leiden, 1735) had already been adopted as the common grammar of European zoology; Buffon's Discours, delivered from within the most prestigious press in France, asserted that the Swede's method was a convenience of memory mistaken for a description of the world. The volume continues with the Second D.…

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LeatherBound. Condizione: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1775 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 284 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 284 Volume 2 Language: German.…

LeatherBound. Condizione: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1775 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 316 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 316 Volume 4 Language: German.…

LeatherBound. Condizione: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1775 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 316 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 316 Volume 1 Language: German.…

LeatherBound. Condizione: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1775 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 313 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 313 Volume 6 Language: German.…

LeatherBound. Condizione: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1775 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 278 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 278 Volume 3 Language: German.…

LeatherBound. Condizione: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1785 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 334 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 334 Volume 7 (1785) Language: French.…

LeatherBound. Condizione: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1785 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 338 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 338 Volume 5 (1785) Language: French.…

LeatherBound. Condizione: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1785 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 338 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 338 Volume 6 (1785) Language: French.…