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Gallimard, Quarto. 2003. Broché in-8, 1504 pages.
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5 book(s) with the same title
Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière, avec la description du Cabinet du Roy (15 vols.) (+) Supplément à l'Histoire naturelle (6 vols) (+) Histoire naturelle des Oiseaux (9 vols) (+) Quadrupedes Ovipares et des Serpens (2 vols). 32 vols. - [FIRST ""COMPLETE SURVEY OF NATURAL HISTORY IN POPULAR FORM"" - PMM 198]
Paris, l' Imprimerie Royale, Plassan, 1749 - 1789. 4to (262 x 205 mm). Uniformly bound in 32 contemporary full sprinkled calf bindings with five raised bands and richly gilt spines. Leather tome- and title-labels to all volumes. Edges of boards gilt. Light wear to extremities primarily affecting head and foot of spines, corners bumped. Internally with light occassional, marginal brownspotting, but generally fine. With ""J. Collin"" (Danish zoologist Jonas Collin) to top margin of most front free end-papers. An overall nice set comprising the following:Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière (15 vols) - 578 plates and 2 maps.Supplément à l'Histoire naturelle (6 vols) - 141 plates and 2 maps.Histoire naturelle des Oiseaux (9 vols) - 257 plates.Quadrupedes Ovipares et des Serpens (2 vols) - 66 plates. A total of 1042 plates and 4 maps. Wanting the portrait. The complex collation of this work has not been accurately described by bibliographers. Nissen and Heilbrun differ in the listing of number of plates and misname the descriptions of the plates.
First edition of this extensive landmark work in natural science. Together with Diderot's Encyclopaedia, this work represents the peak of book printing of the French enlightenment. Buffon was the first to sum up an entire natural history, based on science instead of theology"" It constitutes one of the first attempts to provide a comprehensive account of the natural world aiming at describing the entire known natural world - including plants, animals, and minerals - in a single work. Buffon based his work on first-hand observations and scientific analysis, rather than on second-hand accounts or mythological beliefs, making it a seminal work in the development of modern science. ""Buffon's ""Natural History, General and Particular"" presented for the first time a complete survey of natural history in a popular form [...] he was the first to present the universe as one complete whole and to find no phenomenon calling for any but a purely scientific explanation. In 1739, he was appointed Director of the Jardin du Roi (now Jardin des Plantes). It would appear that the 'Natural History germinated in the preparation of a catalogue of the royal collection. Buffon then enlarged its scope to Aristotelian or Plinian proportions and finally transformed it into a conspectus of nature of a breadth and depth previously unknown"". […] he was the first to present the universe as one complete whole and to find no phenomenon calling for any but a purely scientific explanation."" (PMM). Buffon's work had a significant impact upon the field of natural history and influenced many other scientists, including Charles Darwin"" In a part of the work, (""Des Epoqeus de la Nature"" (Supplement vol. V, 1778, present here)), Buffon attacked several Christian doctrines on natural science. He saw man as a part of the animal world, he objected to earth being only 6000 years old, and he dismissed a rigid classification system thus paving the way for Darwin's thoughts a century later:""Georges Buffon set forth his general views on species classification in the first volume of his Histoire Naturelle. Buffon objected to the so-called ""artificial"" classifications of Andrea Cesalpino and Carolus Linnaeus, stating that in nature the chain of life has small gradations from one type to another and that the discontinuous categories are all artificially constructed by mankind. Buffon suggested that all organic species may have descended form a small number of primordial types"" this is an evolution predominantly from more perfect to less perfect forms."" (Parkinson, Breakthroughs). ""Buffon's work is of exceptional importance because of its diversity, richness, originality, and influence. Buffon was among the first to create an autonomous science, free of any theological influence. He emphasized the importance of natural history and the great length of geological time. He envisioned the nature of science and understood the roles of paleontology, zoological geography, and animal psychology. He realised both the necessity of transformism and its difficulties. Although his cosmogony was inadequate and his theory of animal reproduction was weak, and although he did not understand the problem of classification, he did establish the intellectual framework within which most naturalists up to Darwin worked."" (DSB) From the library of Danish zoologist Jonas Collin (1840-1905), who issued a new edition of Kjærbølling's ""The Birds of Scandinavia"" in 1875-1877 (See Anker 251) - a work most likely inspired by his knowledge from his (i.e. the present) copy of Buffon's ""Histoire Naturelle"".The 'Histoire Générale' was widely reprinted and translated. Sometimes only individual sections were produced, other times the complete work appeared. PMM 198.Nissen 672.Brunet I, 376.Dibner 193.Sparrow p. 23.Anker 6.
Histoire du Consulat. Édition illustrée de soixante-dix Dessins. + Histoire de L'Empire faisant Suite a L'Histoire du Consulat. Édition illustrée de deux cent quatre-vingts Dessins. 4 Vols. + Histoire de la Révolution Francaise. Nouvelle Édition. D...
Paris, Lheureux et Cie, 1865-67. 4to. Bound in 7 contemporary uniform hcalf. Gilt backs. Tome-and titlelabels in red leather. Backs lightly rubbed. The first volume with small tears to spine ends. Ca. 5000 pp. Richly illustrated with woodcuts in the text.
Voyages, Relations et Mémoires originaux pour servir a L'Histoire de la Découverte de l'Amerique, publiés pour la première Fois en Francais. Vol. 1-6.
Paris, Arthur Bertrand, 1837. Bound in 2 contemp hcalf, but not in the right order. Richly gilt spines.
Containing importent printed source material relating to the discovery of America.Vol. 1. Federman, Nicolas. Narration du premier Voyage... 1557. 227 pp.Vol. 2. Magalhanes de gandavo. Histoire de la Province de sancta-Cruz... Brasil. 1576. 162 pp.Vol. 3. Staden de Homberg. Véritable Histoire et Déscription d'un pays habité par des Hommes sauvages... nimmé Amérique. 1557. 335 pp.Vol. 4. Xérés, F. relation véridique de la Conquête de Pérou... 1547. 198 pp.Vol. 5. Schmidel de Straubing. Histoire véritable d'un Voyage curieux dans l'Amerique et le nouveau Monde... 1534-1554. 264 pp.Vol. 6. Nunez Cabeca de Vaca. Commentaires... 1555. 507 pp. Sabin, 94856, but also with separate numbers as they were published separately.
Savant (Jean). De l'Académie d'histoire; Castelnau (Jacques); Cerf (Marcel;
Reference : 15189
Cahiers de l'Académie d'Histoire. L'Histoire inédite. Ensemble bien complet de 30 fascicules brochés de format in 8°; consacré aux personnages souvent méconnus de l'époque Napoléonienne; à Balzac; à la Commune de Paris; à Napoléon III; à la Révolution Française.
Paris Jean Savant 1970 à 1972 30 Les volumes sont regroupés par dizaine; chacune est contenue dans une chemise s'insérant dans un étui titré de l'éditeur. Les deux premiers étuis sont orange et le dernier vert Empire. Chaque fascicule a une pagination variable allant de 50 pp. à 100 pp.. De nombreux fascicules contiennent des reproductions de documents autographes, lettres, dépêches...
Infimes défauts aux étuis; les 30 documents sont en état de neuf. Voir les photos. Rarement complet car édité sur plusieurs années.
Leçons de Morale, de Politique et de Droit Public, puisées dans l'Histoire de notre Monarchie. Ou Nouveau Plan d'Etude de L'Histoire de France. Rédigé par les ordres et d'après les vues de feu Monseigneur Le Dauphin, pour l'instruction des Princes ses Enfants. Suivi de Lettre à M. Le P. H. sur l'objet moral de l'étude de l'histoire.
Versailles Imprimerie du Départ, Des Affaires Etrangéres. 1773 1 Un volume de format petit in 8° de XII pp. ( titre, épitre dédicatoire); 204 pp.. Reliure de l'époque en pleine basane tabac, marbrée; dos lisse richement orné, titre doré sur pièce de cuir brun. Tranches rouges. Bandeaux gravé. Lettrines...
Première et seule édition de l'époque, dédiée au futur Louis XVI. Rare édition de cette Imprimerie Versaillaises dont l'existence fut abrégée par la révolution. Discrète trace de vers sur un plat ; plus importante au second plat avec départ de fente. Voir les photos.
