Histoire Naturelle - OISEAUX - Buffon - 1779 - T 10
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M. de Buffon - intendant du Jardin du Roi, de l'académie française et celle des sciences...etc.
In Paris, royal printing house - 1779.
1 volume in-12 (17 * 10 cm) - volume 10 alone.
Period shine, ornate flat back, marbled edges. Worn top cover, one split hinge. Traces of foxing.
316pp - table [xlvi] - 7 plates.
Contained in this volume : among others, The Chickadee, The Grimpereaux, The American Guit-guits etc ...
You can find the biography and work of the Count of Buffon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges-Louis_Leclerc,_Comte_de_Buffon