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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 - 1781.
You can find the biography and work of the Count of Buffon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges-Louis_Leclerc,_Comte_de_Buffon