UID:
almafu_9959345486902883
Format:
1 online resource (xvi, 412 pages, 29 pages of plates) :
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1 online resource
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illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9780511782558
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0511782551
Series Statement:
Cambridge library collection. Life sciences
Content:
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707-1788) was a French mathematician who was considered one of the leading naturalists of the Enlightenment. An acquaintance of Voltaire and other intellectuals, he worked as Keeper at the Jardin du Roi from 1739, and this inspired him to research and publish a vast encyclopaedia and survey of natural history, the ground-breaking Histoire Naturelle, which he published in forty-four volumes between 1749 and 1804. These volumes, first published between 1770 and 1783 and translated into English in 1793, contain Buffon's survey and descriptions of birds from the Histoire Naturelle. Based on recorded observations of birds both in France and in other countries, these volumes provide detailed descriptions of various bird species, their habitats and behaviours. Volume 1 covers birds of prey and flightless birds.
Note:
Also issued in print: 2010.
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Originally published: London: A. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1793.
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Translated from the French.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108022989
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1108022987
Language:
English
