suivies de ses continuateurs Daubenton, Lacépèd, Cuvier, Duméril, Poiret, Lesson et Geoffreoy-St-Hilaire;
seule edition complete avec figures coloriées Bruxelles
chez Th. Lejeune, Libraire-éditeurs, 1828-1833.

17x25 cm
14 textbooks in french and 6 books with lithographic prints with 2 lith. Portraits, 2 folding maps and 736 (of 373) mostly col. Lithographic prints

Half leather, marbled paper, labels on the spine, gild edging, edges worn, cover worn, a little torn, pages yellowed, wavy, buckles, and a little stained, browned on the outside margin, stains due to water spotting, some prints with marginal damages were cut and reattached, some leaves adhere, print 15 of book 1 is missing, endpapers with stamps and notes

complete edition: Théorie de la terre (Bd. 1-4), Histoire naturrelle de l'homme (Bd. 5), Mammifères (Bd. 1-10), Oiseuax (Bd. 11-14)

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (Sept.7, 1707 - April 16, 1788) was a French naturalist, mathematician, biologist, cosmologist and author. Buffon's views influenced the next two generations of naturalists, including Jean-Baptist Lamarck and Charles Darwin. Darwin himself, in his foreword to the 6th edition of the origin of Species, credited Aristotle with foreshadowing the concept of natural selection but also stated that "the first author who in modern times has treated it in a scientific spirit was Buffon". The Lycée Buffon in Paris is named after him. Buffon is best remembered for his great work Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière (1749-1778: in 36 volumes, 8 additional volumes published after his death by Lacépède). It included everything known about the natural world up until that date. He noted that despite similar environments, different regions have distinct plants and animals, a concept later known as Buffon's Law, widely considered the first principle of Biogeography. He made the radical conclusion that species must have both "improved" and "degenerated" (evolved) after dispersing away from a center of creation. He also asserted that climate change must have facilitated the worldwide spread of species from their center of origin.
(Source: Wikipedia)