Histoire naturelle des oiseaux, par le comte de Buffon, and, Les planches enluminées, systematically disposed.

Bibliographic Details
Main Creator: Pennant, Thomas, 1726-1798.
Contributors: Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788. Histoire naturelle des oiseaux.
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Format: Book
Language:English
Published / Created: London : Printed for B. White and Son ., 1786.
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Notes:Added engraved t.p.: Indexes to the Ornithologie of the Comte de Buffon and the Planches enluminées. London : Printed for Benj. White & Son, 1786.

Advertisement signed: Thomas Pennant.

The Catalogue of the birds, ... indexes [Planches enluminées d'histoire naturelle] by F. N. Martinet and E. L. Daubenton; these plates also known as "Daubenton's Planches enluminées" and as "Buffon's Planches enluminées", since they were produced at Buffon's instigation for his Histoire naturelle, see: Anker, J. Bird books, 76.

Signatures: A-Q⁴ R².

Press figures.

A list of Mr Pennant's Works: p. [123].

Includes bibliographical references.

Physical description: vii, [1], 122, [2] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill ; 26 cm. (4to)

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