Engraving by Buffon - Natural History
From Balck Atlas of Œuvres Complètes de Buffon published in 1826
Birds
Engraving of Buffon - Black Atlas of Œuvres Complètes de Buffon
These engravings were published separately at the time, with the plates grouped together in portfolios called livraisons. The buyer was then free to have them bound together or framed.
Deliveries could be numerous, with around thirty engravings per delivery for this edition. The engravings shown here are from the 11th, 17th and 24th issues, which make up only a small part of Buffon's works.
Who was Buffon?
Georges Louis Leclerc, earl of BUFFON was born in Burgundy in 1707. He was a French naturalist, academician of science, mathematician, biologist, cosmologist, philosopher and writer. He is best known for his Histoire naturelle - Natural History
Published in Paris in 1826 by Baudouin Frères éditeurs and Delangle Libraire.
Dimensions: 15x23.5cm
Engravings are yellowed, stained and foxed.
You are buying 1 engraving and not the whole set.
Plate - Antique natural history engraving in color
XIXth century
botany - mushroom - snake - bird
Antique surgical board
From Benjamin Bell's Complete Course in Surgery, published in 1796
Voyage to the South Pole and Oceania on the corvettes the Astrolabe and the Zélée, executed by order of the king during the years 1837-1838-1839-1840 under the command of M. Dumont-d'Urville captain of vessel
Botanical plate
Published in 1846
Atlas of Natural History - Botany
Phanerogamy
Anatomy of Man by Cloquet
Anatomical lithography in black and white
The plates date from circa 1852
Stamp of the Franco-Belgian Literary and Artistic Convention of 22 August 1852
School canvas poster
Snake
Hagemann educational material publishing house in Düsseldorf
Printed in 1976
Botany plate by Édouard-Adolphe Duchesne
From the Atlas du Répertoire des plantes utiles et des plantes du globe published in 1846
19th-century color lithograph
Birds - Antique chart by D'Orbigny - 1869
In colors
Atlas of the Universal Dictionary of Natural History
Antique surgical board
From Benjamin Bell's Complete Course in Surgery, published in 1796
Ancient engraving - board of Natural History XIXth century.
In color. Mammals.
Antique surgical board
From Benjamin Bell's Complete Course in Surgery, published in 1796
Anatomic lithography: "Traité complet de l'Anatomie de l'Homme"
by Dr Bourgery and draughtsman Jacob
Volume 3 - 1844
Wall decoration of Pompeii - Herculaneum mosaics: Chromolithographic plate
By Wilhelm Zahn
Published between 1832 and 1849
Ancient engraving -board of Natural History in colour nineteenth century
In color. birds.
Painted botanical plate - Cryptogamy
Voyage to the South Pole and Oceania on the corvettes the Astrolabe and the Zélée, executed by order of the king during the years 1837-1838-1839-1840 under the command of M. Dumont-d'Urville captain of vessel
Published in 1846
Atlas of Natural History - Botany
Cryptogamy
Anatomy - Antique chart by D'Orbigny - 1869
In colors
Atlas of the Universal Dictionary of Natural History
Antique black and white natural history plate
Engraving by Buffon - Natural History
From Balck Atlas of Œuvres Complètes de Buffon published in 1826
Birds
