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No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. A fine original copper engraved portrait. Mounted and ready to frame. A splended opportunity to purchase a portrait of this eminent personage. Engraved By Cooke (illustrator).

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. An excellent original engraving. Mounted and ready to frame, this is an excellent opportunity to purchase this splendid portrait. From an original picture by Drouais in the collection of the Institute of France. Published "under the supervision of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge". Engraved By Hart (illustrator).…

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. A fine original steel engraving. Mounted and ready to frame. ca 1850. An excellent opportunity to purchase this splendid portrait of this famous personage. From an original picture by Drouais in the collection of the Institute of France. Engraved By Hart (illustrator).…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface.We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. A splendid antique engraved portrait. Mounted and ready to frame. This is an excellent opportunity to purchase an very decorative and attractive antique portrait. Circa 1770.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Imperial 8vo. pp 140-156, extract from Mmoires de l'Acadmie Royale des Sciences (17 pages, complete as issued). In attractive probably 1930s binding by W. H. Smith & Son Ltd., green cloth, front cover lettered in gilt; tailpiece. Inscribed "1932" on front pastedown. VG indeed. An important paper on forest conservation by the pioneering naturalist, the Comte de Buffon (1707-88), who was also an encyclopediste, cosmologist and mathematician. Very good indeed.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Imperial 8vo. pp 233-46, extract from Mmoires de l'Acadmie Royale des Sciences (14 pages, complete as issued). In attractive ?1930s binding by W. H. Smith & Son Ltd., green cloth, front cover lettered in gilt; tailpiece. Inscribed "1932" on front pastedown. Browning to margins at top and bottom of pages in places. VG. An important paper on forest conservation by the pioneering naturalist, the Comte de Buffon (1707-88), who was also an encyclopediste, cosmologist and mathematician. Very good indeed.…

Couverture rigide. Chez Debure l'aîné Chez les héritiers Cramer et Frères Philibert | Paris & Genève 1735 et 1744 | 19 x 25 cm | 2 ouvrages reliés en un volume | Edition originale de la traduction française de ces deux textes de Stephen Hales. La traduction du premier ouvrage, originellement intituléVegetable Staticks paru en 1727, est le premier texte publié par Buffon. La traduction du second du livre, paru à l'origine sous le titre d'Haemastaticksen 1733, est l'oeuvre de François Boissier de Sauvages. Notre exemplaire est bien complet de ses 20 figures gravées sur 10 planches dépliantes pour le premier texte et de sa planche dépliante in-fine pour le second. Reliure de l'époque en pleine basane blonde mouchetée, dos à cinq nerfs richement orné de caissons, roulettes et fleurons dorés ainsi que d'une pièce de titre de maroquin havane, gardes et contreplats de papier à la cuve, toutes tranches mouchetées de rouge. Coiffe de tête et deux coins habilement restaurés. Quelques feuillets un peu brunis. Rares éditions originales françaises de ces deux texte d'Hales, fondateur de la physiologie expérimentale moderne. LaStatique des végétauxdécrit cent vingt-quatre expériences sur la physiologie des plantes. Buffon la fait précéder d'une importante «préface du traducteur» dans laquelle il fait l'éloge non seulement de Hales («Je ne connais rien de mieux dans son genre, et le genre par lui-même est excellent.») mais surtout de l'expérience scientifique, emblème de l'émergence de la science moderne: «Amassons-donc toujours des expériences, et éloignons nous, s'il est possible, de tout esprit de système, du moins jusqu'à ce que nous soyons instruits [.] c'est cette méthode que mon auteur a suivie; c'est celle du grand Newton; c'est celle que Messieurs de Verulam, Galilée, Boyle, Sthall [Stahl] ont recommandée et embrassée, c'est celle que l'Académie des Sciences s'est fait une loi d'adopter [.] » Les planches, dont l'exécution est d'une très grande finesse, montrent les machines inventées (notamment sa fameuse cuve à eau) et procédés utilisés par Hales pour mettre en évidence la circulation de la sève et la production de gaz des végétaux qu'il étudie. Le second traité s'intéresse quant à lui, dans la lignée des recherches de William Harvey et Marcello Malpighi, à la circulation sanguine. C'est dans cet ouvrage qu'Hales relate son expérience de la pression artérielle grâce à l'une de ses inventions, ancêtre du tensiomètre. | [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION FOLLOWS] First edition of the French translation of these two texts by Stephen Hales. The translation of the first work, originally entitled Vegetable Staticks published in 1727, is the first text published by Buffon. The translation of the second work, originally issued under the title Haemastaticks in 1733, is by François Boissier de Sauvages. Our copy is complete with its 20 engraved figures on 10 folding plates for the first text and its folding plate at the end for the second. Contemporary full speckled blond sheep, spine in five raised bands richly decorated with gilt compartments, rolls and fleurons, with a havana morocco title label, marbled endpapers, all edges speckled red. Headcap and two corners skilfully restored. A few leaves slightly browned. Rare French first editions of these two texts by Hales, founder of modern experimental physiology. The Statique des végétaux describes one hundred and twenty-four experiments on plant physiology. Buffon precedes it with an important "préface du traducteur" in which he praises not only Hales ("Je ne connais rien de mieux dans son genre, et le genre par lui-même est excellent.") but above all scientific experiment, emblematic of the emergence of modern science: "Amassons-donc toujours des expériences, et éloignons nous, s'il est possible, de tout esprit de système, du moins jusqu'à ce que nous soyons instruits [.] c'est cette méthode que mon auteur a suivie ; c'est celle du grand Newton ; c'est celle que Messieurs de Verulam, Galilée, Boyle, St xviij (7 p.) 408 pp. (2 p.) et xxii ; 348 pp.…

1 volume grand in-8° relié demi-chagrin rouge, dos à nerfs, dos décoré d'encadrements de filets dorés, tranches dorées, plats de toile chagrinée. III - 647 p., gravures dans et hors-texte. Rousseurs éparses. Toile chagrinée un peu usagée sans gravité. Bel exemplaire.

First edition. The Founding Treatise of Secular Science. First edition of the first work to present natural history as a continuous secular narrative, from planetary formation to the human races, and the work in which, across fifty-five years and four political regimes, the biblical chronology that had organised European natural science since antiquity ceased to be the only frame within which educated readers could discuss the age of the earth. Ernst Mayr called Buffon "the father of all thought in natural history" at his time; the DSB records that he "established the intellectual framework within which most naturalists up to Darwin worked." Buffon was appointed Intendant du Jardin du Roi in 1739 at thirty-two, and spent nearly half a century converting the royal cabinet of natural-history specimens into a compendium. At its close under Lacépède's hand in 1804 it comprised forty-four quarto volumes, more than twelve hundred engraved plates, and a style so supple that Buffon's elegies on individual species remained set texts in French lycées into the twentieth century. Uniformly bound in contemporary French mottled calf and preserving all forty-four text volumes together with the separately-issued and frequently-absent atlas to the Minéraux, the present copy is of a completeness and coherence uncommon in a publication whose fifty-five-year issue spanned four successive Parisian imprints. Within thirty years of the final volume Lyell was writing the Principles of Geology; within sixty, Darwin the Origin. The publishing history ran for fifty-five years through four imprints. The first three volumes appeared together in the autumn of 1749 from the Imprimerie Royale, sold out in six weeks, were reprinted three times within the same interval, and provoked the Sorbonne's faculty of theology into delivering Buffon a list of propositions judged heretical-to which Buffon submitted a carefully calibrated retraction while continuing to print the offending volumes unchanged. The initial prospectus of 1748 had promised fifteen volumes in three divisions; by the time Buffon died in 1788 thirty-five were in print, a thirty-sixth was on the press, and the plan of covering the vegetable kingdom had quietly been abandoned. The seventh and final Supplément appeared posthumously in 1789 through Lacépède's editorship; the fifth volume of the Minéraux, containing the Traité de l'aimant, had issued a year earlier from the Imprimerie des Bâtimens du Roi and was accompanied by a separately-issued atlas of folding maps and tables. Lacépède then continued the animal-kingdom programme with the Quadrupèdes ovipares et Serpens (1788-89), the Poissons (1798-An XII) and the Cétacées (1804). The combined output of four imprints across three generations of Parisian printers-the Imprimerie Royale, the Imprimerie des Bâtimens du Roi, the Hôtel de Thou under Panckoucke and Plassan, and Plassan imprimeur-libraire-is the reason a uniformly-bound contemporary set is uncommon. Volume I opens the series with the Premier Discours: De la manière d'étudier et de traiter l'histoire naturelle, a forty-page polemic against Linnaean classification that argues, from a position of mathematical and empirical rigour rare in the literature of the period, that species as Linnaeus conceived them were artificial abstractions imposed on the continuous variability of individuals, and that a taxonomy built on stamen-counts and pistil-counts did not correspond to nature. The attack was political as well as philosophical. Linnaeus's Systema Naturae (Leiden, 1735) had already been adopted as the common grammar of European zoology; Buffon's Discours, delivered from within the most prestigious press in France, asserted that the Swede's method was a convenience of memory mistaken for a description of the world. The volume continues with the Second Discours: Histoire et théorie de la Terre, dated by Buffon himself "à Montbard le 3 octobre 1744," which proposes a cosmogony in which the planets were struck from the sun by the oblique impact of a comet and have been cooling ever since, and with the Preuves de la théorie de la Terre, in which Buffon develops his theory across seventeen articles and provides two engraved terrestrial maps drawn under his supervision by Robert de Vaugondy fils. These arguments, delivered within a volume bearing the royal arms of France on its title-page vignette, constituted a public challenge to Mosaic cosmogony. The geological argument reached its mature form a generation later in the fifth Supplément, the Époques de la Nature (1778), published when Buffon was seventy-one. Here he proposed seven epochs of the earth's history, estimated their combined duration at roughly 75,000 years, and in unpublished manuscript notes pushed his private estimate to three million-an order of magnitude consistent with the timescales that Lyell would later extract from stratigraphy and that Darwin would require for natural selection to operate. Beyond the number, the Époques argues by accumulation: Buffon marshals fossil molluscs at Alpine altitudes, the decay of volcanic emissions, the rate at which heated iron spheres cool in Buffon's own forge at Montbard, and the distribution of living species across climate zones, and weaves these into a cumulative inductive case in which each line of evidence corroborates the others. The technique is no longer antiquarian but probabilistic; Buffon had published a French translation of Newton's Method of Fluxions in 1740, and would publish original work on geometric probability. When the Époques reached Edinburgh and Cambridge in the 1780s, it announced to Anglophone readers that the earth's antiquity had become a quantitative problem rather than a scriptural one. The core of the programme is the animal kingdom. Volumes 4 through 15 (1753-1767) treat the quadrupeds, in an arrangement that combines Buffon's natural-historical essays with Daubenton's anatomical descriptions-a division of labour Buffon defended in the Prefa.…

in Venezia, dalle stampe dei Fratelli Bassaglia, a spese di Antonio Zatta, 1788 - 1790, volumi 4 (sui 17 dedicati all'ornitologia), in-12, cartoncino celeste coevo con titolo su tassello in carta ai dorsi, pp. (2), 278; (2), IV, 327, (3); 400, (6); 432. Marca tipografica ai frontespizii (fontana zampillante in giardino, motto: "plus pressa plus surgit auxilium ab alto") incisa all'acquaforte da Giuliano Zuliani, iniziali e fregi in xilografia. Solo 3 tavole a colori. Pochi fori di tarlo. Volume 7° scompleto, mancanze al dorso, alla copertina posteriore e all'angolo superiore delle ultime 4 carte (Indice e catalogo Zatta), con perdita di testo. Asportate le carte F4-G1.…