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BUFFON (Comte de) - 20 volumes of Buffon's works with black - Lot 231
BUFFON (Comte de) - 20 volumes of Buffon's works with black and white engravings, Minéraux 9 volumes including one on magnets, quadrupeds 5 volumes, birds 7 volumes. Paris, Imprimerie royale, 1783; in-12, approx. 400 pp. per volume, contemporary pink boards. All 20 volumes. Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon (1707-1788) began his career translating Newton. In 1738, during a session at the Académie, he made an enemy in Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau. The king appointed him intendant at the Jardin du roi (Jardin des Plantes) in 1739. Finally established, he devoted himself to Natural History, surrounding himself with the best scientists of his time.
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