Description: A Natural History, 1817 2 vol in one Buffon hand colored plates published by Richard Evans 1817 it has a stamp of 1830 at top of title page of volume one and the name James Stephenson. that stamp is not on volume two. 1817 two-volume in one edition, of the first English translation of Buffon’s magnum opus, with the important translation of Scottish naturalist William Smellie, this corrected and enlarged edition also featuring Chambers’ History of Birds, Fishes, Reptiles and Insects, with frontispiece of Buffon, containing 50+ beautiful hand-colored engravings, (including the often missing white negro plate). I could never break apart a book for prints but elsewhere there prints sell for $75.00 each....and there are more than 50 of them. “Natural history, prior to Buffon, had all the earmarks of an avocation, a hobby. Buffon is the one who raised it to the status of a science” (Mayr, 336). First translated into English in 1781 this work of Buffon provides, for the first time, “a complete survey of natural history in a popular form… in which he outlines a satisfactory account of the history of our globe… His belief in the mutability of species implied clearly some preparation for the thought of Darwin… Buffon was the first to present the universe as one complete whole and to find no phenomenon calling for any but a purely scientific explanation”
Price: 360 USD
Location: Miami, Florida
End Time: 2024-10-26T02:17:35.000Z
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Binding: Leather
Language: English
Special Attributes: Illustrated
Author: Buffon
Publisher: evans
Topic: natural history
Subject: nature
Original/Facsimile: Original
