[Boyle Bernard, Richard (Dean of Leighlin)] Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de.

Buffon’s Natural History, Abridged – Including the History of the Elements, The Earth, Mountains, Rivers, Seas, Winds, Whirlwinds, Waterspouts, Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Man, Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, Shellfish, Lizards, Serpents, Insects & Vegetables. Illustrated with Great Variety of Copper Plates. With 106 [of 107 Plates] in absolutely stunning condition, spread throughout the two Volumes. Including the two often missing and very rare fold-out-plates of Snakes.

Two Volumes (complete set). London, Published as the Act directs for C. & G. Kearlsey, Fleet Street, 1792. Octavo (15 cm x 21,5 cm). Volume I: Frontispice [″Nature lamenting over the Tomb of M. de Buffon & exhibiting a Portrait of that distinguished Naturalist”], Engraved Titlepage [with a scene of grieving onlookers to the outbreak of the Volcano / Mount Vesuvius], XXXVII, Errata-Leaf, 353 pages / Volume II: Engraved Titlepage [with a scene of fowling at the steep cliffs of St.Kilda)], 494 pages including a thorough Index. With 106 [of 107 Plates] spread throughout the two Volumes. Including the two often missing and very rare fold-out-plates of Snakes. Hardcover / One Volume rebound to style and one Volume in its original 18th century full leather. Original bookplate / Exlibris of Dean Richard Boyle Bernard, Dean of Leighlin and MP for Bandon Bridge to pastedown of Volume I. Both Volumes now housed in a bespoke built Solander Box. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

Includes the Following Tables and Plates with Illustration and Engraving of Animals, Humans, Birds, Snakes etc.:

Volume I:

Frontispice: [″Nature lamenting over the Tomb of M. de Buffon & exhibiting a Portrait of that distinguished Naturalist”]
Engraved Titlepage: [″Scene of grieving onlookers to the outbreak of the Volcano / Mount Vesuvius”]

- Table of the Probabilities of the Duration of Life

Plate 1: [Ethnology] Chinese / Laplander / Hottentot / Negro / American (Native American)
Plate 2: [Ethnology] White Negress / Helen & Judith (Siamese Twins) / Anna Maria Herig
Plate 3: The Horse / The Bull / The Ass
Plate 4: The Ram / The Sheep / The Fox
Plate 5: The Female Goat of Angora / Goat of Angora / The Syrian Goat
Plate 6: The Wild Boar / The Hog of Siam / The Otter / Another Otter / The Pole Cat
Plate 7: Angora Cat / Shock Dog / Lion Dog / Shepherd Dog
Plate 8: Hind or Female Red-Deer / Stag, Hart or Red-Deer / Fallow Deer
Plate 9: The Badger / The Ermine / The Long tail’d Squirrel / Short tail’d Field Mouse / The Water Rat / Long tail’d Field Mouse
Plate 10: Water Shrew / Shrew Mouse / Garden Squirrel / Dormouse / Animal of the Bear Species /
Plate 11: Guinea Pig / Squirrel / The Bat / The Bat as it Flies / The Mole / The Brown Rat
Plate 12: The Marmot / The Brown Bear / The White Bear
Plate 13: The Beaver / The Racoon / The Brown Coati / The Black Coati / Another Black Coati
Plate 14: The Lion / The Lioness / The Tiger
Plate 15: Panther / Ounce / Leopard / Wolf
Plate 16: Jaguar / Cougar / Spotted Hyena
Plate 17: Lynx / Caraca / Hyaena / Genet
Plate 18: Zibet / The Civet Cat / The Peccary / The little Grey Squirrel / The Palm Squirrel
Plate 19: The Great Ternat Bat / The Lesser Ternat Bat / The Unan / The Agouti
Plate 20: The Flying Squirrel / Pangolin / Armadillo
Plate 21: The Paca / Cayopollin / The Male Opossum / Female Oppossum / Marmose / Hedge Hog with and without Bristles
Plate 22: The Elephant / The Rhinocerous / The Juda Goat /
Plate 23: The Camel / The Dromedary / The Buffalo
Plate 24: The Iceland Ram / The Bison / The Gnu
Plate 25: The Walachian Ram / The Walachian Sheep
Plate 26: The Zebu / The Male Goat / The Female Goat / The Elk
Plate 27: American Wild Ox / Buck of Juda / Female Rein Deer / Jackall
Plate 28: The Zebra / The Hippopotamus / The Tapir
Plate 29: The Gazelle / The Guib / The Chevrotin
Plate 30: Missing
Plate 31: Tancrec / Coandou / Tarsier / Glutton / Iratis
Plate 32: Great Seal / Small Seal / Manati
Plate 33: Ichneumon / Walrus or Sea Horse / Ursine Seal or Sea Bear
Plate 34: The Magot / The Jocko / The Little Gibbon / The Great Gibbon or Long Armed Ape
Plate 35: The Male Mandrill / The Female Mandrill / The Macacco / The Wanderow
Plate 36: The Malbrouck / Bonnet Chinois / The Douc/ The Mangabey
Plate 37: The Callitrix / The Brown Sajou / The Grey Sajou
Plate 38: The Saimiri / The White Throated Sai / The Talapoin / The Saki / The Tamarin
Plate 39: The Coaita / The Marikina / The Pinch / The Adult Ai / The Moustac
Plate 40: The Wild Boar of Cap Verde / Souflik / Kangaroo [Kanguroo]

Volume II:

With “An Epitome on the Art of Fishing” on page 218

Plate 41: The Cassowary / The Ostrich
Plate 42: The Eagle / The Dodo
Plate 43: The Great Vulture / The Secretary
Plate 44: The Falcon / The Buzzard / The Sparrow Hark
Plate 45: The Swallow Tailed Falcon / Lanner / Malabar Shrike
Plate 46: Spectacled Owl / Siberian Eared Owl / Butcher Bird
Plate 47: Wood Grouse / Bustard
Plate 48: The Quail / Red Partridge / Black Cock
Plate 49: The King Bird of Paradise / The Greater Bird of Paradise / The Guinea Fowl /
Plate 50: Growned Pigeon / Hen Crested Curassow / Gold Breasted Trumpeter/ Impeyan Pheasant /
Plate 51: Rollor / Horned Parrot / Cornish Chough /
Plate 52: The Toucan / Hoopoe / The Cockatoo
Plate 53: Buff Crested Woodpecker / Boat Tailed Grackle / Indian Bee Eater
Plate 54: Tropical Bird of the Oriole Species and other manner of building their Nests
Plate 55: Grand Pomerops / Oriole or Witwoll / Wryneck / Magnificent Bird of Paradise
Plate 56: Bohemian Chatterer / Hooked Bill Creeper / White Backed Coly / Cross Bill
Plate 57: White Tailed Thrush / Spotted Grosbeak / Carunculated Chatterer
Plate 58: Fan Tailed Fly Catcher / Rose Coloured Ouzel / Great Headed Titmouse / Thorn Tailed Warbler /
Plate 59: Black Throated Bunting / Gold Headed Manakin / Crested Manakin / Swallow / Swift
Plate 60: Pied Hornbill / The Spoon bill
Plate 61: Goat Sucker / Garnet Throated Humming Bird / Black Faced Ibis / Boat Bill
Plate 62: Egret / Carne / Umbre
Plate 63: The Balearic Crane / The White Stork
Plate 64: Jacana / Oyster Catcher / Watled Heron
Plate 65: Curlew / Reeve / Ruff / Crake
Plate 66: [bound after Plate 68] Black Bellied Darter / Gigantic Crane / Red Necked Grebe / Yellow Nosed Albatross
Plate 67: The King of the Vultures / The Flamingo / The Avoset
Plate 68: Parro / Sandpiper / Sanderling / Dotterel
Plate 69: The Grebe / The Puffin or Coulterneb / The Pelican
Plate 70: King Fisher [Kingfisher] / Long Tailed Duck / Eider Duck & Drake
Plate 71: Great Auk / Little Auk / Red Throated Diver
Plate 72: Eared Grebe / Hooded Merganser / Kittiwake / Common Gull
Plate 73: Stormy Petrel / Arctic Gulls / Red Breasted Merganser
Plate 74: Patagonian Penguin / Man of War Bird / Striated Tern / Great Tern
Plate 75: Gannet / Shag
Plate 76: Whale
Plate 77: Sea Unicorn / Saw Fish / Sword Fish
Plate 78: Blunt Headed Cachalot / Long Tailed Shark
Plate 79: White Shark / Dolphin / Wolf Fish / Sea Eagle
Plate 80: Great Electrical Eel / Blue Shark / Hammer Headed Shark / Remora / Rough Ray
Plate 81: Torpedo / Thornback / Oblong Diodon / Angler
Plate 82: Lamprey / Globe Diodon / Lump Sucker / Unctuous Sucker
Plate 83: Dragonet / Sea Devil / Hippocampus
Plate 84: Short Diodon / Pipe Fish / The Sea Porcupine / Sand Eel
Plate 85: The Sturgeon / The Salmon / The Pike / The Cod / The Tunny
Plate 86: Forked Hake / Three Bearded Cod / Viviparous Blenny / Crested Blenny
Plate 87: Opah / Ballan / Doree / Sea Pike
Plate 88: Charr / Trout / Samlet / Loach
Plate 89: The Land Tortoise / The Sea Tortoise or Turtle / The Flying Fish
Plate 90: The Violet Crab / The Spiny Lobster / The Lobster Crab / The River Crab
Plate 91: Univalve Shells – Large Trochus / Pyramidal Trochus / Murex / Painted Conch / The Purple / etc.
Plate 92: Polypus / Nautilus / Cuttle Fish / Shell of Nautilus
Plate 93: The Bull Frog / The Surinam Frog / Tarantula Lizard
Plate 94: The Crocodiles Egg / The Sea Urchin /
Plate 95: The Crocodile
Plate 96: Scaly Lizard / Camelion [Chamaeleon] / Siren / Salamander
Plate 97: The Asp, nearly as large as Life / The Common Viper on a reduced Scale
Plate 98: The Esculapian Serpent / The Rattle Snake with its Rattles
Plate 99: Insects: Scorpions / Flea Magnified / Louse Magnified / Spiders
Plate 100: Insects: Locusts / Cricket / Grasshopper / Indian Locust
Plate 101: Insects: Green Pivet Caterpillar / Caterpillar / Hairy Caterpillar / Aurelia
Plate 102: Butterflies
Plate 103: Butterflies and Moths
Plate 104: Silk Worm Moth / Silk Worm / The Case inclosing the Moth of the Silk Worm
Plate 105: Cervus Volans or Flying Stag / Rhinoceros Beetle / Taurus Volans or Flying Bull / Elephant Beetle / Wasp and Hornet Nest
Plate 106 and Plate 107: Botanical Plants: Monandria / Monogynia / Diadelphia etc.

• Keywords: 18th Century – Rare · Asses · Butterflies · Butterfly · Conchyliologie · Entomologie · Entomology · Falcon · Falconry · Horses · Illustrated Books Natural History · Illustrated Books Rare · Natural History · Natural History – Rare · New Arrivals · Ornithology – Rare · Snakes · Zoology · Zoology – Rare
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 31197AB

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