[1792] 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.

Description

Folding Plates, Illustrated, Leather Binding, Original Binding

The new edition, abridged and illustrated.

Bound in full tree calf. 

Two volume, complete set. 

Illustrated with an engraved title page, monochrome frontispieces and forty copper engraved plates to 'Volume I' and sixty-seven to 'Volume II', including three folding plates with two being the rare folding plates of snakes. Collated complete. 

Includes the two rare and often missing folding plates of snakes which depict a common Viper, 'Esculapian serpent' and the rattle snake. 

This popular and influential work on Natural History was written by Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, a French naturalist. The work details the history of a variety of animals including reptiles, fish, birds and humans and provides histories of other natural subjects such as weather, mountains, earth quakes and volcanoes.