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Description: 1766 Buffon Natural History ANIMALS Illustrated MONKEY Primate Evolution Zoology "Virtually all the well-known writers of the Enlightenment were Buffonians" Ernst Mayer The monumental work by Comte de Buffon, Histoire Naturelle, was fascinating 18th-century collection of articles and encyclopedia entries on material sciences, physics, chemistry, technology, as well as the history of animals. Buffon wrote the volumes with the intent of addressing all of natural history, but after realizing the grandeur of the work, it focuses only minerals, birds, and quadrupeds. This popular fourteenth volume of the original set includes 41 full-page copper engravings. This particular volume is important because it has implication on the furthering of the theories of evolution. This volume features descriptions and illustrations of the following animals: monkeys, orangutans, gibbons, mandrills, malbrouck, talapoin, and many other primates. Item number: #483 Price: $ 750 BUFFON, Georges Louis Leclerc Histoire naturelle, generale et particuliere, : avec la description du cabinet du roy. A Paris, : De l'Imprimerie royale., [1766]. First edition. Details: Collation complete with all pages: [6], 411, [1] p., XLI leaves of plates o Includes general title page consistent with first editions. Binding: Leather; tight & secure Language: French Size: ~10in X 8in (25.5cm x 20cm) Our Guarantee: Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide. Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving, and we will offer a full refund without reservation! Photos available upon request.
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Description: All 41 copper engraved plates of Apes & Monkeys are present. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (September 7, 1707 -- April 16, 1788) was a French naturalist, mathematician, biologist, cosmologist and author. Buffon's views influenced the next two generations of naturalists, including Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Charles Darwin. Darwin himself, in his foreword to the 6th edition of the Origin of Species, credited Aristotle with foreshadowing the concept of natural selection, and stated that "the first author who in modern times has treated it in a scientific spirit was Buffon". Buffon is best remembered for his great work Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière (1749-1788: in 36 volumes, 8 additional volumes published after his death by Lacépède). It included everything known about the natural world up until that date. In it Buffon considered the similarities between humans and apes, and the possibility of a common ancestry. Buffon debated James Burnett, Lord Monboddo on the question of ancestry of the primates to man, Monboddo insisting on the closeness of relationship of man and apes. Buffon's work is considered to have greatly influenced modern ecology. His Histoire was translated into many different languages, making him the most widely read scientific author of the day. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
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