The Natural History of Birds
From the French of the Count de Buffon; Illustrated with Engravings, and a Preface, Notes, and Additions, by the Translator
Published on 25. November 2010
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Paperback/Softback
492 pages
978-1-108-02298-9 (ISBN)
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Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707-1788) was a French mathematician who was considered one of the leading naturalists of the Enlightenment. An acquaintance of Voltaire and other intellectuals, he worked as Keeper at the Jardin du Roi from 1739, and this inspired him to research and publish a vast encyclopaedia and survey of natural history, the ground-breaking Histoire Naturelle, which he published in forty-four volumes between 1749 and 1804. These volumes, first published between 1770 and 1783 and translated into English in 1793, contain Buffon's survey and descriptions of birds from the Histoire Naturelle. Based on recorded observations of birds both in France and in other countries, these volumes provide detailed descriptions of various bird species, their habitats and behaviours and were the first publications to present a comprehensive account of eighteenth-century ornithology. Volume 1 covers birds of prey and flightless birds.
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English
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Cambridge
United Kingdom
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Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
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29 Plates, black and white
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Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
688 gr
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978-1-108-02298-9 (9781108022989)
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The Natural History of Birds 9 Volume Paperback Set
From the French of the Count de Buffon; Illustrated with Engravings, and a Preface, Notes, and Additions, by the Translator
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11/2010
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Preface; 1. On the nature of birds; 2. Explanation of technical terms; Birds of Prey: 4. The eagles; 5. The golden eagle; 6. The ring-tail eagle; 7. The rough-footed eagle; 8. The erne; 9. The osprey; 10. The sea-eagle; 11. The white john; 12. The vultures; 13. The alpine vulture; 14. The fulvous vulture; 15. The cinereous vulture; 16. The hare vulture; 17. The ash-coloured vulture; 18. The condor; 19. The kite and the buzzards; 20. The buzzard; 21. The honey buzzard; 22. The bird Saint Martin; 23. The soubuse; 24. The harpy; 25. The moor buzzard; 26. The sparrow-hawk; 27. The gos-hawk; 28. The jer-falcon; 29. The lanner; 30. The sacre; 31. The common falcon; 32. The hobby; 33. The kestrel; 34. The stone-falcon; 35. The merlin; 36. The shrikes; 37. The great cinereous shrike; 38. The woodchat; 39. The red-backed shrike; 40. The nocturnal birds of prey; 41. The great-eared owl; 42. The long-eared owl; 43. The scops-eared owl; 44. The aluco owl; 45. The tawny owl; 46. The white owl; 47. The brown owl; 48. The little owl; 49. Birds which have not the power of flying; 50. The ostrich; 51. The touyou; 52. The galeated cassowary; 53. The hooded dodo; 54. The solitary dodo, and Nazarene dodo.