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
596 pages
978-1-108-02302-3 (ISBN)
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Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707-88), 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 5 covers larks, wagtails and fig-eaters.
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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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22 Plates, black and white
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Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 35 mm
Weight
830 gr
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978-1-108-02302-3 (9781108023023)
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From the French of the Count de Buffon; Illustrated with Engravings, and a Preface, Notes, and Additions, by the Translator
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1. The sky-lark; 2. The rufous-backed lark; 3. The wood-lark; 4. The tit-lark; 5. The grasshopper-lark; 6. The willow-lark; 7. The meadow-lark; 8. The Italian lark; 9. The calandre, or large lark; 10. The marsh-lark; 11. The Siberian lark; 12. The crested lark; 13. The lesser crested lark; 14. The undated lark; 15. The nightingale; 16. Species of the fauvette; 17. The yellow-neck; 18. The redstart; 19. The red-tail; 20. The Guiana red-tail; 21. The epicurean warbler; 22. The fist of Provence; 23. The ortolan pivote; 24. The red-breast; 25. The blue-throat; 26. The stone-chat; 27. The whin-chat; 28. The wheat-ear; 29. The wagtails; 30. The white wagtail; 31. The bergeronettes; 32. The fig-eaters; 33. The middle-bills; 34. The worm-eater; 35. The black and blue middle-bill; 36. The black and rufous middle-bill; 37. The bimbele, or bastard lineet; 38. The banana warbler; 39. The middle-bill, with white crest and throat; 40. The simple warbler; 41. The pitpits; 42. The yellow wren; 43. The great yellow wren; 44. The common wren; 45. The gold-crested wren; 46. The titmouse-wren; 47. The titmice; 48. The great titmouse, or ox-eye; 49. The colemouse; 50. The blue titmouse; 51. The bearded titmouse; 52. The penduline titmouse; 53. The Languedoc titmouse; 54. The long-tailed titmouse; 55. The Cape titmouse; 56. The Siberian titmouse; 57. The crested titmouse; 58. The nuthatch; 59. The creepers; 60. The common creeper; 61. The wall creeper; 62. The long-tailed soui-mangas; 63. The American guit-guits.