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Histoire naturelle des oiseaux / par le comte de Buffon : and les planches enluminées, systematically disposed.: PB 130.2-2020

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Histoire naturelle des oiseaux / par le comte de Buffon : and les planches enluminées, systematically disposed.

Maker(s)

Pennant, Thomas,
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, (Comte de,)
Donor.: Fitzwilliam, Richard Fitzwilliam, (Viscount,)

Description

Advertisement to the reader signed: by Thomas Pennant.
With engraved title: 'Indexes to the ornithologie of the comte de Buffon and the Planches enluminées'.
With: Genera of birds / Thomas Pennant. London: pr. for B. White, 1781, and 1 other.
Binder's title: 'Genera of birds, Ind. zoology'.
Binding: calf, border (double, g. fillet); spine & board edges g.t., border g.t. on inside covers, raised bands, g. lettering; marbled e.p.; a.e. marbled.

References: ESTC t000861. Birds Early works to 1800. Ornithology Early works to 1800.

Notes

History note: Provenance: 'Fitzwilliam, 1809' inscr. on t.p. of 'Genera of birds'.

Measurements and weight

vii,[1],122p, [1] leaf of plates : ill ; 26cm (4to).

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Note

Pennant, Thomas,1726-1798.London :printed for B. White and Son ...,1786. Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788. Histoire naturelle. Fitzwilliam, Richard Fitzwilliam, Viscount, 1745-1816, donor. B. White and Son, bookseller.

Identification numbers

Accession number: PB 130.2-2020
Primary reference Number: 279254
ALMA control 001: 99120173803606
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Audit data

Created: Thursday 17 December 2020 Updated: Thursday 17 December 2020 Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Manuscripts and Printed Books

Citation for print

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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Histoire naturelle des oiseaux / par le comte de Buffon : and les planches enluminées, systematically disposed." Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/279254 Accessed: 2024-11-04 18:10:25

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