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).
At the moment, this record does not display units or type of
measurements. We will rectify this as soon as possible.
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
Stable URI
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
