Planches Enluminees d’Histoire Naturelle
(Paris): c.1765. Binding: Half brown calf over marbled paper boards. Spine with 5 raised bands, red morocco label in second compartment, green morocco label in fourth compartment, gilt rolls on bands. , Notes: Edme-Louis Daubenton (12 August 1730 – 12 December 1785) was a French naturalist. Daubenton was the cousin of another French naturalist, Louis Jean-Marie Daubenton. Georges-Louis Leclerc (the Comte de Buffon) engaged Edme-Louis Daubenton to supervise the coloured illustrations for the monumental Histoire Naturelle (1749–89). The Planches Enluminee started to appear in 1765 and finally accounted for 1,008 plates, all engraved by François-Nicolas Martinet (1731–1800) and all painted by hand. The Parisian publisher Panckoucke published a version without text between 1765 and 1783.
The Histoire Naturelle, générale et particulière, avec la description du Cabinet du Roi is an encyclopaedic collection of 36 large (quarto) volumes written between 1749 and 1789 by the Comte de Buffon. The books cover what was known of the "natural sciences" at the time, including what would now be called material science, physics, chemistry, and technology, as well as the natural history of animals.
A de luxe edition of Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux (1771–1786) was produced by the Imprimerie royale in 10 folio and quarto volumes, with 1,008 engraved and hand-coloured plates, executed under Buffon's personal supervision by Edme-Louis Daubenton, cousin and brother-in-law of Buffon's principal collaborator, Louis Jean-Marie Daubenton. The plates were originally issued in 42 cahiers, each containing 24 plates and no accompanying text or titles.
, Size: Folio (460 x 315mm), Illustration: A beautifully bound collection of 100 handcoloured plates produced by Daubenton for the Comte de Buffon’s Histoire Naturelle, which was issued in multiple parts between 1765 and 1783 and came to encompass over 1,000 plates. The numbered plates depict birds from many parts of the world, including Africa, Canada, Mexico, France, Italy, Brazil, China, and America. The present volume represents an impressive compilation of plates originally issued across different parts, the numbering not always chronological. One plate with etched caption crossed and rewritten in contemporary hand., Category: Book Natural History; Book Plate Books Colour;. One plate with small tear at gutter, not affecting plate. Interior generally crisp and clean, colours vivid. Item #B7181
Price: $14,000.00