NATURAL HISTORY, General and Particular.
by BUFFON, George, Count De
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About This Item
London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1812. New Enlarged Edition. Hardcover. Good. Copperplate Engravings . Octavo, 493 pages, contemporary full calf, joints rehinged, inked name on half-title page, no spine labels
Translated by William Smellie, editor of The Encyclopedia Britannica. Vols. 16 (of 20) : being vol. 6 of The History of Birds, with coverage of bergeronettes, figeaters, wrens, titmice, nuthatches, parrots,cockatoos, lories. 15 plates. [PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN, 198].
Translated by William Smellie, editor of The Encyclopedia Britannica. Vols. 16 (of 20) : being vol. 6 of The History of Birds, with coverage of bergeronettes, figeaters, wrens, titmice, nuthatches, parrots,cockatoos, lories. 15 plates. [PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN, 198].
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- Bookseller
- Thomas J. Joyce And Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004511
- Title
- NATURAL HISTORY, General and Particular.
- Author
- BUFFON, George, Count De
- Illustrator
- Copperplate Engravings
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- New Enlarged Edition
- Publisher
- T. Cadell and W. Davies
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1812
- Keywords
- Natural History, Buffon, George Buffon, Smellie, William Smellie, Birds, Ornithology, Parrots, figeaters, Cockatoos, Lories, Wrens, Fly-Catchers,
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About Thomas J. Joyce And Company
Joyce And Company has been in business as a professional rare bookseller and appraiser since 1975. Owner Thomas Joyce was the regular book appraiser on Home & Garden TV\'s \"The Appraisal Fair\\\" program, on international broadcasts. Thomas Joyce was the co-discoverer of George Washington's personal copy of William Leybourn's 1679 edition of THE COMPLEAT SURVEYOR, from which young Washington learned some of his surveying skills at age 16. The book had vanished for nearly a century until its re-discovery in 2017. It is now back at Mt. Vernon.
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