Both scientist and a writer, the Count de Buffon (1707-88) was an esteemed figure of the European Enlightment. This is William Smellie's translation of Buffon's "Histoire Naturelle". The third edition (1791) made available here, is considered to be the best edition of the translator's lifetime. Illustrated with over 300 copper-engraved plates, this cross-disciplinary 18th-century work should appeal to scholars of zoology, evolution, anthroplogy and climatology.
- ISBN10 1855068427
- ISBN13 9781855068421
- Publish Date 1 October 2000
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 30 June 2005
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Imprint Thoemmes Continuum
- Edition 1790-1799 ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 4110
- Language English