Histoire naturelle des quadrupèdes ovipares et des serpens / par M. le Comte de la Cepede
Object Details
- Notes
- "Sous le privilege de l'Académie Royale des Sciences."
- Also published in 4 vols, 1788-1790, 12mo.
- Woodcut title vignettes, head- and tail-pieces.
- Plates signed De Seve del, with varous engravers.
- Colophon: De l'Imprimerie des Bâtimens du Roi.
- BM (Nat. hist.), v. 1, p. 281
- BM (Nat. hist.), v. 3, p. 1041
- Also available online.
- Elecresource
- SCNHRB copy (39088015067549, 39088015067580, 39088015067622) imperfect: lacking at least 6 plates.
- SCNHRB copy has stamped on t.p.'s: Library of Congress Smithsonian Deposit Oct 17 1885 [ms. acc. no.] 157040.
- SCNHRB copy t. 1 bound in recent brown goatskin, title in gilt on spine, housed in a linen-covered dropback box; t. 2 bound in maroon buckram, title in gilt on spine; plates unbound, housed in an archival envelope.
- Data Source
- Smithsonian Libraries
- Date
- 1788
- 1789
- 1788-1789
- Call number
- QL641 .L13 1788
- QL641.L13 1788
- Author
- La Cépède M. le comte de (Bernard Germain Etienne de La Ville sur Illon) 1756-1825
- Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc comte de 1707-1788 Histoire naturelle, générale, et particulière
- former owner
- Sève, Jacques Eustache de DSI
- Library of Congress DSI
- Type
- Early works to 1800
- Physical description
- 2 v., [65] leaves of plates (2 folded) : ill. (engravings) ; 27 cm. (4to)
- Topic
- Paleontology
- Reptiles
- Amphibians
- Record ID
- siris_sil_97715
