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Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon. Stipple engraving, 1828.

Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon. Line engraving.

Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon. Etching, 1805, after A. Pujos.

Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon. Line engraving by W. H. Lizars, 1843.

Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon. Line engraving by P. Audinet, 1812, after F. H. Drouais, 1761.

Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon. Stipple engraving.

A "man-midwife" (male obstetrician) represented by a figure divided in half, one half representing a man and the other a woman. Coloured etching by I. Cruikshank, 1793.

Georges Louis Leclerc, Conte de Buffon (1707-1788). Oil painting.

Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon. Stipple engraving by J. Chapman, 1801.

Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon. Coloured stipple engraving by J. Chapman, 1801.

The natural history of monkeys. Illustrated by thirty-one plates, numerous wood-cuts, and a portrait and memoir of Buffon / By Sir William Jardine, Bart. F.R.S.E. F.L.S. &c. &c.

Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon. Lithograph.

La réception en Italie et en Europe du ʻSaggio di osservazioni microscopicheʼ de Spallanzani (1765) / Carlo Castellani.

Histoire naturelle, générale et particuliére, avec la description du cabinet du roi / [Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon].

Buffon's Natural history, abridged. Including the history of the elements, the earth, mountains, rivers, seas, winds, whirlwinds, waterspouts, volcanoes, earthquakes, man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, shell-fish, lizards, serpents, insects, and vegetables / [George Louis Leclerc Buffon].

The entrails of a horse (?), showing the bladder. Engraving by F. Basan, 1753, after J. de Seve.

Wax models of the head and neck (figs 1-3), and of the right hemisphere of the brain (figs 4-5), made by G. G. Zumbo. Engraving by J. Robert after M. Basseporte, 1749.

A sloth; sloth in a tree in background. Engraving by J.C. Baquoy after J. de Seve, 1765.

Seven insects, including an earwig, a glow worm and four different beetles. Engraving by G. F. Schroeder, ca. 1822.

A title page (right) embellished with illustration of people ascending steep cliffs and a book plate (left) of four birds. Engravings by S. Davenport, ca. 1821.

Top, a barbastelle bat; bottom, a pipistrelle bat. Engraving by J.C. Baquoy after Buvée l'Ameriquain, 1760.

Histoire naturelle des quadrupèdes ovipares, serpents, poissons et cétacées ... pour faire suite aux œuvres de Buffon / [La Cepède (Bernard Germain Etienne de La Ville sur Illon)].

[Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière]. Tome VI, Les animaux domesrigues / [Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon].

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Top, a barbastelle bat; bottom, a pipistrelle bat. Engraving by J.C. Baquoy after Buvée l'Ameriquain, 1760.

A title page (right) embellished with illustration of people ascending steep cliffs and a book plate (left) of four birds. Engravings by S. Davenport, ca. 1821.

Histoire naturelle des quadrupèdes ovipares, serpents, poissons et cétacées ... pour faire suite aux œuvres de Buffon / [La Cepède (Bernard Germain Etienne de La Ville sur Illon)].

[Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière]. Tome VI, Les animaux domesrigues / [Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon].

A sloth; sloth in a tree in background. Engraving by J.C. Baquoy after J. de Seve, 1765.