1774 Medical Monsters Deformed Freaks 2v Buffon Natural History DWARFS Anatomy

1774 Medical Monsters Deformed Freaks 2v Buffon Natural History DWARFS Anatomy

“Virtually all the well-known writers of the Enlightenment were ‘Buffonians’”

― Ernst Mayer

The monumental work by Comte de Buffon, “Histoire Naturelle,” was fascinating 18^th-century collection of articles and encyclopedia entries on material sciences, physics, chemistry, technology, as well as the history of animals. Buffon wrote the volumes with the intent of addressing all of natural history, but after realizing the grandeur of the work, it focuses only minerals, birds, and quadrupeds.

These two volumes include essays and reports on findings from mineral experiments, effects of heat, and invention of mirrors with engravings depicting these experiments.

The fourth supplemental volume is one of the most coveted volumes – it contains essays on moral arithmetic, life and age probabilities, and a particular curious essay on the physical deformities of dwarfs! Note that this section includes full-page engravings of deformities (“monsters” and “freaks” in period usage NOT OURS).

Item number: #26221

Price: $599

BUFFON, Georges Louis Leclerc

Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière, : avec la description du cabinet du roy.

À Paris, : De l’Imprimerie royale., 1774-77.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages; 2 volumes
  • tome I – [6], 542 (i.e., 538), xxviii, [2]
    • 16 plates, plus portrait frontispiece
  • tome IV – [8], 582, xx
    • 6 engravings
  • Language: French
  • Binding: Leather; tight and secure
  • Size: ~10in X 7.75in (25.5cm x 19.5cm)

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