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Histoire naturelle des oiseaux / par le Comte de Buffon, and les planches enluminées, systematically disposed [by Thomas Pennant].
Thomas PennantDate: 1786
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An ankylosis of the bones of the fractured right femur (thigh-bone) and tibia (lower leg bone) (figs 1-2) and the radius and ulna (bones of the forearm) joined by a flexible callus (figs 3-4) Engraving, 1749.
Date: [1749]Reference: 34125i
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The system of natural history ... / abridged ; with additional extracts from other writers.
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de BuffonDate: 1791
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De l'homme / Buffon ; présentation par Michèle Duchet ; postface de Claude Blanckaert.
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de BuffonDate: 2006
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Œuvres complètes de Buffon / avec les supplémens, augmentées de la classification de G. Cuvier. Et accompagnées de 700 vignettes gravées sur acier, représentant au moins 900 animaux.
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de BuffonDate: 1835-l836
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Seven insects, including an earwig, a glow worm and four different beetles. Engraving by G. F. Schroeder, ca. 1822.
Date: 18 April 1822Reference: 42084i
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Les époques de la nature / [Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon].
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de BuffonDate: 1780
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A cat born with two heads. Engraving by J. Chevillet, 1756, after J. De Sève.
Jacques de SèveDate: [between 1700 and 1799]Reference: 83i
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A child born with the viscera reversed. Engraving, 1749.
Date: [1749]Reference: 34178i
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Mounted horsemen and soldiers in antique armour battling with a group of lions. Engraving by C. F. Le Tellier after P. P. Rubens.
Peter Paul RubensReference: 41642i
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The entrails of a horse (?), showing the bladder. Engraving by F. Basan, 1753, after J. de Seve.
Jacques de SèveDate: [1753]Reference: 578659i
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A false ankylosis of the right femur (thigh-bone), seen from the front and back (figs 1-2) and divided for an interior view (fig. 3) Engraving, 1749.
Date: [1749]Reference: 34119i
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A dappled horse; a farmhouse in the background. Engraving by J.C. Baquoy, 1753, after J.B. Oudry.
Jean-Baptiste OudryDate: [1753]Reference: 578653i
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Top, the lesser horseshoe bat; bottom, a bat with large ears. Engraving by J.C. Baquoy after Buvée l'Ameriquain, 1760.
Buvée, active 18th centuryDate: [1760]Reference: 578633i
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Observations ... sur l'histoire naturelle générale et particulière de Buffon et Daubenton / [Chrétien Guillaume de Lamoignon de Malesherbes].
Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de MalesherbesDate: 1798
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Three figures of foetuses with hermaphroditic genitals. Engraving by J. Daullé after J. de Sève, 1749.
Jacques de SèveDate: [1749]Reference: 34153i
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Histoire des animaux, précédée d'un précis de l'histoire naturelle de l'homme. Ouvrage élémantaire, a l'usage des jeunes gens / [Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon].
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de BuffonDate: 1802
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Wax model of the human male generative organs and viscera, made by an anonymous collaborator of La Croix from dissections made by M. Faget while surgeon at the Hôpital Général de la Salpêtrière. Engraving by R. Gaillard after J. De Seve, 1749.
Jacques de SèveDate: [1749]Reference: 34229i
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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].
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de BuffonDate: 1792
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A rachitic skeleton, measuring two feet two inches in length, seen from the front and the back. Engraving, 1749.
Date: [1749]Reference: 34035i
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Five figures of exostoses (tumours) on the left femur (thigh-bone) Engraving, 1749.
Date: [1749]Reference: 34113i
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A female foetus of six inches in length with over-developed genitals. Engraving by J. Daullé after J. de Sève, 1749.
Jacques de SèveDate: [1749]Reference: 34161i
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Correspondance inédite de Buffon : à laquelle ont été réunies les lettres publiées jusqu'à ce jour, recueillie et annotée / par M. Henri Nadault de Buffon.
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de BuffonDate: 1860-
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Ten insects, including an ichneumon, a gnat and a king, a queen, a labourer and a soldier ant. Engraving by G. F. Schroeder, ca. 1822.
Date: 18 April 1822Reference: 42083i
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A natural history, general and particular containing the history and theory of the earth, a general history of man, the brute creation, vegetables, minerals, &c, &c / by George Louis Le Clerc, count of Buffon ; translated from the French by William Smellie.
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de BuffonDate: 1817