Antique Bird Print - Black-Headed Gull, Skylark, Meadow Pipit - F2 and encyclopedic nature

and encyclopedic nature

"Plan et Elevation pour une façade de Batiment"

Developpement pour un Båtment de quatre Tonses de face dans œuvre sur die de profondeur"

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Antique Bird Print - Black-Headed Gull, Skylark, Meadow Pipit - F2 and encyclopedic natureThis lovely copper engraving is from Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffons Histoire naturelle, gnrale et particulire (General and specific natural history). The work was published in Paris, 1825. "Histoire Naturelle" is an extensive multi volume work authored by the French naturalist and scientist Georges Louis Leclerc Comte de Buffon ( 1707 1788). The book stands as one of the most important and influential scientific compositions of its era, representing