Title
Lettres à un Amériquain, : sur l'Histoire naturelle, générale & particuliere de Monsieur de Buffon. Premiere partie [-Tome second. Troisieme partie]
By
Lelarge de Lignac, Joseph Adrien, 1710-1762
Type
Book
Material
Published material
Publication info
À Hambourg [i.e. Paris]; et se trouve à Paris, chez Duchesne, Libraire, rue S. Jacques, 1756
Edition
Nouvelle edition revûe et corrigée / par l'auteur.
Notes
Originally published Hamburg [i.e. Paris], 1751.
Authorship accorrding to Barbier.
A collection of nine letters.
Concerns: Histoire naturelle générale et particuliere. / Georges Lewis Leclerc comte de Buffon.
Each of the four parts has separate title page, paging and signatures. No volume title pages published.
The four parts are numbered: Premier partie; Seconde partie; Tome second. Suite de la seconde partie; Tome second. Troisieme partie. Numbering for v.1 is found only at the end of pt.2; Premier volume (p.126); Ier. volume (p.[1] at end); Ier volume (p.[27] at end)
BN lists 5 v. for the edition published in Hamburg and Paris. John Carter Brown Library copy lacks "Quatrieme-Cinquieme partie."
Edition statement follows other title information, but precedes numbering of parts.
Vignette on part titles and ornamental designs surrounding the word "Lettres"
Signatures: v.[1], pt.1: a-g¹² h⁶ (a1 verso, a8 verso blank); v.[1], pt.2: ²a⁶ ²b-² f¹² (-²f11-12; ²a1 verso blank); v.2, pt.2 cont: a-c¹² (-c6-7;c8 as"c6"); pt.3; ²a² ²b-²c¹² d-i¹² k² (²a1 verso blank)
Volume [1], part 1, page 17 misnumb.: "16". [cont.]
Includes scattered references to America.
BN | 93:1035.
Subjects
1708-1788
,
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc,
,
comte de,
,
Histoire naturelle générale et particulière
,
History and criticism
,
Natural history
Language
French
Identifiers
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.83624
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