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