My BasketBUFFON/DAVENPORT - MACKEREL, TUNNY, SALMON & TROUT print 1821
£20.00
This very fine engraving by Samuel Davenport of a Mackerel, Tunney, Salmon &Trout, is from an abridged new edition of Buffon's "Natural History" by the Rev. William Hutton. Published in London in 1821.
George Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon (1707 - 1788), was a French naturalist and philosopher, and member of the most learned societies of Europe.
Buffon’s “Histoire naturelle”, was originally published in Paris in forty-four quarto volumes between 1749 - 1804, and was the first work to present the previously isolated and disconnected facts of natural history in a popular and intelligible form.
(Ref; Pietsch - ‘Historical Portrait of the Progress of Ichthyology - Georges Cuvier)
condition:Overall very good, may have minor imperfections expected with age. Please examine our images carefully and contact us if you have any questions. Copy of title page included.
size:13.5 x 21.5 cm 5 ¼ x 8 ½ inches approx.
