The Natural History of Birds
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-02305-4 (ISBN)
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707–88) was a French mathematician who was considered one of the leading naturalists of the Enlightenment. An acquaintance of Voltaire and other intellectuals, he worked as Keeper at the Jardin du Roi from 1739, and this inspired him to research and publish a vast encyclopaedia and survey of natural history, the ground-breaking Histoire Naturelle, which he published in forty-four volumes between 1749 and 1804. These volumes, first published between 1770 and 1783 and translated into English in 1793, contain Buffon's survey and descriptions of birds from the Histoire Naturelle. Based on recorded observations of birds both in France and in other countries, these volumes provide detailed descriptions of various bird species, their habitats and behaviours and were the first publications to present a comprehensive account of eighteenth-century ornithology. Volume 8 covers domestic and foreign marine birds.
1. The ibis; 2. The curlews; 3. The lapwing; 4. The plovers; 5. The pluvian; 6. The great plover; 7. The long-shank; 8. The oyster-catcher; 9. The swift-runner; 10. The turn-stone; 11. The water-ouzel; 12. The water-thrush; 13. The knot; 14. The rails; 15. The caurale; 16. The water-hen; 17. The little water-hen; 18. The porzana, or the great water-hen; 19. The grinetta; 20. The smirring; 21. The glout; 22. The jacana; 23. The sultana hen, or porphyrion; 24. The common coot; 25. The crested coot; 26. The phalaropes; 27. The grebe; 28. The chesnut; 29. The divers; 30. The merganser; 31. The pelican; 32. The cormorant; 33. The shag; 34. The sea swallows; 35. The tropic bird; 36. The boobies; 37. The gannet; 38. The frigat; 39. The gulls and the mews; 40. The labbe, or dung-bird; 41. The long-tailed labbe; 42. The anhinga; 43. The rufous anhinga; 44. The shearbill; 45. The noddy; 46. The avocet; 47. The runner; 48. The red flamingo.
Reihe/Serie | Cambridge Library Collection - Zoology ; Volume 8 |
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Übersetzer | William Smellie |
Zusatzinfo | 39 Plates, black and white |
Verlagsort | Cambridge |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 31 x 216 mm |
Gewicht | 680 g |
Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution |
ISBN-10 | 1-108-02305-3 / 1108023053 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-108-02305-4 / 9781108023054 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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