Antique Bird Print - Passerines Passerines,Green-Backed Tit,Garden - F2 "Modèles de Colléges

"Modèles de Colléges

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Antique Bird Print - Passerines Passerines,Green-Backed Tit,Garden - F2 "Modèles de CollégesThis 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