Perrault, Buffon and the natural history of animals

by Anita Guerrini

Notes & RecordsVolume 66(4):393-409

December 20, 2012

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Title page, Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire naturelle des animaux, 1671.

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‘Figure du Coati Mondi’, Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire naturelle des animaux, 1676.

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Title page, Buffon, Histoire naturelle, vol. 1, 1749.

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Elephant, Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire naturelle des animaux, 1733–34.

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Skeleton of elephant, Buffon, Histoire naturelle, vol. 11, 1764.

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Skeleton of elephant dissected by Duverney in 1681, at the Galerie de paléontologie, Muséum nationale d'histoire naturelle, Paris.

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