Antique Print of Birds – Buffon (1748)

Highly decorative engraving of birds titled ‘Gravure de Travies : L’Ecorcheur, La Pie grieche grise, Le Vanga, Le Gonolek’

by

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707 – 1778) , a French naturalist, mathematician, biologist, cosmologist and author. Le Comte de Buffon was struck by the diversity of life and was not content with existing explanations of the natural world. 100 years before Darwin, Buffon, in his

Histoire Naturelle , a 44 volume encyclopedia describing everything known about the natural world, was considering common ancestry of man and apes

Measurements : 280 x 380 mm. (in FRAME)

Condition: Good, age-toning