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Mid-18th century scientific correspondence

[LIGNAC, Joseph Adrien Le Large de].
Lettres à un Amériquain sur l'histoire naturelle, générale et particuliere de monsieur de Buffon ... [from vol. 4 further:] et sur les observations microscopiques de Mr. Néedham. [From vol. 6:] Suite des lettres a un Amériquain, sur les IVe. & Ve. volumes de l'Histoire naturelle de M. de Buffon; et sur le Traité des animaux de M. l'Abbé de Condillac.


With woodcut initials, ornaments and decorative lettering. With errata slips in vols. 1, 5 (vols. 6-9 each with an integral errata leaf).

With woodcut initials, ornaments and decorative lettering. With errata slips in vols. 1, 5 (vols. 6-9 each with an integral errata leaf).

With woodcut initials, ornaments and decorative lettering. With errata slips in vols. 1, 5 (vols. 6-9 each with an integral errata leaf).

With woodcut initials, ornaments and decorative lettering. With errata slips in vols. 1, 5 (vols. 6-9 each with an integral errata leaf).



"Hambourg" [Paris?], 1751-1756. 9 volumes. 12mo. Contemporary uniform mottled calf, gold-tooled spines (with initials "PV") and turn-ins, red morocco labels, marbled endpapers, red sprinkled edges, green ribbon markers. With woodcut initials, ornaments and decorative lettering. With errata slips in vols. 1, 5 (vols. 6-9 each with an integral errata leaf). [2], 127, [1], 50; [2], 66, [2], 66, [2]; [2], 31, [1], 96, 69, [1]; [2], 78, [2], 92; [2], 185, [1]; 238, [2]; [2], 238, [2]; [2], 258, [2]; [2], 276, [2] pp.

First edition of Lignac's wide-ranging scientific correspondence: letters to an anonymous (fictitious?) American. "Regardé comme le plus savant des écrits de l'auteur; (il) comprend dix lettres sur les principes hypothétiques de Buffon, la construction et la cause du mouvement des planètes, la construction de la surface de la Terre, l'origine des coquillages fossiles, l'idée de la construction animale, l'histoire naturelle de l'homme, la méthaphysique de Buffon, les observations faites par Needham, etc." (NBG XXXI, col. 199). The typography of the first five volumes is eccentric, with the word 'Lettres' on the title-page in a woodcut textura with the L integrated into the decorative frame around the whole word, and large lowercase initials and headings.

Binding with some minor flaws. A good set of this very rare work, with two errata leaves inserted.
Barbier II, col. 1222; Cobres, p. 210; Sabin 41054.

Related Subjects: 18th Century  Americana  Cosmography & Navigation  Natural History 

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