Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788
Title:
The natural history of the horse : to which is added, that of the ass, bull, cow, ox, sheep, goat, and swine : with accurate descriptions of their several parts : and full directions for breeding, chusing, feeding, and improving, those useful creatures / translated from the French of the celebrated M. de Buffon.
Alternate Title(s):
Histoire naturelle. English. Selections
Published / Created:
London : Printed for R. Griffith's in the Strand, MDCCLXII [1762]
Physical Description:
[2], ii, [2], 340 pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
QL737.U4 B84 1762
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Translation of selections from Buffon's Histoire naturelle.

Frontispiece engraved by Isaac Taylor; after J.B. Oudry.

Includes bibliographical references.

BAC: British Art Center copy bound in contemporary brown half calf and marbled boards.
Subject Terms:
Ungulates -- Early works to 1800. | Livestock -- Early works to 1800. | Horses -- Early works to 1800.
Form/Genre:
Engravings -- 1762.
Contributors:
Taylor, Isaac, 1730–1807, engraver. | Oudry, Jean-Baptiste, 1686–1755, illustrator. | Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707–1788. Histoire naturelle. | Griffiths, Ralph, 1720–1803, publisher.