Art Gallery - Buffon 1791

Count de Buffon copperplate engraving "Flying Squirrel", London, 1791 Another Count de Buffon copperplate engraving "Flying Squirrel", London, 1791 Count de Buffon copperplate engraving, 1791, London Sailing, or Great Flying Squirrel From "Natural History, General and Particular", by the Count de Buffon. Translated into English with occasional notes and observations by William Smellie, Member of the Antiquarian and Royal Societies of Edinburgh. The third edition in nine volumes. London: Printed for A.Strahan, and Cadell in the Strand, 1791. Buffon's Histoire Naturelle is one of the most famous works of the eighteenth century, by one of the European Enlightenment's most highly esteemed thinkers. First published in 1749-88, the Histoire Naturelle was considered one of the great masterpieces of its day. Covering an immense range of subjects, from cosmology and geology to biology and anthropology, it was the first modern attempt to present, systematically, all the facts of natural history.