Antique Bird Print - Buffon - Perenoptere, Griffon Vulture - France - F2 Artist or Maker

Artist or Maker

people were afraid that it would collapse

l'oiseau de Tempéte"

Richard Bowdler Sharpe

" a major work describing the birds in the collection of the British Museum

Antique Bird Print - Buffon - Perenoptere, Griffon Vulture - France - F2 Artist or Maker"Le Gobe mouche a Gorge Brune, Le Gobe mouche a Collier, Le Petit Azur" "Pretre Pinx" This lovely copper engraving is from Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffons Histoire naturelle, gnrale et particulire (General and specific natural history). The work was published in Paris, 1825. "Histoire Naturelle" is an extensive multi volume work authored by the French naturalist and scientist Georges Louis Leclerc Comte de Buffon ( 1707 1788). The book stands as one