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This is a 36-volume French-language work on natural history written by the comte de Buffon in the 18th century. Buffon published distinct sets concentrating on different parts of natural history, and also published volumes supplementing the original sets.
This page links to scans of volumes published during or shortly after his lifetime. Other authors wrote and published additional natural history volumes after his death, which were sometimes included in later editions of this series.
Fifteen volumes were published under the original title between 1749 and 1767, covering natural history generally, contents of the French royal collection, and quadrupeds:
Nine volumes of Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux (on birds) were published between 1770 and 1783:
Five volumes of Histoire Naturelle des Minéraux (on minerals) were published between 1783 and 1788:
Seven volumes supplementing the 29 volumes above were published between 1774 and 1789:
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