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Illustrations de Histoire naturelle du Roy - Volume 01

Complete French title: Illustrations de Histoire naturelle générale et particulière avec la description du Cabinet du Roy – Tome I (Volume 01).

The First of 15 French books (Tome I to Tome XV) about humans and animals around the world.

Published about 1750 by the Imprimerie royale, Paris.

They belong to the Bibliothèque nationale de France and are available with their digital online library Gallica (Gallica Bibliothèque Numérique).

The leading author of the text among others was Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffon and the containing images were created by various French master-illustrators and -engravers of around 1750.

Listed by the Gallica File-Number

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(Sorted in order as the images are appearing in the book)

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    Volume 1 – Title Page
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    Map of the Old Continent
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    Map of the New Continent
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    Creating-the-World
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    Right Version
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    Natural History Studies
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    Geography
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    Formation of Planets
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    Per Aspera ad Astra
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    Left Version
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