Lettres à un Amériquain
Subtitle: sur l'Histoire naturelle, générale & particuliere de Monsieur de Buffon. Premiere partie [-Tome second. Troisieme partie]
Edition: Nouvelle edition revûe et corrigée /  par l'auteur.
Publisher: chez Duchesne, Libraire, rue S. Jacques.
Published: 1756
Place of publication: À Hambourg [i.e. Paris]; et se trouve à Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 199
Subjects: Natural history; History and criticism
Notes: Originally published Hamburg [i.e. Paris], 1751.

Authorship accorrding to Barbier.

A collection of nine letters.

Concerns: Histoire naturelle générale et particuliere. / Georges Lewis Leclerc comte de Buffon.

Each of the four parts has separate title page, paging and signatures. No volume title pages published.

The four parts are numbered: Premier partie; Seconde partie; Tome second. Suite de la seconde partie; Tome second. Troisieme partie. Numbering for v.1 is found only at the end of pt.2; Premier volume (p.126); Ier. volume (p.[1] at end); Ier volume (p.[27] at end)

BN lists 5 v. for the edition published in Hamburg and Paris. John Carter Brown Library copy lacks "Quatrieme-Cinquieme partie."

Edition statement follows other title information, but precedes numbering of parts.

Vignette on part titles and ornamental designs surrounding the word "Lettres"

Signatures: v.[1], pt.1: a-g¹² h⁶ (a1 verso, a8 verso blank); v.[1], pt.2: ²a⁶ ²b-² f¹² (-²f11-12; ²a1 verso blank); v.2, pt.2 cont: a-c¹² (-c6-7;c8 as"c6"); pt.3; ²a² ²b-²c¹² d-i¹² k² (²a1 verso blank)

Volume [1], part 1, page 17 misnumb.: "16". [cont.]

Includes scattered references to America.

Includes bibliographical references.

BN 93:1035.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary half calf and marbled paper boards, in 1 v.