Histoire naturelle, générale et particuliere, des poissons
Subtitle: ouvrage faisant suite à l'Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière, composée par Leclerc de Buffon, et mise dans un nouvel ordre par C.S. Sonnini, avec des notes et des additions
By: par C.S. Sonnini
Contributors: Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788; La Cépède, M. le comte de (Bernard Germain Etienne de La Ville sur Illon), 1756-1825
Publisher: De l'imprimerie de F. Dufart
Published: 1801
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 13
Other titles: Oeuvres de Buffon [t.] 65-77, Histoire des poissons
Notes: "A slightly modified reprint of Comte de Lacépède's Histoire naturelle des poissons"--Dean, v. 2, p. 469.

Tome 4 dated An X [i.e. 1801-1802].

Woodcut publisher's device on t.p.

Includes bibliographical references.

Dean, B. Bibl. of fishes, v. 2, p. 469 (variant?)

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SCNHRB has two copies, both incomplete. SCNHRB c. 1: lacking t. 9 and t.p. and p. 49-70. of t. 13. SCNHRB c. 2 lacking t. 9-11.

SCNHRB c. 1 stamped on t.p.: Library, U.S. National Museum Smithsonian Institution May 10 1894 [ms. acc. no.] 147338.

SCNHRB c. 1 bound in plain rust-colored cloth binding, title in gilt on spine, at foot of spine: U.S. National Museum; original printed paper wrappers, Oeuvres de Buffon, bound in at end of each t.

SCNHRB c. 2 stamped on verso of t.p.'s: Smithsonian Institution National Museum Jan 3 1943 [acc. no.] 321872-321879, 321883-321884.

SCNHRB c. 2 bound in red library buckram, title in gilt on spine.

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