Histoire naturelle des oiseaux, par le Comte de Buffon
Subtitle: and, Les planches enluminées, systematically disposed
Contributors: Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788; Martinet, Franc̦ois Nicolas, b. 1731; Daubenton, Edme Louis, 1732-1785
Publisher: Printed for B. White and Son
Published: 1786
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 122
Subjects: Indexes
Other titles: Indexes to the Ornithologie of the Comte de Buffon and the Planches enluminées; Histoire naturelle des oiseaux; Planches enluminées; Systematic catalogue; Indexes to the Ornithologie of the Comte de Buffon ...; Catalogue of the birds ... in Les planches enluminées ...
Notes: Advertisement signed: Thomas Pennant.

The Catalogue of the birds ... indexes [Planches enluminées d'histoire naturelle] by F.N. Martinet and E.L. Daubenton; these plates also known as "Daubenton's Planches enluminées" and as "Buffon's Planches enluminées", since they were produced at Buffon's instigation for his Histoire naturelle, see: Anker, J. Bird books, no. 76.

Publisher's advertisement ("A list of Mr. Pennant's works") : p. [1], last page group.

Signatures: A-Q⁴ R².

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Wood, C. Vertebrate zoology, p. 516

SCNHRB has three copies (H395065A-C), all bound-with, apparently subsequent to publication: Pennant, Thomas. Genera of birds. London : Printed for B. White, 1781.

SCNHRB c. 3 with a plate from an unidentified ed. of Histoire naturelle, bound-in.
Table of contents: title: An index [to Histoire naturelle des oiseaux]; title: Catalogue of the birds, and other subjects, in Les planches enluminées with references to Histoire naturelle des oiseaux, par le Comte de Buffon.