Histoire naturelle des oiseaux
Publisher: De l'Imprimerie royale
Published: 1771
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 10
Subjects: Birds; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Oiseaux de Buffon.
Notes: Table of contents signed "par M. de Buffon" or "par M. de Montbeillard"; but almost entirely written by the abbé Bexon. Cf. Dict. de biographie française.

Forms pt. 2 of Buffon's Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière.

Ill. engraved by F.N. Martinet after Daubenton the younger, hand-colored; the "Avis pour l'order des planches" calls for 1008 plates, 35 of them non-ornithological.

The large folio edition, with an ornamental border about each page of text; also issued in small folio, without the border, with imprint dated 1770-1786.

Vol. 1, 1771; v. 2, 1772; v. 3, 1774; v. 4, 1777; v. 5, 1778; v. 6-8, 1783; v. 9, 1784; v. 10, 1786. The imprint varies: a) "De l'Imprimerie royale" or b) "Suivant la copie de l'Imprimerie royale".

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Anker, J. Bird books, 76

Nissen, C. Vogelbücher, 158