Histoire naturelle des quadrupèdes ovipares et des serpens
By: par M. le Comte de la Cepede
Contributors: Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788; Sève, Jacques Eustache de, former owner; Library of Congress
Publisher: Hôtel de Thou
Published: 1788
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 65
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Reptiles; Amphibians; Paleontology
Notes: "Sous le privilege de l'Académie Royale des Sciences."

Also published in 4 vols, 1788-1790, 12mo.

Woodcut title vignettes, head- and tail-pieces.

Plates signed De Seve del, with varous engravers.

Colophon: De l'Imprimerie des Bâtimens du Roi.

Includes bibliographical references.

BM (Nat. hist.), v. 1, p. 281

BM (Nat. hist.), v. 3, p. 1041

extracted picklist 20081216 BHLEX

SCNHRB copy (39088015067549, 39088015067580, 39088015067622) imperfect: lacking at least 6 plates.

SCNHRB copy has stamped on t.p.'s: Library of Congress Smithsonian Deposit Oct 17 1885 [ms. acc. no.] 157040.

SCNHRB copy t. 1 bound in recent brown goatskin, title in gilt on spine, housed in a linen-covered dropback box; t. 2 bound in maroon buckram, title in gilt on spine; plates unbound, housed in an archival envelope.