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  • Buffon, engraving by C. Baron after Drouais, 1761.
    In Georges-Louis Leclerc, count de Buffon

    …1774–89, the most famous section, Époques de la nature (1778), being contained in the fifth of them. They were succeeded by nine volumes on birds (1770–83), and these again by five volumes on minerals (1783–88). The remaining eight volumes, which complete the first edition, were done by the count de…

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