BIB_ID
374196
Accession number
MA 863.6
Creator
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788.
Display Date
17[50?] Feb. 14.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 20.2 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Monsieur de Ruffey President / a la Chambre des Comptes / a Dijon."
Endorsed.
Part of a collection of autograph letters signed from Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon, to Gilles Germain Richard de Ruffey and other recipients. Items are described in individual records; see MA 863 for details.
With seal.
Year is illegible but may read 1750.
Endorsed.
Part of a collection of autograph letters signed from Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon, to Gilles Germain Richard de Ruffey and other recipients. Items are described in individual records; see MA 863 for details.
With seal.
Year is illegible but may read 1750.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. before 1913.
Summary
Recounting the success of his book which is now in its third edition and has been translated into German, English, and Dutch; discussing the upcoming fourth volume, "qui contient un traitte de l'economie animale de ma facon et l'histoire des animaux domestiques par M. [Louis-Jean-Marie] Daubenton," and additional fifth and sixth volumes.
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