Georges-Louis Leclerc  (1707 – 1788)

ZOOLOGICAL

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon was a French naturalist, mathematician, cosmologist, and encyclopédiste. From 1749 to his death in 1788, the Comte de Buffon composed thirty-six volumes of his monumental Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière. The main focus of Buffon’s volumes on non-ornithological animal life contains sections on both domestic and wild animals. He employed the talents of Jacques de Seve (1742 - 1788) to illuminate his descriptions of the quadrupeds. These are a selection of his illustrations with a focus on Africa, engravings by Louis Le Grand.