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Product: Book
ISBN-10: 0-486-27703-8
ISBN-13: 9780486277035
Publisher: Dover Publications
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Year: October 1, 1993
Edition: illustrated edition
Size: 23.72 x 30.86 x 1.30cm
Number of pages: 192
Weight: 667gr
Binding: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0-486-27703-8
ISBN-13: 9780486277035
Publisher: Dover Publications
Country:
Year: October 1, 1993
Edition: illustrated edition
Size: 23.72 x 30.86 x 1.30cm
Number of pages: 192
Weight: 667gr
Binding: Paperback
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Masterpieces from the first modern compilation of scientific knowledge in the field of natural history, a work especially treasured today for the superb quality of its engraved illustrations. Includes both wild and domesticated animals, depicted in their natural environments. Royalty-free.
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Remarkable illustrations, superbly rendered; slightly nasty. 
First, I don't recommend this for the average Joe. It is too free, too open, too nasty. What is the point in showing animals sphincters? The only thing more revealing would have been dissections, which by the way the author has graciously left out. Its good art work, don't get me wrong. There are some really neat animals, some I have never heard of. So it has its ups but surely, also has its downs. 368 Animal Illustrations is a superbly rendered convenient archive of remarkable illustrations gatherd around 1766 by Georges-Loius Leclerc, Compte de Buffon, a natural scientist from Montbard, France. Buffon's pictorials range from the domestic cat and the Great Dane to our more wild mamals, such as the unique looking Lion-Tailed Macaque, who belongs to the primate family. No matter which of the 368 illustrations you happen to be looking at, you will notice the life-like detail and splendid qualities with which each has been created. The pictures printed within are rich with the exact detailed quality of the original copper plate engravings from which they come, and were created and chosen by Buffon himself. Each carefully chosen depiction is precisely accurate and neatly displayed in a natural setting deemed suitable for its subject. Although several of the illustrations are somewhat revealing in their poses, let's thank Buffon for skipping those he could have chosen of the much more revealing anatomicaly dissections.
First, I don't recommend this for the average Joe. It is too free, too open, too nasty. What is the point in showing animals sphincters? The only thing more revealing would have been dissections, which by the way the author has graciously left out. Its good art work, don't get me wrong. There are some really neat animals, some I have never heard of. So it has its ups but surely, also has its downs. 368 Animal Illustrations is a superbly rendered convenient archive of remarkable illustrations gatherd around 1766 by Georges-Loius Leclerc, Compte de Buffon, a natural scientist from Montbard, France. Buffon's pictorials range from the domestic cat and the Great Dane to our more wild mamals, such as the unique looking Lion-Tailed Macaque, who belongs to the primate family. No matter which of the 368 illustrations you happen to be looking at, you will notice the life-like detail and splendid qualities with which each has been created. The pictures printed within are rich with the exact detailed quality of the original copper plate engravings from which they come, and were created and chosen by Buffon himself. Each carefully chosen depiction is precisely accurate and neatly displayed in a natural setting deemed suitable for its subject. Although several of the illustrations are somewhat revealing in their poses, let's thank Buffon for skipping those he could have chosen of the much more revealing anatomicaly dissections.
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- Art
- Art & Art Instruction
- Art|Individual Artist
- Clip Art
- Early works to 1800
- Graphic Arts|Illustration
- Individual Artist
- Mammals
- Natural History: Animal & Wildlife
- Nature|General
- Pictorial works
- Prints
- Prints & printmaking
- Subjects & Themes|Plants & Animals
- The natural world, country life & pets
- Wildlife: general interest
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