Set of 4 18th Century Ornithological Engravings by Buffon Pair Antique Plates making it easy to place

making it easy to place in any interior

A good example of industry in the early 19th Century when English lace makers worked in their own home

The chairs are raised on well turned and chamfered legs with attractively scrolling arms

This antique crocodile dressing case is a superb example of the luxury

The mirror has a wonderful 3D effect with the central sculptural cherubs head set within the scrolling canopied cresting

Set of 4 18th Century Ornithological Engravings by Buffon Pair Antique Plates making it easy to placeAn unusual set of four 18th Century copper plate engravings by Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon. Buffon was born in Burgundy in 1707 and died in Paris in 1788. Buffon devoted much of his life to the study of ornithology and natural history. It has been written that 'Buffon was the father of all thought in natural history in the second half of the 18th Century'. This set of four engravings are wonderfully detailed studies of beaks, they are