Compte Collection (#2)

Woman in wig, bonnet trimmed with foliage, yellow silk jacket and matching long skirt.. Handcolored lithograph of an illustration by Francois-Claudius Compte-Calix from Paris Fashions under

L entree-franche - je me suis ruine pour l en gresser - la fin du compte je ne sait pu en faire. Print shows Louis XVI as a pig with fish on his head forming the horns of cuckoldry

1749 God creates solar system and planets
Copperplate engraving from Georges-Louis Leclerc, Compte de Buffon " Histoire Naturelle" Volume 1, Plate 1. " Of the Formation of the Planets" 1749. N. Blakey del. and St

1755 Variation dog feet Buffon evolution
1755 Copperplate engraving from Georges-Louis Leclerc, Compte de Buffon " Histoire Naturelle" Volume 5, Plate LII. (Buvee L Ameriquain del. et L. le Grand sculp)

1749 Buffon Histoire Naturelle first eds
Spines of two first edition books (1749) " Histoire Naturelle, generale et particuliere". The first of 36 Volumes by the Compte de Buffon published between 1749 and 1789

1749 Buffon angel creation of the Earth
Copperplate engraving from Georges-Louis Leclerc, Compte de Buffon " Histoire Naturelle" Volume 1, Plate 2. " History and theory of the Earth" 1749. Bouchare del

1749 Human emotions and expression Buffon
1749 Copperplate engraving from Georges-Louis Leclerc, Compte de Buffon " Histoire Naturelle", Volume II, Plate VIII. shows some of the various expressions shown by the human face 1

Fermes of France
The fermes or taxation districts of France, as mapped in Neckers Compte rendu au Roi prepared for Louis XVI

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