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Buffon, Georges Louis Le Clerc de · 1771 · 10 pictures

A volume from 1771 by Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon, a natural history work from a German university library, with copperplate-style headpieces and tailpieces. The pictures are small rococo ornaments of scrolls, foliage, urns and landscape vignettes, offering a designer historical cartouche and ornament motifs for decorative borders and framing.

Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg · Heidelberg University Library · No known copyright restrictions · More from this library