BUFFON (Georges Louis Leclerc, Count of), 1707–1788.

BUFFON (Georges Louis Leclerc, Count of), 1707–1788. L.A., Montbard, July 4, 1751, 3 pp., in-4, in brown ink, red wax seal bearing coat of arms preserved (some restoration), addressed to his close friend President de Brosses (Charles de Brosses, 1709–1777) (address crossed out but still fairly legible). An important scientific letter in which Buffon clearly sets forth his conception of spontaneous generation and claims authorship of the experiments published by Abbé Needham. The latter ha

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Books & manuscripts

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Paris