Item #004868 Le Nilgaut Femelle [1 handcolored copperplate engraving of an antelope Nilgaut (Boselaphus tragocamelus) from Buffon's Histoire Naturelle]. Jacques de Sève.
Le Nilgaut Femelle [1 handcolored copperplate engraving of an antelope Nilgaut (Boselaphus tragocamelus) from Buffon's Histoire Naturelle]

Le Nilgaut Femelle [1 handcolored copperplate engraving of an antelope Nilgaut (Boselaphus tragocamelus) from Buffon's Histoire Naturelle]

Paris: De l'Imprimerie Royale, 1755. 1 handcolored copperplate engraving (25 x 20 cm.) from art by Jacques de Sève (fl. 1742-1788); engraved by Madeleine-Therese Rousselet. Plate 11 from Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, Histoire Naturelle, vol. 6. The plate is undated. The 11 volumes on Quadrupeds were originally published from 1753 to 1767. In Near Fine- Condition: small discoloration on left side of image; otherwise, clean and bright. Near Fine -. Item #004868

Price: $22.00