Antique Bird Print - Buffon - Golden Oriole - Oriolus Oriolus - France - F2 The cartographer used different colors

The cartographer used different colors to distinguish key features such as water bodies

Jean-François de Neufforge was a Flemish architect and engraver

dont le Plan doit former un quarré parfare"

The firm specialized in producing high-quality lithographs

and dates 1756

Antique Bird Print - Buffon - Golden Oriole - Oriolus Oriolus - France - F2 The cartographer used different colors"Golden Oriole" This lovely copper engraving is from Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffons Histoire naturelle, gnrale et particulire (General and specific natural history). The work was published in Paris, 1825. "Histoire Naturelle" is an extensive multi volume work authored by the French naturalist and scientist Georges Louis Leclerc Comte de Buffon ( 1707 1788). The book stands as one of the most important and influential scientific compositions of its