August 14th, 2012
lindahall: Wild and domesticated cats in Georges Buffon’s Histoire naturelle, 1785.

lindahall:

Wild and domesticated cats in Georges Buffon’s Histoire naturelle, 1785.

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July 19th, 2012
lindahall: Hand-colored hedgehog, detail from the 1792 edition of Buffon’s Natural history, abridged, by Georges Buffon.

lindahall:

Hand-colored hedgehog, detail from the 1792 edition of Buffon’s Natural history, abridged, by Georges Buffon.

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