Author: HALES, S.- Guéneau de Montbéliard.- Buffon.-
Title: La statique des végétaux, et l 'analyse de l 'air. Expériences nouvelles lûes àl la Société Royale de Londres. Ouvrage traduit de l'anglois par M. de Buffon...
Description: Paris, Chez Jacques Vincent, rue & vis-à-vis l'Eglise S.Severin, à l'Ange, 1735. 4to. w. 20 fold. pls. (on 10). Contemp full mottl. clf., spine w. red title label, gilt. (Small part of lower outer hinges splitting.). (XXVI, 408 pp.). (Without the privilege leaf; A few pp. yellow. Some annotations in the hand of Guéneau de Monbéliard in the text). (A few quires medium browning.). (All edges speckled red.). DSB VI, 35/48:'...an influential French translation, which has the famous "Preface d'un traducteur", in which Buffon praises the experimental method, and includes Hales's appendix. ': Wellcome III, 194: Nordenskiöld, 253/4: (He tried) 'by the way of physics to discover the conditions of the life and growth of plants ...': First publication by Buffon and first French edition. Copy from Guéneau de Monbéliard, friend and cooperator of Buffon, his signature on the tiltle.

Keywords: botanie botany chemistry plant physiology Monbeliard association W67