Original Hand-coloured lithograph
PUBLICATION
“Complements de Buffon”
2nd edition, volume 2:
“Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux”
PUBLISHER: Paris, Pourrat Freres, 1838.
EDITOR: René-Primevère LESSON
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$160 USD
ABOUT THE PUBLICATION / EDITOR / ARTIST
René-Primevère LESSON (1794–1849)
LESSON was a French surgeon, naturalist, ornithologist, and herpetologist. Born at Rochefort, he entered the Naval Medical School in Rochefort at the age of sixteen. He served in the French Navy during the Napoleonic Wars; in 1811, he was third surgeon on the frigate Saale, and in 1813, was second surgeon on the Regulus.
In 1816, Lesson changed his classification to pharmacist. He served on Duperrey's round-the-world voyage of La Coquille (1822–1825), of which he collected natural history specimens with his fellow surgeon Prosper Garnot and officer Dumont d'Urville.[1]
On 3 February 1827, he married the artist and scientific illustrator Clémence Dumont de Sainte-Croix.[7] Dumont de Sainte-Croix along with her sister Zoë Dumont de Sainte-Croix illustrated plates in Lesson's publications.[8][9]
He became a corresponding member of the Académie de Médecine in 1828, later becoming a correspondent of the Académie des Sciences (1833).[11] He received the Légion d'honneur in 1847.
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788 Lacrampe et cie.
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