APS Members Bibliography

Louis J.M. Daubenton (358)

Election date: 1775

Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton (29 May 1716–1 January 1800) was a naturalist, and a member of the American Philosophical Society, elected in 1775. Born in Burgundy, France, Daubenton begrudgingly studied theology in Paris until his father’s death, at which time he could dedicate his studies to his true passions: medicine and anatomy. Earning his degree at Rheims in 1741, Daubenton began composing anatomical descriptions for a project of his childhood friend and renowned naturalist, Georges Buffon. A few years later, Daebenton began working as Buffon’s assistant at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris. Daubenton quickly earned a reputation as an innovative anatomist: he joined the French Academy of Sciences (1760), became lecturer in natural history at the College of Medicine (1775), then professor of zoology at the Collège de France (1780); when the Jardin des Plantes rebranded as the Museum of Natural History, he became its first director (1793). He is remembered as a pioneer in anatomy and paleontology and for introducing Merino sheep to France. In 1799, Daubenton became an elected member of the French Senate, but unfortunately, a month later he suffered from an attack of apoplexy and died. (EB, et al.)

Member(s): Georges-Louis LeClerc, Comte de Buffon | Member(s): Louis J.M. Daubenton

231.002

Histoire naturelle, générale et particuliére, avec la description du Cabinet du roy.

Creator(s):

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc comte de (1707-1788) (Author) | Lacépède, Étienne de (1756-1825) (Author) | Plassan, Pierre (1751-1810) (Editor) | Sap, Jacques de (Illustrator) | Daubenton, Louis-Jean-Marie (1716-1800) (Collaborator) | Guéneau de Montbeillard, Philippe (1720-1785) (Collaborator) | Bexon, Gabriel Léopold Charles Amé (1747-1784) (Collaborator)

Publication:

Paris: Imprimerie royale, 1749-1804

Subjects:

Zoologie

Record Source:

BNF

APS Subjects:

Editions Note:

Innumerable editions and extracts. As the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) notes: "For the details and history of the publication see the article by A.-M. Bassy, "L'oeuvre de Buffon", in "L'Art du livre à l'imprimerie nationale" (Paris, 1973), p. 171-189.

Holding Note: APS holds a number of truly singular and important editions. Foremost is a folio edition of five of the ten handcolored volumes of Histoire Naturelle Des Oiseaux, which was given to Benjamin Franklin in Paris by the author [see holding note for additional details]. Volume five has a mss. note: "From the Count de Buffon to the Society. Minutes, Dec. 17, 1774." See also the English-language index (1786, London) produced by Thomas Pennant. APS also holds perhaps the single most complete edition, the nouvelle édition of Buffon's works (An VIII [1799–1800]–1808, Paris) in 127 volumes. Fourteen APS Members presented the gift in 1818: N. Biddle; Z. Collins; W. Meredith; J. Sergeant; W. Tilghman; H. Binney; J. Correa de Serra; R. M. Patterson; W. Short; J. Vaughan; C. Chauncey; J. Coxe; G. Pollock; W. Rawle; C. Wistar. Cf. American Philosophical Society Minutes, Feb. 20, 1818; see also (Bell, PI, III:570–72). APS holds a 16v. imprint (1770-1789, Paris) with bookplates of Lovelace. In addition, APS also holds volumes 3 and 12 of Oiseaux, presented by Samuel M. Fox through Emily Conant, 2001, and both contain the autograph of George Fox. This edition does not contain the colored plates executed by Daubenton the younger, but rather the black and white set by De Sève prepared when Buffon recognized that Daubenton's plates could not be produced in sufficient quantity to accompany all copies of the text: see holding note for detail. APS holds 1 vol. on Minerals (1783-1788, Paris) presented by Fox through Contant with the autograph of George Fox. The same also presented a number of volumes of what was likely the second Paris imprint. APS holds four other volumes of the original series issued beginning in 1749: vol. 1-3 contain the autograph of Adam Seybert from 1795, which he presented in August 1822; the vol. 5 supplement was presented by the author. APS holds a translation of the volume on horses (1762, London) with the bookplate of John Knight. APS also holds a separate edition of the nouvelle but it is an incomplete set containing only v. 1-3. APS holds a translated extract on birds (1791, Edinburgh); an abridgement (1792, London) presented by the descendants of Benjamin Vaughan through Mrs. George Gibson in 1991; an 11v. edition (1804, Paris); and the 20v. William Smellie translation (1812, London), presented by I. Minis Hays. APS also holds some volumes of later nineteenth-century imprints: see the (1830, Edinburgh) and the (1853-1855, Paris).

Member(s): Louis J.M. Daubenton

358.001

Characterisirung einer kleinen Art von Taschen-Krebsen, deren Rückenschild ein natürliches Menschengesicht vorstellet.

Creator(s):

Daubenton, M. 1716-1799 (Louis-Jean-Marie) (Author)

Publication:

Hamburg: Johann Philip Christian Reuss, 1780.

Record Source:

APS Subjects:

Natural History

Editions:

1x 1780 (Hamburg)

Editions Note:

One edition.

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Member(s): Louis J.M. Daubenton

358.002

Collection d'oiseaux natifs de notre pais et etrangers : de papillons, de cerfs-volans, de hannetons, de coquilles, de coraux et d'autres productions naturelles peu communes.

Creator(s):

Daubenton, M. 1716-1799 (Louis-Jean-Marie) (Author)

Publication:

Nuremberg: Adam Louis Wirsing, 1776.

Subjects:

Zoology -- Pictorial works. | Birds -- Pictorial works. | Birds. | Zoology.

Record Source:

APS Subjects:

Natural History

Editions:

1x 1776 (Nuremberg)

Editions Note:

One edition. Text in French and German.

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Member(s): Louis J.M. Daubenton | Member(s): Antoine L. Lavoisier

358.003

Deuxième rapport des commissaires chargés, par l'Académie, des projets relatifs à l'établissement des quatre hôpitaux. [Signé Lassone, Daubenton, Tillet, Bailly, Lavoisier, La Place, D'Arcet]

Creator(s):

Lassone, Joseph-Marie-Francois de, 1717-1788 (Author) | Tenon, Jacques, 1724-1816 (Contributor) | Tillet, Mathieu, ca. 1720-1791 (Contributor) | Académie des sciences (France) (Corporate Author) | Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent, 1743-1794 (Contributor) | Bailly, Jean Sylvain, 1736-1793 (Contributor) | Coulomb, C. A. (Charles Augustin), 1736-1806 (Contributor) | Daubenton, M. (Louis-Jean-Marie), 1716-1799 (Contributor) | Arcet, Jean d', 1725-1801 (Contributor) | Laplace, Pierre Simon, marquis de, 1749-1827 (Contributor)

Publication:

Paris: Institut de France, 1788.

Subjects:

Hospitals. | France. | Paris.

Record Source:

APS

APS Subjects:

Medicine | Benevolence Societies

Editions:

1x 1788 (Paris)

Editions Note:

One edition.

Holding Note: APS holds one copy. View Holding

Member(s): Louis J.M. Daubenton

358.004

Discours d'ouverture et de clôture du cours d'histoire naturelle : donné dans le Muséum national d'histoire naturelle l'an VIII de la République.

Creator(s):

La Cépède, M le comte de 1756-1825 (Bernard Germain Etienne de La Ville sur Illon) (Author) | Daubenton, M. 1716-1799 (Louis-Jean-Marie) (Author)

Publication:

Paris: Chez Plassan, 1800.

Subjects:

Natural history.

Record Source:

APS Subjects:

Natural History

Editions:

1x 1800 (Paris)

Editions Note:

One edition.

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Member(s): Louis J.M. Daubenton

358.005

Dizionario di storia naturale dell'Enciclopedia Metodica di Parigi Tom. I.

Creator(s):

Daubenton, M. 1716-1799, (Louis-Jean-Marie) (Editor) | Desmarest, A-G 1784-1838 (Anselme-Gaëtan) (Author)

Publication:

Roma: dal Desiderj, 1795-1797.

Record Source:

APS Subjects:

Natural History

Editions:

1x 1795-1797 (Roma [Rome])

Editions Note:

One edition, consisting of two parts in one volume.

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Member(s): Louis J.M. Daubenton

358.006

Du Déplacement de la population de Paris.

Creator(s):

Daubenton, M. 1716-1799 (Louis-Jean-Marie) (Author)

Publication:

Paris: Carilian-Goeury, 1843.

Subjects:

Population. | France -- Paris.

Record Source:

Editions:

1x 1843 (Paris)

Editions Note:

One edition.

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Member(s): Louis J.M. Daubenton

358.007

Encyclopédie méthodique : histoire naturelle des animaux.

Creator(s):

Daubenton, M. 1716-1799, (Louis-Jean-Marie) (Lead Author and Editor) | Mauduyt, M. -1792, (Pierre-Jean-Claude) (Contributor and Editor) | Olivier, G. A. 1756-1814, (Guillaume Antoine) (Contributor and Editor) | Latreille, P. A. 1762-1833, (Pierre André) (Contributor and Editor) | Lepelletier de Saint-Fargeau, Félix, 1769-1837 (Contributor and Editor) | Audinet Serville, M. 1775-1858, (Jean Guillaume) (Contributor and Editor)

Publication:

Paris: Chez Panckoucke, libraire, hôtel de Thou, rue des Poitevins : Liège: Chez Plomteux, imprimeur des Etats, 1782-1825.

Subjects:

Record Source:

Editions:

1x 1782-1825 (Paris and Liège)

Editions Note:

Editions unknowable: the 206 volume Encyclopédie méthodique counted hundreds of authors as contributors and appeared in translations and as excerpts across the globe over decades. Daubenton was the lead author of the 10 volumes of the natural history, which garnered a separate imprint, noted here.

Holding Note: APS holds volumes 1 and 3 of Daubenton's 10 v. contribution only. Researchers can find extant holdings of the broader Encyclopédie here. View Holding

Member(s): Louis J.M. Daubenton

358.008

Extrait des ouvrages de Vicq-Dazir : contenant ses Discours sur l'anatomie comparée : on y a joint son Tableau des fonctions, ou caractères propres aux corps vivans, et celui des animaux par Daubenton.

Creator(s):

Vicq-d'Azyr, M. 1748-1794 (Félix) (Author) | Daubenton, M. 1716-1799 (Louis-Jean-Marie) (Editor and Author)

Publication:

Montpellier: [s.n.], 1800s.

Subjects:

Anatomy -- Comparative.

Record Source:

APS Subjects:

Anatomy

Editions:

1x 1800s (Montpellier)

Editions Note:

One edition.

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Member(s): Louis J.M. Daubenton

358.009

Instruction pour les bergers : et pour les propriétaires de troupeaux.

Creator(s):

Daubenton, M. 1716-1799 (Louis-Jean-Marie) (Author)

Publication:

Paris: De l'Imprimerie de Ph.-D. Pierres, 1782.

Subjects:

Sheep.

Record Source:

References:

Shaw-Shoemaker 19917 | Shaw-Shoemaker 22662

APS Subjects:

Agriculture

Editions:

1x 1782 (Paris), 1x 1784 (Leipzig und Dessau), 1x 1785 (Paris), 1x 1787 (Venezia), 1x 1795 (Paris), 1x 1798 (Madrid), 1x 1800 (Dublin), 1x 1802 (Paris), 2x 1810 (Paris), 1x 1810 (Boston), 1x 1811 (Boston), 1x 1822 (Paris)

Editions Note:

Thirteen editions. One in 1782 (Paris), one in 1784 (Leipzig und Dessau), one in 1785 (Paris), one in 1787 (Venezia), one in 1795 (Paris), one in 1798 (Madrid), one in 1800 (Dublin), one in 1802 (Paris), two in 1810 (Paris), one in 1810 (Boston), one in 1811 (Boston), and one in 1822 (Paris).

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Member(s): Louis J.M. Daubenton

358.011

Mémoire sur le premier drap de laine superfin du cru de la France : lu à la rentrée publique de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, le 21 avril 1784.

Creator(s):

Daubenton, M. 1716-1799 (Louis-Jean-Marie) (Author) | [Académie royale des sciences (France)] (Corporate Author)

Publication:

Lille [France]: N.J.B. Peterinck-Cramé, 1784.

Subjects:

Wool fabrics -- France. | Woolen goods -- France. | Wool fabrics. | Woolen goods.

Record Source:

BNF

APS Subjects:

Agriculture | Economics

Editions:

2x 1784 (Lille), 1x 1785 (Paris), 1x 1786 (Paris), 1x 1792 (Gouda [Netherlands])

Editions Note:

Five editions: two in Lille in 1784, two in Paris (1785 and 1786), and one in Gouda, Netherlands, in 1798.

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Member(s): Louis J.M. Daubenton

358.012

Mémoire sur les indigestions : qui commencent à être plus fréquentes, pour la plupart des hommes, à l'âge de quarante ou quarante-cinq ans : lu à la Société royale de médecine, le 26 octobre 1784.

Creator(s):

Daubenton, M. 1716-1799 (Louis-Jean-Marie) (Author)

Publication:

Paris: Chez Ph.-D. Pierres ... Debure l'aîné, Didot le jeune, Gogué & Née de la Rochelle, 1785.

Subjects:

Dyspepsia. | Age Factors.

Record Source:

NLM

APS Subjects:

Medicine | Anatomy

Editions:

1x 1785 (Paris), 1x 1798 (Paris), 1x 1806 (London), 1x 1807 (London), 1x 1809 (London), 1x 1813 (London), 1x 1816 (Kiøbenhavn, Schubothe [Copenhagen])

Editions Note:

Eight editions in total. There were two Paris editions: one in 1785 and one in 1798; four London editions: 1806, 1807, 1809, and 1813; and one Danish edition in Kiøbenhavn, Schubothe [Copenhagen] in 1816.

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Member(s): Louis J.M. Daubenton | Member(s): Antoine L. Lavoisier

358.013

Rapport des commissaires chargés, par l'Académie, de l'examen du projet d'un nouvel Hôtel-Dieu : par Mrs. De Lassone, Dauberton, Tenon, Bailly, Lavoisier, La Place, Coulomb, D'Arcet.

Creator(s):

Publication:

Paris: Institut de France, 1788.

Subjects:

Hospitals. | France. | Paris.

Record Source:

APS

APS Subjects:

Medicine | Benevolence Societies

Editions:

1x 1788 (Paris)

Editions Note:

One edition.

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Member(s): Louis J.M. Daubenton

358.014

Tableau méthodique des minéraux, suivant leurs différentes natures, et avec des caractères distictifs, apparens ou faciles à reconnoître.

Creator(s):

Daubenton, M. (Louis-Jean-Marie), 1716-1799 (Author)

Publication:

[Paris: Demonville], [1784]

Subjects:

Mineralogy. | Nomenclature.

Record Source:

APS

APS Subjects:

Geology

Editions:

1x 1784 (Paris)

Editions Note:

One edition.

Holding Note: APS holds one copy, which contains the bookplate of Paul Gavelle. View Holding

Member(s): Louis J.M. Daubenton | Member(s): Antoine L. Lavoisier

358.015

Troisième rapport des commissaires chargés, par l'Académie, de l'examen des projets relatif à l'établissement des quatre hôpitaux. [Signé Lassone, Daubenton, Tillet, Tenon, Bailly, Lavoisier, La Place, Coulomb, D'Arcet].

Creator(s):

Publication:

Paris: Institut de France, 1788.

Subjects:

Hospitals. | France. | Paris.

Record Source:

APS

APS Subjects:

Medicine | Benevolence Societies

Editions:

1x 1788 (Paris)

Holding Note: APS holds one copy. View Holding

Member(s): Louis J.M. Daubenton

358.016

[Fiscal plan and statement of accounts for the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle].

Creator(s):

Daubenton, M. 1716-1799, (Louis-Hean-Marie) (Author) | Faujas-de-St-Fond, cit 1741-1819 (Barthélemy) (Author) | Verniquet, Edme, 1727-1804 (Author)

Publication:

[Paris]: De l'Imp. de la veuve d'Houry, rue Hautefeuille, no 14, 1792.

Record Source:

APS Subjects:

Natural History

Editions:

1x 1792 ([Paris])

Editions Note:

One edition. The title was devised by the cataloger. The names Daubenton, Faujas, Verniquet, and others are listed on p. 77.

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