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BUFFON, (GEORGE LOUIS LECLERC DE), and others. (112). Histoire naturelle, generale et particuliere,... Nouvelle edition, accompagnée de notes, et dans laquelle les supplémens sont insérés dans la premier texte, à la place qui leur convient. L'on y a ajouté l'histoire naturelle des quadrupèdes et des oiseaux découverts depuis la mort de Buffon, celle des reptiles, des poissons, des insectes et des vers, enfin, l'histoire des plantes dont ce grand naturaliste n'a pas eu le tems de s'occuper... Redigé par C. S. Sonnini. 112 (of 127) vol. (see below). Paris (de l'imprimerie de F. Dufart) an VIII (1799) - 1808.

8:o. 2 engraved coloured portraits, 7 folding engraved coloured maps, 969 engraved coloured plates (all in the present parts, 4 plates with small mendings, some foxing and spotting, about 10 harder, about 15 plates with some marginal dampstainig), 16 folding printed tables.
Contemporary brown half leather, very slightly worn except 2 harder worn, marbled boards, gilt spines, yellow edges, 1 binding different. About 10 textleaves with marginal tears, 15 leaves with paperloss in the margins, about 10 leaves with small loss of text after being glued together, about 10 leaves dampstained in the margins, Bookplate "Tilhör Holtermanska samlingen". 112 vol.

Consists of: Matériaux gén. I-XXI, Quadrupedes I-XIV, Singes I-II, Oiséaux I-XXVIII, Poissons I-XIV(cetacées vol. XIV), Reptiles I-VIII, Mollusques I-IV (of 6, lacks vol. V-VI), Crustacées et insectes I-XIII (of 14, lacks vol. XIV), Plantes I-IX (of 18, lacks vol. X-XVIII) (Also lacks Tables analytiques... vol. I-III).
See Nissen ZBI 682 (gives fewer plates than present in this copy).
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Auktionsnummer:

6208

Datum:

2015-12-15