BUFFON (Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de). Œuvres complètes [ - Lot 292

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BUFFON (Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de). Œuvres complètes [ - Lot 292
BUFFON (Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de). Œuvres complètes [...] Mises en ordre et précédées d'une notice historique par M. A. Richard. Paris, Pourrat, 1835. 20 vol. of text and 2 vol. of Atlas in-8°. Raspberry half-basin, spine with 4 faux-nerfs decorated in hot and cold, t. and tom. pages in green morocco (period binding). Complete with 20 vol. of text, largely uncut. Engraved portrait of BUFFON (small lack in corner without affecting the engraving), 2 engraved titles, 1 engraved table, 4 engraved folding maps and 219 plates, 213 in color (66 in the "Mammals" volume and 153 in the "Birds" volume). Ronsil, Bibliographie ornithologique, I, 413 (1833-34). Unavoidable foxing, spines sunned, very slight defects to binding. Atlas covers rubbed and sunned; "Birds" atlas loose at inner seams, split at one headjamb. The atlases have been handled, the serpents are sometimes missing or partly missing, the engravings are sometimes stained, often soiled, but the whole remains attractive.
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