[Rarebooks] FS: Works of Buffon with 225 plates, 201 hand-colored, 1837

[Charles Agvent]

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BUFFON, Georges-Louis Leclerc de. OEUVRES COMPLETES DE BUFFON, SUIVIES 
DE LA CLASSIFICATION COMPAREE DE CUVIER, LESSON, ETC., ETC. Paris: 
Pourrat Freres, 1837. Nouvelle Edition. Five volumes bound in 7 large 
octavo (6-5/8" x 10") volumes with green morocco leather spines and 
marbled boards, the plates bound separately in the two extra volumes. 
Illustrated with a total of 225 plates: a portrait, 4 folding maps, 10 
black-and-white plates, and 201 delicately hand-colored plates of 
mammals and birds. Plates generally clean and bright. Near Fine, 
attractively bound. (#016768)        $2,500.00

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