19th Dec, 2018 10:30 GMT/BST

Books, Maps & Ephemera

 
Lot 37
 

37

Buffon, Georges Louis Marie Leclerc, comte de Histoire Naturelle, Generale et Particuliere and...

Buffon, Georges Louis Marie Leclerc, comte de
Histoire Naturelle, Generale et Particuliere and Mineraux and Oiseaux and Quadrupede. Paris: Aux Deux-Ponts, Chez Sanson & Compagnie, 1785-91. 8vo (54 vols). Full contemporary calf, boards with gilt roll-tooled borders, spines gilt in compartments with morocco lettering-pieces in two, marbled edges, marbled endpapers; eng. port. frontis., 323 eng. plates (299 hand-coloured) (186 Quad.; 113 Oiseaux; 24 and frontis. Generale), 4 folding maps, with one additional coloured plate of a hedgehog bound in Quad. III, opp. p. 122. w.a.f.

Sold for £600
Estimated at £250 - £350


 

Bindings scuffed and rubbed with some variable loss, 2 spines lacking, others with loss, variable marking, spotting, foxing etc internally, though plates generally bright and vital. w.a.f.

 


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Auction: Books, Maps & Ephemera, 19th Dec, 2018

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