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BUFFON / G. Cuvier - Complete Works of Buffon. Augmented by G. Cuvier's Classification, and accompanied by 700 steel-engraved vignettes, representing at least 900 animals. - Paris, P. Duménil – 1835–1836 - 9 parts - original half-leather bindings; spines with gold stamping and title labels - 22 x 14 cm Condition: very good - neat original bindings with very solid joints; very neat, compact and sturdy volumes (like new!); very neat and clean pages (only in one part the small brown spots typical for this period due to ink quality, no other stains: very neat and clean paper!). NB: some of the photos appear bluish due to twilight. Equipped with hundreds of beautiful, full-page plates with stunning depictions of animals. Especially many plates of forest animals, many apes and many more plates of birds (no fewer than 188 plate leaves!) See the hundreds of photos for their beauty: very detailed! Rare edition. Must-have for collectors of books on Natural-history and animal engravings. VERY LOW RESERVED PRICE (!) Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon (1707-1788) was a French naturalist, mathematician, biologist, cosmologist, philosopher and writer. Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric Cuvier, called Georges Cuvier (1769-1832), was a French anatomist, promoter of comparative anatomy and paleontology in the 19th century.
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