Sold for:
$1,020
$1,020
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc Comte de (1707-1788) Oeuvres Completes Paris: Dumenil, 1837. Nine octavo volumes, frontispiece portrait of Buffon opposite the title, volume one; volumes one through four contain Matieres Generales , volumes five and six: Histoire Naturelle [des] Quadrupedes , illustrated with forty-four plates; volumes seven through nine: Histoire Naturelle [des] Oiseaux , illustrated with fifty-six plates; all plates hand-colored; the set bound in contemporary uniform half sheepskin bindings, marbled boards, contents generally good, some spotting, some pages toned, light occasional foxing, 8 x 5 in. (9)
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2013-11-17
