Author: Comte de Buffon
Title: Buffon&Apos;S Natural History
Description: London, T. Tegg, 1821. Cloth. Georges Buffon's influential work on natural history, illustrated with striking and detailed hand-coloured plates. Complete in two volumes.'Buffon's Natural History' presents an abridged version of Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon's extensive work on natural history, a multi-volumed work which was originally published between 1749 and 1804. The work details the history of a variety of animals including reptiles, fish, birds and humans and provides histories of other natural subjects such as weather, mountains, earthquakes and volcanoes.Volume I is illustrated with a hand-coloured frontispiece, a hand-coloured engraved title, and forty-four hand-coloured plates. Collated, complete.Volume II is illustrated with a hand-coloured frontispiece, a hand-coloured engraved title, and fifty-six hand-coloured plates. Collated, complete. In a full cloth binding. Externally, a little worn, with loss to the spines and joints, in particular to the front joints. Spines and extremities are faded. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Light marks and rubbing to the cloth. Small dampstain to the tail of the boards. Hinges are starting but firm. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with scattered spots, with a small tidemark to the tail of the first and last few pages. Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Good .

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