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[NATURAL HISTORY] - BUFFON (Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de)…
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[NATURAL HISTORY] - BUFFON (Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de)] - Histoire naturelle générale et particulière - Paris ; Panckoucke, Liège ; C. Plomteux, 1769 - 12 volumes large In-12° (out of 13, here volume XII is missing) - Fairly marked halos on volumes I, II, IX, X and XI, with mould on volumes II, IX and X, paper weakened in places - 165 plates and 2 folding maps Attached: [DU MÊME] - Histoire naturelle des oiseaux - Paris; Imprimerie Royale, 1770 - 2 volumes In-12° - Aureole and some mould on volume II, last endpaper almost detached - 29 plates out of text (of which 2 detached) - Uniform 19th century half tan speckled basane binding in the 18th century style (some jaws rubbed, (some rubbed spines, small paper losses and warping on the boards of volume II of the Birds) - Ornate smooth spines (3 upper headpieces slightly damaged) - Burgundy morocco title-pieces and tomes (tomes missing from volume II of the Birds) - Armorial ex-libris label on the 1st counter boards: Baron de Trétaigne.
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