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Maître Stéphane PRENVEILLE

26 - [NATURAL HISTORY] – Set of 3 volumes – BUFFON – Selected Pas…
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Estimate €40 - €60
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[NATURAL HISTORY] – Set of 3 volumes – BUFFON – Selected Passages. A collection of the most remarkable works by this great naturalist […] - Paris; Boiste fils aîné, 1823 - 1 volume, In-16° - Scattered foxing, in places pronounced - 10 separate plates featuring 54 illustrations of animals - Contemporary binding in green Russian half-leather - Smooth spine, decorated and titled in gold - Edges speckled with brown - BUFFON - Selected Pieces - Paris; Ant. Aug. Renouard, 1807 – 1 volume, In12° – Numerous charming small woodcut vignettes of animals as inserts – Modest, later, worn black half-cloth binding – PIZZETTA (J.) - Plants and Animals. Informal Talks on Natural History - Paris; A. Hennuyer, [c. 1885] - 1 volume, In-4° - Yellowed pages, a few scattered foxing spots, loose quires - 150 woodcuts in the text and 6 hand-coloured and gummed plates outside the text, from the period - Period binding in burgundy half-basane - Ribbed spine, decorated and titled in gold (with halos).
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Auction time 10/02/2026 at 9:30 AM
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