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an old book is sitting on a white surface with a white backgroundan open book with a picture of a lion on it ' s coveran open book with a map of the mountains and rivers in itan old map of the world being held up by a handsomeone is holding a book with a drawing of a tooth and a skull on it
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21 - BUFFON, Georges Louis-Leclerc de.
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Estimate €300 - €400
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BUFFON, Georges Louis-Leclerc de. Les Epoques de la Nature. Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1780. 2 parts in one large 12mo volume, (4)-246 and (1)-264 pp., 8 plates, including two fold-outs. Contemporary marbled and polished havana calfskin, decorated ribbed spine, edges speckled with red (upper cap worn away, corners slightly rubbed, slight rubbing but interior remains fresh). Rare separate first edition. Buffon’s theory on the history of the Earth, originally published in Volume 5 of the Supplement to his *Natural History* in 1778. Includes 2 fold-out maps: Map of the Langres Mountain Range and Map of the Two Polar Regions, 6 plates of teeth, all engraved on copper in black; lamp-shade borders and headbands. The fine map of the poles, divided into two hemispheres, depicts, for the North, northern America with the River St Lawrence to the east and a fragmentary coastline to the west; in the Southern Hemisphere, the extremities of the ‘Magellanic Lands’, ‘Diemen’s Land’ and ‘New Zealand’, as well as the routes taken by Captain Cook and other explorers. Contemporary library label with handwritten annotations. Ex libris on the first and last endpapers: ‘Ce livre … Chantreau né en 1795’. A fine copy in its contemporary binding. Provenance: from the library of Pierre Séjourné. Pierre Séjourné (1930–1993), a Parisian bookseller with a passion for bookbinding, a flautist and an enthusiast of literature and classical music, moved in both Parisian artistic and literary circles and the world of the Decorative Arts and their schools through his uncle, the architect and Academician Albert Laprade. Also an author and actor, he devoted himself to writing and performing his own plays, which were mainly staged in the Paris region. Wellcome II, 268. Norman, 370.
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