M. Flourens; Buffon - Œuvres Complètes de Buffon - 1850-1850

Complete Works of Buffon with the Linnéenne nomenclature and Cuvier's classification. Reviews of the in-4° edition by the Royal Printing Office and annotated by Mr. Flourens.
Illustrated edition of 150 plates engraved on steel, after the drawings of Messrs. Traviès and Henry Gobin, and colored with the greatest care.
12 Volumes
With works by Cuvier and Lacépède, containing Buffon's supplement to the history of mammals and birds. The history of cetaceans, amphibians, snakes, and fishes. Illustrated with 50 plates, approximately 125 colored subjects carefully executed based on Cuvier's Animal Kingdom, edition V. Masson. Supplement to Buffon's complete works, annotated by M. Flourens. 4 volumes.
A total of 16 volumes, complete. By Buffon, Cuvier, and Lacépède.
The boards are under a protective serpente.

Detailed description:

Beautiful period binding. Good condition, 196 engraved plates, of which 193 are colored.
First volume: Theory of the Earth - General History of Animals. Contents: 1 portrait, 5 color plates, including 2 maps.
Volume Two: Man - The Quadrupeds. Contents: frontispiece and 23 colored plates.
Volume three: The quadrupeds. Contents: 22 colored plates.
Volume Four: Monkeys - Additions to quadrupeds. Contents: 6 colored plates.
Volume five: The birds. Selection: 19 colored plates.
Sixth volume: The birds. Collection: 23 colored plates.
Seventh volume: The birds. Snack with 21 colored plates.
Volume Eight: The Birds. Contents: 19 colored plates.
Volume nine: (Part two) Introduction to minerals - Eras of nature.
Tenth volume: The minerals.
Volume eleven: Minerals.
Twelfth volume: Experiments on plants, moral arithmetic, and analytical and reasoned tables of the subjects contained in the entire work.
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Volume thirteen (first of the Cuvier and Lacépède supplement): Birds. Contents: 8 colored plates and 1 black and white plate.
Tenth tome (second of the Cuvier and Lacépède supplement): Egg-laying quadrupeds - Snakes - Fishes. Supplement: 13 colored plates.
Fifteenth volume (third of the Cuvier and Lacépède supplement): Fish. Collation: 11 colored plates.
Sixteenth fourth tome of the Cuvier and Lacépède supplement: Fishes - General alphabetical table, classification of engravings. Collation: 17 colored plates.

Twelve volumes of: XXXVI-686 pages, 667 pages, 597 pages, 680 pages, 597 pages, 586 pages, 624 pages, 631 pages, 670 pages, 568 pages, 609 pages, 824 pages.
Two black and white engravings outside the text (portrait of Buffon and frontispiece), two color maps outside the text, and three color engravings in volume 1; 29 color engravings outside the text in volume 2; 30 color engravings outside the text in volume 3; 22 color engravings outside the text in volume 4; 18 color engravings outside the text in volume 5; 17 color engravings outside the text in volume 6; 17 color engravings outside the text in volume 7; 17 color engravings outside the text in volume 8; 6 color engravings outside the text in volume 9. No engravings in volumes 10, 11, and 12. A total of 159 color engravings, two maps, a engraved frontispiece, and a portrait of Buffon.
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Complete Works of Buffon
XXXVI + 686 pages + 667 pages + 597 pages + 680 pages + 597 pages + 586 pages + 624 pages + 631 pages + 670 pages + 568 pages + 609 pages + 824 pages

Cuvier and Lacépède supplement
668 + 668 + 684 + 674 pages.