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

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Complete works of Buffon by M. Flourens and Buffon, illustrated edition in French with leather binding, published by Garnier Frères, in 16 volumes totaling 10,000 pages of natural history and animals.

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16 Volumes of Buffon’s Complete Works and the Works of Cuvier and Lacepède
1855 - Leather binding - The boards are under a protective serpentine cover

12 Volumes of Buffon’s Complete Works
NEW EDITION
Including the Linnaean nomenclature and Cuvier’s classification annotated by M. Flourens; revised from the In-4° edition of the Royal Press and annotated by M. Flourens — Permanent Secretary of the Academy of Sciences, member of the French Academy, professor at the Museum of Natural History, etc.
150 steel engravings, colored, with the greatest care
New and unpublished drawings by Ed. Traviès and Henry Gobin
Garnier Frères, Booksellers Publishers, 6 Rue des Saints Pères, Paris

First Volume
Theory of the Earth, — General History of Animals

Second Volume
Man - The Quadrupeds

Third Tome
The Quadrupeds

Fourth Volume
The Monkeys - Additions to Quadrupeds

Volume Five
The Birds

Volume Six
The Birds

Volume Seven
The Birds

Volume Eight
The Birds

Ninth Volume
Introduction to Minerals - Epochs of Nature

Tenth Volume
The minerals

Eleventh Volume
The minerals

Twelfth Volume
Experiments on plants, moral arithmetic, and analytical and reasoned tables of the subjects contained in the entire work.


4 volumes: Works of 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, about 125 colored subjects with the greatest care after Cuvier’s Animal Kingdom, Edition V MASSON, supplements to Buffon’s complete works

First volume

Volume Two
Oviparous quadrupeds - snakes - fish

Volume three
fish

Volume four
fish

16 Volumes of Buffon’s Complete Works and the Works of Cuvier and Lacepède
1855 - Leather binding - The boards are under a protective serpentine cover

12 Volumes of Buffon’s Complete Works
NEW EDITION
Including the Linnaean nomenclature and Cuvier’s classification annotated by M. Flourens; revised from the In-4° edition of the Royal Press and annotated by M. Flourens — Permanent Secretary of the Academy of Sciences, member of the French Academy, professor at the Museum of Natural History, etc.
150 steel engravings, colored, with the greatest care
New and unpublished drawings by Ed. Traviès and Henry Gobin
Garnier Frères, Booksellers Publishers, 6 Rue des Saints Pères, Paris

First Volume
Theory of the Earth, — General History of Animals

Second Volume
Man - The Quadrupeds

Third Tome
The Quadrupeds

Fourth Volume
The Monkeys - Additions to Quadrupeds

Volume Five
The Birds

Volume Six
The Birds

Volume Seven
The Birds

Volume Eight
The Birds

Ninth Volume
Introduction to Minerals - Epochs of Nature

Tenth Volume
The minerals

Eleventh Volume
The minerals

Twelfth Volume
Experiments on plants, moral arithmetic, and analytical and reasoned tables of the subjects contained in the entire work.


4 volumes: Works of 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, about 125 colored subjects with the greatest care after Cuvier’s Animal Kingdom, Edition V MASSON, supplements to Buffon’s complete works

First volume

Volume Two
Oviparous quadrupeds - snakes - fish

Volume three
fish

Volume four
fish

Details

Number of Books
16
Subject
Animals, Illustrated, Natural History
Book Title
Œuvres Complètes de Buffon
Author/ Illustrator
M. Flourens; Buffon
Condition
Fine
Publication year oldest item
1850
Publication year youngest item
1850
Edition
Illustrated Edition
Language
French
Original language
Yes
Publisher
Garnier Frères
Binding/ Material
Leather
Number of pages
10000
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