Benjamin Rabier - Le Buffon choisi - 1932

Charming illustrated edition in its beautiful publisher’s embossed hard cover of this novel that gathers a selection of excerpts adapted or illustrated by Benjamin Rabier, a renowned artist known for his animal drawings and talent for visual education -

This work is inspired by the monumentaloeuvre of Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon, 18th-century naturalist, famous for his Natural History, in which he undertook to describe and classify the animal world with an encyclopedic ambition -

The volume offers an accessible and engaging approach to Buffon’s texts, by choosing the most striking passages devoted to animals, their behaviors, their physical characteristics and their place in nature -

Benjamin Rabier’s contribution gives this selection an educational and playful dimension, thanks to expressive illustrations that make the content more vivid and closer to a wide audience, especially family or school groups -

Benjamin Rabier - Le Buffon choisi - 1932 - Garnier Frères -
228pp.

Good condition of the binding, book in its full illustrated hard cover edition, small spots and signs of use, a few minor defects on the cover, bumped heads and corners, smooth spine with ornament, title and author’s name in black, superb color engraving on the first cover -

Good interior condition, slight browning, book enriched with numerous and beautiful color engravings in and out of text, a pleasant copy -

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