Georges-Louis, Leclerc de Buffon - Œuvres complètes. - 1833

BUFFON (Georges-Louis, Leclerc de)
Complete works.
Pourrat frères, Paris, 1833-1834.

In-8vo, (21.5 x 13.5 cm), 20 volumes, XV-462 pp.; 435 pp.; 559 pp.; 349 pp.; 333 pp.; 380 pp.; 396 pp.; 428 pp.; 444 pp.; 454 pp.; 391 pp.; 406 pp.; 384 pp.; 405 pp.; 476 pp.; 424 pp.; 493 pp.; 510 pp.; 488 pp.; 515 pp., bound. Half-leather morocco, glossy blond, smooth decorated spine, marbled edges. Uniform contemporary bindings. Some headcaps are chipped, some corners rubbed, some epidermures on the leather, foxing, some wormholes.

Edition preceded by a historical notice by M. A. Richard, professor at the Paris Faculty of Medicine.

It is illustrated with nearly 200 engravings enhanced with period colors.

Oeuvres complètes de Buffon, one of the foremost naturalists of the 18th century, whose Natural History profoundly renewed the study and understanding of the living world