Buffon, Flourens Traviès et Henry Gobin - Œuvres complètes de Buffon - 1850

This sublime enriched edition with 150 steel-engraved plates after the drawings of Messrs. Traviès and Henry Gobin and colored with the utmost care -

This illustrated collection is a marvelous encyclopedic work on eighteenth-century natural history, blending literary prose, scientific observation, and cosmological ambition in a reference edition for bibliophiles and historians of science -

This edition gathers Buffon’s major texts, including Theory of the Earth, General History of Animals, The Epochs of Nature, and the Supplements, accompanied by Daubenton’s anatomical descriptions, his collaborator -

Buffon’s writing, both elegant and speculative, seeks to reconcile the rigor of naturalistic observation with a philosophical vision of nature, marked by sensualism, deism and an aesthetics of the sublime -

The work stands out for its attempt to systematize the living without recourse to Linnaean classification, favoring continuous descriptions and morphological analogies -

The Garnier edition, accessible and widely distributed, helped popularize Buffon’s thought among a broad cultured public, while preserving scientific and literary value -

It is valuable for researchers in the history of science, collectors of illustrated works, and curators interested in the visual transmission of naturalist knowledge in the modern era -

This edition also testifies to Buffon’s posthumous reception as a foundational figure of descriptive biology and speculative geology -

Buffon - Complete Works of Buffon - SD (Circa 1850) - Garnier frères -
Volume I. 686 pages, Volume II. 667 pages, Volume III. 597 pages, Volume IV. 680 pages, Volume V. 597 pages., Volume VI. 586 pages., Volume VII. 624 pages., Volume VIII. 631 pages, Volume IX. 670 pages., Volume X. 568 pages., Volume XI.609, Volume XII. 824 pages.

Very good condition of bindings, volumes in their genuine brown half-leather with original corners, marbled boards, light signs of wear, spines and corners rubbed, edges worn, spine smooth and nicely adorned, titles, author and volume numbers gilded on morocco pieces -

Good interior condition, light stains, volumes enriched with numerous colored illustrations printed out of text including a frontispiece -

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