Buffon - Histoire des animaux quadrupèdes: Le Pécari, le Tamanoir, le Pangolin, les Tatous, l'Eléphant - 1775

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Count of Buffon - Complete Works - Volume 4 - History of Quadruped Animals - in Paris, at the Royal Printing Office, 1775 - (3) ff, XLVIII pages, 349 pages - full marbled calf from the period - in-12 - 10.5 x 17 cm.

Condition: Missing headbands, good condition covers, sturdy hinges, two dulled corners, smooth spine decorated with gold floral motifs and the title piece in garnet maroquin and volume number in green maroquin, brown stains of varying sizes on the pages, red edges, engraved ex-libris of the library of the Grand Seminary of Versailles. This volume 4 is complete. Apart from the noted defects, a copy in good condition.

Illustrated work with 21 engravings outside the text.

The peccary, the giant anteater, the pangolin, the armadillos, the elephant, the rhinoceros, etc...

Notes and contents: 21 copper engravings: Peccary, Tamanoir, Pangolin, Tatoo, Elephant, Rhinoceros, etc....

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Count of Buffon (1707 – 1788), was a French naturalist, mathematician, cosmologist, and encyclopedic author.