BUFFON (GEORGES LOUIS LECLERC, COMTE DE)


Histoire naturelle générale et particulière... nouvelle edition, 38 vol., engraved vignette on titles, engraved portrait, 1123 engraved plates (some folding, including maps and a table of dogs), early tree calf-backed marbled boards, spines tooled in gilt with red morocco lettering label, a few headbands very slightly rubbed but generally very fresh [Nissen ZBI 678], 4to (257 x 205mm.), Amsterdam, J.H. Schneider [-Dordrecht, A. Blussé & fils], 1766-1799, sold as a periodical
|An attractively bound set of "one of the earlier but very important editions of a fundamental and famous treatise on natural history" (Wood). Provenance: "Decret du XXIX Decemebre MDCCCX. (Bouches de la Meuse)", circular stamp on title-page of first volume.