The System of Natural History: Written by the Celebrated Buffon, Carefully Abridged; with Additional Extracts from Other Writers. Embellished with near Fifty Elegant Copper-Plates (Complete 2 Volume Set)

Language: English

Published by Printed for R. Morison and Son, booksellers, Perth; J. Ogle, Edinburgh; W. Coke, Leith; J. Gilles, and Brash and Reid, Glasgow; J. Burnet, Aberdeen; and Vernor and Hood, Birchin-Lane, London, Edinburgh, 1795

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Complete two volume set. Contemporary full marbled calf leather bindings. Spines with gilt decoration, red morocco title label and oval volume label. Wear to volume label of volume I. Gilt decorated board edges. Rubbing and slight cracking to joints. Light wear to ends of spines. Wear to upper corners of boards. Good solid bindings, very clean text throughout. Complete with the engraved frontis plus 39 numbered plates and six unnumbered plates. Final plate is a fold-out. In Volume I plates 5 and 6 have been neatly coloured with watercolours, plates 9 and 10 have been partially coloured in red watercolour. All plates are otherwise in excellent condition, some plates are bound out of sequence. A well-illustrated abridgement of Buffon's Histoire Naturelle, in attractive period bindings. ESTC: T490536. Overall condition is Very Good. Size: 5.5 x 8.5 inches (13.5 x 21.5 cm). Hardback. Printed pages: 8vo. x, 211, [1]; [2], 184.

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Title
The System of Natural History: Written by the Celebrated Buffon, Carefully Abridged; with Additional Extracts from Other Writers. Embellished with near Fifty Elegant Copper-Plates (Complete 2 Volume Set)
Author
George Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Publisher
Printed for R. Morison and Son, booksellers, Perth; J. Ogle, Edinburgh; W. Coke, Leith; J. Gilles, and Brash and Reid, Glasgow; J. Burnet, Aberdeen; and Vernor and Hood, Birchin-Lane, London, Edinburgh
Publication year
1795
Condition
Very Good
Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
Edition
2nd Edition.
Item weight
1,150 grams
Dimensions
5.5 x 8.5 inches (13.5 x 21.5 cm)
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Fine Bindings, Natural History

Tarrington Books

Tarrington, HEF, United Kingdom

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