Remarkable complete copy of its 150 prints in brilliant colors
de the era enriched with the original drawing of one of the prints.
Paris, 1853-1855.
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, Count Of. Complete Works, with the nomenclature Linnaên eand the classification of Cuvier, Reviewed on the large in-4 edition of the Royal Printand annotated by M. Flourens. New edition illustrated with 150 engraved plates on steel after the drawings of MM. Traviès and Henry Gobin and colored with the grêtest care.
Published by Garnier Frères, Paris, 1853-1855.
12 volumes large in-4. Half red morocco with corners, gilt edges. Binding of the period.
277 x 183 mm.
One of the most complete and best editions published in the nineteenth century, adorned witha portrait of Buffon engraved by Giroux, withun frontispiece drawn by Staal and engraved by Delaunay showing “Man and Woman”, de 4 maps, and 144 steel engravings outside the text representing 800 subjects, the latter finely hand-colored mostly after the drawings of Traviès.
Nissen ZBI 704; Brunet, I, 1379 (mentions 166 plates wherês the list of plates bound at the end of the work lists 150).
This edition (with the Linnaên Nomenclature and Cuvier’s Classification) is annotated by M. Flourens and reviewed on the large in-4° edition of the Royal Printing House.
Work adorned with many color plates outside the text under tissue.
Volume I: (2) ff., 686 pages. Theory of the Earth – General History of Animals. Portrait of Georges Louis Leclerc Count of Buffon, engraved by Émile Giroux, 2 colored maps outside the text, 3 plates outside the text.
Volume II: (2) ff., 667 pages. Man – The Quadrupeds. 1 frontispiece and 22 plates outside the text.
Volume III: (2) ff., 597 pages. The Quadrupeds. 19 plates outside the text.
Volume IV: (2) ff., 680 pages. The Monkeys – Additions to the Quadrupeds. 12 plates outside the text.
Volume V: (2) ff., 597 pages. The Birds. 23 plates outside the text.
Volume VI: (2) ff., 586 pages. The Birds. 20 color plates.
Volume VII: (2) ff., 624 pages. The Birds. 21 plates outside the text.
Volume VIII: (2) ff., 631 pages. The Birds. 20 plates outside the text.
Volume IX: (2) ff., 670 pages. Introduction to Minerals – Epochs of Nature. 2 maps and 4 plates outside the text.
Volume X: (2) ff., 568 pages, (1) f. of table. The Minerals.
Volume XI: (2) ff., 609 pages. The Minerals.
Volume XII: (2) ff., 824 pages, (3) ff. Experiments on Plants, Moral Arithmetic and Analytical and Rêsoned Tables of the Subjects Contained in the Entire Work.
Superb copy, one of the few complete with its 150 prints in vivid colors of the period, enriched with an original drawing.
