Remarkable complete copy of its 150 prints in brilliant colors
de the time 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 et and the classification of Cuvier, Revised on the in-4 edition of the RoyalPress and annotated by M. Flourens. New illustrated edition of 150 plates engraved on steel after the drawings of MM. Travies and Henry Gobin and colored with the utmost care.
Edited by Garnier Brothers, Paris, 1853-1855.
12 volumes 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 19th century, adorned witha portrait of Buffon engraved by Giroux, aun frontispiece designed by Staal and engraved by Delaunay showing “Man and Woman”, de 4 mapsand 144 off-text engravings on steel representing 800 subjects, the latter finely colored by hand mostly after drawings by Travies.
Nissen ZBI 704; Brunet, I, 1379 (mentions 166 plates wherês the list of plates bound at the end of the book lists 150).
This edition (with the Linnaên Nomenclature and Cuvier’s Classification) is annotated by M. Flourens and revised on the in-4° edition of the Royal Press.
Work adorned with numerous engraved color plates off-text with tissue guards.
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 off-text colored maps, 3 off-text plates.
Volume II: (2) ff., 667 pages. Man – Quadrupeds. 1 frontispiece and 22 off-text plates.
Volume III: (2) ff., 597 pages. Quadrupeds. 19 off-text plates.
Volume IV: (2) ff., 680 pages. Monkeys – Additions to Quadrupeds. 12 off-text plates.
Volume V: (2) ff., 597 pages. Birds. 23 off-text plates.
Volume VI: (2) ff., 586 pages. Birds. 20 color plates.
Volume VII: (2) ff., 624 pages. Birds. 21 off-text plates.
Volume VIII: (2) ff., 631 pages. Birds. 20 off-text plates.
Volume IX: (2) ff., 670 pages. Introduction to Minerals – Epochs of Nature. 2 maps and 4 off-text plates.
Volume X: (2) ff., 568 pages, (1) f. of table. Minerals.
Volume XI: (2) ff., 609 pages. Minerals.
Volume XII: (2) ff., 824 pages, (3) ff.. Experiments on Plants, Moral Arithmetic and Analytical and Rêsoned Tables of the Materials Contained in the Entire Work.
Superb copy, one of the rare complete with its 150 prints in the vibrant colors of the time, enriched with an original drawing.
