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[BUFFON (Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de). Histoire naturelle mise à la portée de la jeunesse d'après Buffon et les plus célèbres naturalistes... Paris, Veuve Devaux, An XI - 1803. 2 vol. in-12 brown basane, smooth spine decorated, title and tomaison in red mar. The illustration consists of 27 plates (including the frontispiece) out of 30 (plates 9, 17 and 28 are missing) of which 25 are watercolored. Covers and corners worn, rubbed, large leather loss on the second cover of volume I. Tear with lack to the false title leaf of volume I, tear without lack to plate 11, scattered foxing and soiling.
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[BUFFON (Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de). Histoire naturelle mise à la portée de la jeunesse d'après Buffon et les plus célèbres naturalistes... Paris, Veuve Devaux, An XI - 1803. 2 vol. in-12 brown basane, smooth spine decorated, title and tomaison in red mar. The illustration consists of 27 plates (including the frontispiece) out of 30 (plates 9, 17 and 28 are missing) of which 25 are watercolored. Covers and corners worn, rubbed, large leather loss on the second cover of volume I. Tear with lack to the false title leaf of volume I, tear without lack to plate 11, scattered foxing and soiling.
