Description
TRAVIES (Édouard). Buffon in prints. Plates and illustrations by Mr. Édouard Traviès. Text by M. Henry-A. de Conty. Paris, Ledot aîné, sd (c. 1860). In-4 oblong, red half-chagrin, boards in red chagrin-like perc., gilt title on the first board, gilt tr. (binding of the time). Wetness and soiling on the boards. Well complete with 24 beautiful natural history plates (2 figures per plate) delicately watercolored and gummed. Text leaves browned, very light foxing in places otherwise very good condition of the plates. A second volume will appear several years later. (Nissen, ZBI, 4161.)
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TRAVIES (Édouard). Buffon in prints. Plates and illustrations by Mr. Édouard Traviès. Text by M. Henry-A. de Conty. Paris, Ledot aîné, sd (c. 1860). In-4 oblong, red half-chagrin, boards in red chagrin-like perc., gilt title on the first board, gilt tr. (binding of the time). Wetness and soiling on the boards. Well complete with 24 beautiful natural history plates (2 figures per plate) delicately watercolored and gummed. Text leaves browned, very light foxing in places otherwise very good condition of the plates. A second volume will appear several years later. (Nissen, ZBI, 4161.)
