BUFFON (Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de)
Complete works of Buffon (with the Linnaean nomenclature and Cuvier's classification). Revised on the in-4 edition of the Royal Printing House, and annotated by M. Flourens. Paris, Garnier ,1853. 12 large volumes in-8 (27,5x19 cm), red half-chagrin (small rubbings), spines decorated in ribbed boxes, red percaline boards. Numerous plates engraved on steel after the drawings of Traviès and put in colors, serpents (foxing).