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BUFFON (Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de). Natural history of birds. Tome premier. Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1770. Large in-4 (33 x 25 cm) contemporary green boards. Binding very worn and missing. [3] ff, xxii-[2]-313 pp, [1] f. Several leaves detached. Marginal tears, not missing. Several small wormholes. With 38 plates engraved by MARTINET and AQUARELLED out of 75 (including one plate not listed in the table of plates in fine: n°429 Vautour de Norvège). All plates have been detached from the body of the book. Two of them have a large tear with loss affecting the frame of the engraving, large tear without loss on some, 6 are very foxed. Small pinholes in margins. As is.

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BUFFON (Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de). Natural history of birds. Tome premier. Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1770. Large in-4 (33 x 25 cm) contemporary green boards. Binding very worn and missing. [3] ff, xxii-[2]-313 pp, [1] f. Several leaves detached. Marginal tears, not missing. Several small wormholes. With 38 plates engraved by MARTINET and AQUARELLED out of 75 (including one plate not listed in the table of plates in fine: n°429 Vautour de Norvège). All plates have been detached from the body of the book. Two of them have a large tear with loss affecting the frame of the engraving, large tear without loss on some, 6 are very foxed. Small pinholes in margins. As is.

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