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434 - FORTY EIGHTH-CENTURY WORKS: THE WORKS OF BUFFON, REORGANIZED AND ENRICHED WITH DETAILS FROM HIS LIFE AND AN OVERVIEW OF ADVANCES IN NATURAL HISTORY BY THE COUNT OF LACÉPÈDE. FIRST ITALIAN EDITION ADORNED WITH NEW AND DILIGENT ENGRAVINGS, published in Venice at the Apollo Bookstore, printed by Giuseppe Molinari, 1820. Contemporary bindings in plain marbled cardboard. The most valuable and rare edition of this famous compendium, highly prized for the beauty of its plates, engraved by Giuseppe Zuliani, Giuseppe Rosaspina, Giovanni Battista Torcellan, and Aliprandi (Bibliography: Nissen, 730; Graesse, I, 567). The 40-volume edition “with internal engravings” contains both the text and the corresponding illustrated plates, which are bound directly within each volume according to the subject matter covered. Volumes are not collated. Approximately 18,000 pages (each volume contains 400 to 550 pages) with 496 zoological plates, 16 general plates, and 7 sheets of scientific tables; a few scattered and rare foxing spots. A few small tears in two volumes, but the pages are still intact.
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FORTY EIGHTH-CENTURY WORKS: THE WORKS OF BUFFON, REORGANIZED AND ENRICHED WITH DETAILS FROM HIS LIFE AND AN OVERVIEW OF ADVANCES IN NATURAL HISTORY BY THE COUNT OF LACÉPÈDE. FIRST ITALIAN EDITION ADORNED WITH NEW AND DILIGENT ENGRAVINGS, published in Venice at the Apollo Bookstore, printed by Giuseppe Molinari, 1820. Contemporary bindings in plain marbled cardboard. The most valuable and rare edition of this famous compendium, highly prized for the beauty of its plates, engraved by Giuseppe Zuliani, Giuseppe Rosaspina, Giovanni Battista Torcellan, and Aliprandi (Bibliography: Nissen, 730; Graesse, I, 567). The 40-volume edition “with internal engravings” contains both the text and the corresponding illustrated plates, which are bound directly within each volume according to the subject matter covered. Volumes are not collated. Approximately 18,000 pages (each volume contains 400 to 550 pages) with 496 zoological plates, 16 general plates, and 7 sheets of scientific tables; a few scattered and rare foxing spots. A few small tears in two volumes, but the pages are still intact.
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Vintage Posters & Antique BooksAuction house
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