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471 - BUFFON, Georges-Louis Leclerc de Histoire naturelle des oiseaux. Paris Imprimerie Royale 1770-1783 9 vol., 4to; 255 (of 262) pl. (text n.c., some light spotting and sm. foxing, occ. stains, some browned lvs in a few vol., min. accident after gluing a page onto the opposite plate in vol. 4 p. 344). Contemp. mottled calf, gilt-orn. spines with raised bands, red and black title-labels, red edges (some min. def.). Nice set. First edition for this part of "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière, avec la description du cabinet du roi" (vol. XVI-XXIV), ill. with 255 pl. (pl. XXIV-XXVII missing in vol. 2), mostly by Jacques de Sève. Ref. Nissen (VBI) 158 & (ZBI) 672. - Ronsil 413. - Anker 76. Prov. François-Victor Bravais (1764-1852), French doctor of medicine and botanist, father of Auguste, a physicist and mineralogist, and of Louis-François, doctor and botanist at Bicêtre Hospital (stamp in each vol.).
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BUFFON, Georges-Louis Leclerc de Histoire naturelle des oiseaux. Paris Imprimerie Royale 1770-1783 9 vol., 4to; 255 (of 262) pl. (text n.c., some light spotting and sm. foxing, occ. stains, some browned lvs in a few vol., min. accident after gluing a page onto the opposite plate in vol. 4 p. 344). Contemp. mottled calf, gilt-orn. spines with raised bands, red and black title-labels, red edges (some min. def.). Nice set. First edition for this part of "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière, avec la description du cabinet du roi" (vol. XVI-XXIV), ill. with 255 pl. (pl. XXIV-XXVII missing in vol. 2), mostly by Jacques de Sève. Ref. Nissen (VBI) 158 & (ZBI) 672. - Ronsil 413. - Anker 76. Prov. François-Victor Bravais (1764-1852), French doctor of medicine and botanist, father of Auguste, a physicist and mineralogist, and of Louis-François, doctor and botanist at Bicêtre Hospital (stamp in each vol.).
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