Live auction - Lot 1239
[Natural history]
Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière. Nouvelle édition [...]. Redigé par C.S. Sonnini.
Paris, F. Dufart, an VII [- XIII] [1799 [- 1808]]
Hammer price: €
1.200
€ 600 / 800
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Lot description
127 vol., 8vo (n.c., occ. defects but overall in good condition).
Original cardboard, flat spines with paper title labels (a bit dusty, some more rubbed than others, 1 spine missing). Uncut and partly unopened copy.
Complete run of a new ed. of this renowned work by Buffon (1707-1788), edited by the French naturalist C.-N.-S. Sonnini de Manoncourt (1751-1812). Vol. devoted to general subjects (incl. the theory of the earth and mineralogy), to quadrupeds, birds, fish, cetaceans, reptiles (by Daudin), molluscs (by Denys-Monfort), to crustaceans and insects (by P.A. Latreille) and plants (by C.F. Brisseau-Mirbel). Ill. with more than 1.000 pl. Complete with 2 vol. of tables.
Ref. Nissen (ZBI) 682.