Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière. Nouvelle édition [...]. Redigé par C.S. Sonnini.

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.