Ventes live - Lot 646
[Natural history]
Oeuvres complètes [...], suivies de ses continuateurs Daubenton, Lacépède, Cuvier [...]. Seule édition complète, avec figures coloriées.
Brussels, Th. Lejeune, 1828-1833
€ 300 / 400
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Description du lot
20 vol., 8vo (some foxing). Text: 14 vol. (n.c., fold. plan in vol. IV lacking). Plates: 6 vol.
Contemp. half calf, marbled paper on boards, gilt- and blind-tooled spines with raised bands (sl. rubbed). Vol. VI (pl.): half brown shagreen, spine with raised bands.
Illustrated with 741 plates: 2 portraits (Buffon, Daubenton), 2 allegorical plates, 2 double page maps, 56 pl. on the "Theory of Earth", 469 pl. on mammals, 210 on birds.
Ref. Nissen (ZBI) 689 (mentions 739 pl.).