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1783880P2Paris: L'Imprimerie Royale 1783-88. First edition. Leather. Very Good. 6.5" by 4". None. Comte de Buffon's important natural history work these nine volumes focusing solely on the history of minerals a nice set in the original French. The first edition.Complete in nine volumes.In the original French.Half-titles present to Volumes III to IX.'Histoire Naturelle' is an encylopaedic work originally running to 36 volumes by Buffon being continued by his colleagues led by Lacepede after his death.These nine volumes focus on minerals and was the last work published during Buffon's lifetime the author dying in 1788. The last volume in this set includes 'Traité de l"Aimant'.This was an incredibly important resource on the subject of natural history in eighteenth century France providing a wealth of information on all living things.'Histoire Naturelle des Mineraux' was a departure from the rest of Buffon's 'Histoire Naturelle' set as 'Mineraux' was not illustrated. Buffon collaborated on this series on minerals by Andre Thouin Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond and Louis Bernard Guyton de Morveau.Stamp of 'St. Hugh's Parkminster' to the title pages. St Hugh's Charterhouse is the only post-reformation Carthusian monastery in the U.K. a Gothic Revival structure founded in 1873. In the original calf binding. Externally generally smart. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spines and to the extremities a very small amount of loss to the head of the spine of Volume I and lifting to the head of the spines of Volumes VII and IX. A little light rubbing to the joints heavier rubbing to the front board of Volume II. Heavier rubbing with a small amount of loss to the tail of the rear board of Volume V. A small amount of loss of leather to the tail of the front board of Volume VII. Second spine label of Volume VIII is lifting. Heavier rubbing to the front board of Volume IX. A few light marks to the boards including a larger mark to the rear board of Volume I to the front board of Volume III and to the rear board of Volume IV. Two small worm holes to the front joint and one to the rear joint of Volume III. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Stamp to the title pages. First and last few pages of Volume IV are age-toned. Very Good L'Imprimerie Royale hardcover
1770901F25Paris: L'Imprimerie Royale 1770-1775. First edition. Leather. Good. 7" by 4.5". Not Stated. The first six volumes only of the first edition of the Comte de Buffon's lavishly illustrated natural history work on birds. In the original French.The first six volumes only of the eighteen volume first edition of this work on birds part of Buffon's influential 'Histoire Naturelle'.'Histoire Naturelle' is an encyclopaedic work originally running to 36 volumes by Buffon being continued by his colleagues led by Lacepede after his death.An extensive study of birds an essential work of natural history which explores many different species of birds accompanied by detailed engravings.This was an incredibly important resource on the subject of natural history in eighteenth century France providing a wealth of information on all living things accompanied by detailed engravings.Volume I is illustrated with fourteen plates.Volume II is illustrated with fifteen plates.Volume III is illustrated with nine plates.Volume IV is illustrated with eighteen plates.Volume V is illustrated with nineteen plates.Volume VI is illustrated with twelve plates.Half titles to volumes I II and VI.With the inscription of 'Dan. de la Cherois' to the tail of the volume I title page. In full calf bindings with gilt detailing to back strips. Significant rubbing to joints and back strip heads and tails. Small losses of leather to volume V and VI back strip tails with further minor losses to head of volume I and V back strips. Lacking half of volume III title spine label with partial remnants of only two volume number labels. A touch of worming to head of volume VI front joint. Internally firmly bound. Inscription to volume I title page tail. Pages bright and generally clean though a touch age toned due to paper type. Good L'Imprimerie Royale hardcover
1799mon0003855967Paris: Hacquart & Richard 1799. Hardcover. Good. . 10 volume set volumes 1 - 10. 8vo. leather spines with gilt decoration marbled boards covers show minor wear and rubbing. pages lightly tanned and clean French language text. Paris: Hacquart & Richard hardcover
177089949Paris: Imprimerie royale 1770. Fine. Mrs Necker: ""Animals seemed to be the most distant from us and Buffon's art lay in constantly bringing them closer"" our own translation Imprimerie royale Paris 1770-1783 20 x 26.4 cm relié First edition from the Imprimerie Royale complete in nine quarto volumes with all 262 black-and-white engraved plates. Contemporary full mottled calf spines with raised bands decorated with guilloche tooling and gilt ornaments in the compartments red morocco lettering-pieces and numbering-pieces triple gilt fillet border on boards double gilt fillet on board edges marbled endpapers and pastedowns marbled edges. Minor variations in the tooling on volume 3. In this set some headcaps missing 6 cm joints split at foot of volume 1 6.5 cm and 6 cm at foot of volume 2 3.5 cm at head of volume 3 corners bumped scratches and minor restoration to boards including a more significant repair on volume 7 measuring 11 cm browning in left margin of lower board of volume 4. In this copy: some worming several instances of dampstaining throughout the set more pronounced in volumes 1 3 and 8 some tears restored on the title page and on pp. ix and xxiii of volume 1 also restored on p. 496 of volume 2 on pp. 259 and 260 of volume 3 on pp. 481 and 482 of volume 4 and on pp. 173 to 176 of volume 5. Copy with some marginal annotations: in volume 2 a manuscript footnote added in ink on p. 541 ""Voyez les Planches enluminures n°491"" erroneous manuscript dates in ink in volumes 2 and 8 the number ""18"" annotated in ink in the upper right corner of the rear endpaper of volume 9. Copy richly illustrated with drawings by Jacques de Sève engraved by Robert de Launay Lucas Michel Madeleine-Thérèse Rousselet C. Baron Hubert Catherine Haussard Carl Gottlieb Guttenberg Jean-Guillaume Blanchon Menil Dufour Louis Claude Legrand Claude Mathieu Fessard Elisabeth Haussard François Hubert A.-B. Duhamel Mlle Mansard C. Baquoy Heinrich Guttenberg Laurent Guyot Benazeth Schmitz Marie-Anne Rousselet M. R. veuve Tardieu Louis-Gabriel Monnier Pierre-Étienne Moitte Jean-Louis de Lignon Levillain N. du Four Thomas Chambars Nicolas Thomas Luigi Valperga and George Louis Biosse. Accompanied by two additional plates heightened in color numbered XX and XXII from a volume 7 of the Histoire naturelle des oiseaux. The illustrator Jacques de Sève's main work was unquestionably the Histoire naturelle générale et particulière for which he executed nearly 2000 drawings. Unlike the illustrations he produced for other sections of Buffon's monumental work made primarily from stuffed specimens his work on birds was essentially executed from living models. To accomplish this vast project Jacques de Sève drew inspiration from the works of the king's ""Peintre ordinaire"" Jean-Baptiste Oudry. This judicious decision won him the favor of the queen a great admirer of the master of animal painting. By incorporating small Boucher-style putti in the introductory vignettes of certain volumes of the Histoire naturelle des oiseaux Sève also gained the good graces of the king's mistress. These illustrations at once decorative and scholarly which appear in the present first edition were not retained in the duodecimo edition. A superb complete copy of Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon's Histoire naturelle des oiseaux by the French Pliny. As Ferdinand Hoefer wrote this work maintains the same ""magnificence of style"" as the other publications in the Histoire naturelle générale et particulière. Imprimerie royale hardcover
1799222Paris: L’Imprimerie de Crapelet Chez Deterville rue du Battoir n. 16 1799. Hardcover. Good. René Richard Castel ed. Georges-Louis Leclerc au. Histoire naturelle de Buffon classée par ordres genres et espèces d'après le systême de Linné avec les caractères génériques et la nomenclacture Linnéenne par René- Richard Castel auteur du poëme des Plantes. Paris: L’Imprimerie de Crapelet Chez Deterville rue du Battoir n. 16 An VII 1799.Interior Condition: Good. Paris printed by the Imprimerie Crapelet 1799 uses French Republican calendar 32mo pp. iii 1-317 i; π3 1 61 2-3 6 4 6 1 5 -7 6 8 62 9 6 10 62 11 61 12-13 6 14-15 61 16 6 17 -18 61 19 61 20 61 21- 22 6 23 61 24 6 25- 26 61 27 3 one worm hole extending from prelims to p. 61 some minor foxing throughout but many clean pages; 15 full-page double paned illustrations.; no reader marks. Binding Condition: Good. Full leather bound gold tooling with decorative gold stamping on spine title on red leather series number on green leather age evident with some separation between front cover board and spine still very strongly attached corners have wear and leather has received some damage on back cover.This book is one volume in a set of 36. While ideally it will complete a collection of the Crapelet-Deterville Buffon set it also stands as a wonderful single volume with 15-double paned illustrations of many four-legged animals. Georges-Louis Leclerc Count of Buffon 1707-1788 produced his encyclopedic work of 36 volumes over the course of 50 years and is known as one of the chief naturalists of the 18th century. Among other paradigm-changing contributions to understanding the natural world Buffon's works challenged calculation that the world was 6 000 years old and his claim of the superiority of European flora and fauna to that of North America affronted Thomas Jefferson so much that he sent examples to Europe in order to disprove Buffon's assertion. L’Imprimerie de Crapelet, Chez Deterville, rue du Battoir, n. 16 hardcover
1785323831785. This print comes from the monumental work "Histoire Naturelle générale et particulière" Natural History General and Particular by the famous French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc Comte de Buffon. Published circa 1782 original copper engraving with hand-colouring. unknown
17921305120001Berne: Nouvelle societe typographique 1792-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 13 volume set. Plates; Charts. French. Clean unmarked pages. Contemporary light blue boards some slightly bent at edge. Deckle cut. Generally solid bindings. Some wear to spine edges. See our pictures. I-III : Theorie de la terre. IV-VII : Mineralogie. VIII : Epoques de la nature. IX-XIII : Histoire generale des animaux et de l'homme. Berne: Nouvelle societe typographique hardcover
178848877à Paris: De l' imprimerie des Bâtiments du roi 1788. Fine. De l' imprimerie des Bâtiments du roi à Paris 1788 20 x 25.50 cm relié First edition of this treatise published following the four volumes whose editorial dates run from 1782 for the first volume to 1788 for the last namely the Traité de l'aimant which is therefore often missing from the series. Contemporary full red morocco binding. Spine with raised bands richly decorated. Title and volume labels in black morocco. Triple fillet frame on covers. Roulette on leading edges and board-edges. Gilt edges. Domino paper with gilt stars. Corners rubbed. Very handsome copy perfectly bound in a master binding very fresh. The Traité de l'aimant is the last work published during the author's lifetime and closes the Histoire naturelle whose edition spanned fifty years and which enjoyed success comparable to Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie. The treatise proper is followed by numerous tables of observations on the inclination of the magnetic needle with the names of travelers and navigators in the southern and northern hemispheres according to different latitudes. The treatise begins with an exposition of magnetic and electric forces. De l' imprimerie des Bâtiments du roi hardcover
17505815Three volumes in six parts of a married set in full calf. 20 x 25 cm. Some worming to heads of spines see image occasional foxing; otherwise a handsome & sturdy set. Georg Christian Grund & Adam Heinrich Holle hardcover
17691610270041Paris: Imprimerie Royale 1769. Hardcover. Good. 14 volumes. Bound in contemporary French mottled calf. Gilt stamps spines. Good bindings and covers. Some minor edge wear. All edges red. Marginal dampstaining affecting plates in Volume 9. Occasional spotting. Supplement and Volumes 7 and 8 have sprung leaves. Profusely illustrated with 202 engraved plates 2 folding maps folding chart. <br><br> Georges-Louis Leclerc Comte de Buffon was a noted scientist whose monumental works in natural sciences influenced the next two generations of naturalists including Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Georges Cuvier. Mayr The Growth of Biological Thought. p 330 Buffon's work was based on the methods of observation and experimentation. He raised many of the fundamental problems of biology in a scientific context. One of Buffon's most important contributions was the popularization of the old earth theory in opposition to Archbishop Ussher's biblical earth time-line. <br><br> Buffon was an important pre-cursor to Darwin. Cited as the father of biogeography Buffon's Law postulated that creatures "improved" and "degenerated" after dispersing from a center of creation. He based his theory on comparative anatomy studies. Buffon tried to explain the origin of living things by spontaneous generation of elementary particles and its development as a consequence of climate and diet. Buffon argued that all members of a family of species descended from the same ancestors a "unity of type". <br><br> Contents:T. 1. Premier discours. Second discours. Preuves de la theorie de la terre: article I-VIII --t. 2. Article IX-XIX. Conclusion --t. 3. Histoire generale des animaux: chapitre I-IX --t. 4. Chapitre X-XI. Recapitulation. Histoire naturelle de l'homme --t. 5. Varietes dans l'espece humaine. Discours sur la nature des animaux. Letters de MM. les deputes & syndic de la Faculte de theologie a M. de Buffon avec les reponse & declaration de M. de Buffon. Discours prononce a l'Academie francoise --t. 6. Les animaux domestiques --t. 7-12. Les animaux sauvages --t. 13. Concordance & table alphabetique des noms pour les animaux quadrupedes. Supplement III. <br> This is an oversized or heavy book that requires additional postage for international delivery outside of Canada and the US. Paris: Imprimerie Royale hardcover
17691108290016Paris: de L'Imprimerie Royale 1769. Leather Bound. Very Good. Paris: de L'Imprimerie Royale. Tome 1: Premier discours. Second discours. Preuves de la theorie de la terre: article I-VIII. 1 l. viii 451 3 l. 12mo. French. Fully bound in contemporary brown calf-skin leather. 5 raised bands. 6 compartments. Burgundy Morocco title stamp with gilt lettering. Expertly repaired at spine and edges of boards. Protected with clear lacquer coating. Vertical crack along center of spine has been sealed and repaired. Tight binding and solid boards. Slight shelf wear. Minor bumping to corners. Slight rubbing to boards. Scuffing to board edges. Minor discoloration around outer edges of endpapers. Otherwise clean unmarked pages. Inlaid woodcut flourishes throughout. Good text block. Text is crisp and clear. A beautifully preserved volume in very good condition.<br><br>Compte de Buffon was a French naturalist mathematician cosmologist and encyclopedic author. His works influenced the next two generations of naturalists including Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Georges Cuvier. Buffon published thirty-six quarto volumes of his Histoire naturelle during his lifetime; with additional volumes based on his notes and further research being published in the two decades following his death. It has been said that "Truly Buffon was the father of all thought in natural history in the second half of the 18th century." His anthology on Natural history has been reprinted and translated numerous times this being an earlier edition in original French. Please feel free to view our photographs of this fascinating piece of classic naturalist literature. Ships daily. Paris: de L'Imprimerie Royale hardcover
17706314Imprimerie Royale Paris c. 1770; Original copper engraving after a drawing by Jacque de Seve depicting a sea lion in its natural environment a style De Seve is credited with having originated and a departure from the works of previous natural history artists who typically placed their subjects in an unpopulated void of blank space. Plate XLVIII from Volume VI of Buffon’s monumental Histoire Naturelle published in 36 volumes between the years 1749 and 1788. Engraved by Marie Rousselet Tardieu widow of eminent cartographer and engraver Pierre Francois Tardieu and one of only a few documented female engravers. Printed on laid paper. Fine original condition with no attempts at later colorization. Hinged and matted entirely acid free with 100% rag museum board ready for framing. Sheet size 7 3/4" x 10 3/8" plate mark 6 1/2" x 8 3/4" outside matte dimensions 11" x 14". An exceptional print. Imprimerie Royale unknown
17806326Germany 1780; Circa 1780 copper engraving of the Pyrenean Desman Galemys pyrenaicus diminutive amphibious mammal related to the mole and shrew native to portions of Northern Spain and Portugal. Once widespread throughout Europe only two species of remain one in the Pyrenes as here and the other in remote regions of Russia. An original plate from an 18th c. German edition of Buffon’s Histoire Naturelle. Engraved by G.P. Trautner after the drawing by Jacques de Seve depicting the subject in its natural setting. Plate number at top II Tab. 9 Seite Sheet size 7 1/2" x 9 1/2" plate mark 6 1/4" x 8 1/4". Printed on laid paper. Hinged and matted entirely acid free with 100% rag museum board in 11" x 14" size ready for framing. Original state with no later attempts at colorization. Fine condition. An attractive print of an uncommon mammal. unknown
17806327Germany 1780; Circa 1780 copper engraving after the drawing of Jacques de Seve of a Paca the large stub-tailed semi-aquatic mammal indigenous to tropical regions of South America once used as a food source in Brazil. The Paca is shown here in its natural setting alongside its offspring of which seldom more than one is produced at birth. An original plate from an 18th c. German edition of Buffon’s Histoire Naturelle. Plate and page numbers at top XVII Tab. 157 Seite. Sheet size 7 1/2" x 9 1/2" plate mark 6 1/4" x 8 1/4". Printed on laid paper. Hinge-mounted entirely acid free and matted with 100% rag museum board in 11" x 14" size ready for framing. Fine and handsome original condition with no later attempts at colorization. unknown
17806328Germany 1780; Circa 1780 copper engraving after a Jacques de Seve drawing of the Civet Cat Viverra sp. from an 18th c. German edition of Buffon’s Histoire Naturelle. The Civet a skunk-like mammal indigenous to the South Asian and African tropics was at one time essential to the manufacture of perfumes for the musk oil extracted from its perineal gland. Plate and page numbers engraved at top Taf. XXXIV 181 Seite. Sheet size 7 1/2" x 9 1/2" plate mark 6 3/8" x 9". Printed on laid paper. Hinge-mounted entirely acid free and matted with 100% rag museum board in 11" x 14" size ready for framing. Original state with no later attempts at colorization. Fine and handsome. unknown
177089949Imprimerie royale | Paris 1770-1783 | 20 x 26.4 cm | relié
178848877De l' imprimerie des Bâtiments du roi | à Paris 1788 | 20 x 25.50 cm | relié
1765B7181Paris c.1765. One plate with small tear at gutter not affecting plate. Interior generally crisp and clean colours vivid. Binding: Half brown calf over marbled paper boards. Spine with 5 raised bands red morocco label in second compartment green morocco label in fourth compartment gilt rolls on bands. Notes: Edme-Louis Daubenton 12 August 1730 – 12 December 1785 was a French naturalist. Daubenton was the cousin of another French naturalist Louis Jean-Marie Daubenton. Georges-Louis Leclerc the Comte de Buffon engaged Edme-Louis Daubenton to supervise the coloured illustrations for the monumental Histoire Naturelle 1749–89. The Planches Enluminee started to appear in 1765 and finally accounted for 1008 plates all engraved by François-Nicolas Martinet 1731–1800 and all painted by hand. The Parisian publisher Panckoucke published a version without text between 1765 and 1783.<br>The Histoire Naturelle générale et particulière avec la description du Cabinet du Roi is an encyclopaedic collection of 36 large quarto volumes written between 1749 and 1789 by the Comte de Buffon. The books cover what was known of the "natural sciences" at the time including what would now be called material science physics chemistry and technology as well as the natural history of animals.<br>A de luxe edition of Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux 1771–1786 was produced by the Imprimerie royale in 10 folio and quarto volumes with 1008 engraved and hand-coloured plates executed under Buffon's personal supervision by Edme-Louis Daubenton cousin and brother-in-law of Buffon's principal collaborator Louis Jean-Marie Daubenton. The plates were originally issued in 42 cahiers each containing 24 plates and no accompanying text or titles.<br> Size: Folio 460 x 315mm Illustration: A beautifully bound collection of 100 handcoloured plates produced by Daubenton for the Comte de Buffon’s Histoire Naturelle which was issued in multiple parts between 1765 and 1783 and came to encompass over 1000 plates. The numbered plates depict birds from many parts of the world including Africa Canada Mexico France Italy Brazil China and America. The present volume represents an impressive compilation of plates originally issued across different parts the numbering not always chronological. One plate with etched caption crossed and rewritten in contemporary hand. Category: Book Natural History; Book Plate Books Colour; hardcover
17711424Paris: Imprimerie Royale 1771. Ephemera no binding. Fine. Jacques DeSÈVE. EPHEMERA MATTED PRINT. C. BAQUOY engraver. 4to plate size; hand-colored copper plate engraving; 7 " X 5 7/8" within the print borders plate line visible; 2 light spots under the title; 14" x 11" custom acid-free archival backing and French matting with hand-applied gilt striping. Fine. From George-Louis LeClerc Comte de Buffon's Histoire naturelle générale et particulière 1749-1778 in 36 volumes a fine copper-plate engraving featuring a regal brown and white spotted Mastiff surveying the world from his perch. Imprimerie Royale unknown
17711423Paris: Imprimerie Royale 1771. Ephemera no binding. Fine. Jacques DeSÈVE. EPHEMERA MATTED PRINT. Pierre Etienne MOITTE engraver. 4to plate size; hand-colored copper plate engraving; 7 5/8" x 5 7/8" within the print borders plate line visible; 14" x 11" custom acid-free archival backing and French matting with hand-applied gilt striping. Fine. From George-Louis LeClerc Comte de Buffon's Histoire naturelle générale et particulière 1749-1778 in 36 volumes a fine copper-plate engraving featuring a Pug dog tail unclipped and curled in a stately pose with a fountain and Roman ruins in the background. Imprimerie Royale unknown
179884382London: H. D. Symonds Paternoster-Row 1798. Volume 5 only. Text bright with some light foxing and tanning small bookplate on front pastedown binding firm chipping to edges of boards with gilt decs faded from spine but overall quite neat for its age. Hard. Very Good Minus. 8vo. H. D. Symonds Paternoster-Row Hardcover
1780035338Edinburgh: William Creech printed for 1780 The classic text from the father of all thought regarding natural history in the second half of the 18th century. Includes the first 2 volumes of the 36-volume set regarding the history and theory of the earth and a general history of animals respectively. Both fold-out plates in volumes 1 are present in terrific condition. From the collection of Wayne Prescott Suttles renowned anthropologist scholar and linguist regarding many Pacific cultures and especially the U.S. Pacific Northwest Coast Salish people. Provenance provided upon request. Condition notes: 514 numbered pp vol 1 and 517 numbered pp vol 2; HB. Pages: clean ivory tight red speckled edgestain portrait frontis vol 1; back boar disbound but present front board wiggly but hanging in there edges tanned textblock solid and clean. Cover: textured tan cloth w/ sheepskin backstrip and tips gilt titles to black spineblock 5 raised bands; substantial shelfwear extrems well worn leather worn through joints cracked. Rebind copy w/ all parts present. William Creech (printed for) hardcover
1791018552Sl Padoue Sd1791. Un volume 21x29 cm con 112 tavole incise da Scattaglia 24 delle quali incise da Benard sono replicate con coloritura a mano dell'epoca. Qualche brunitura qualche rara piccola macchia un paio di strappi al margine bianco ma nel complesso incisioni in condizioni molto buone e di ottimo stampo. Le incisioni in bn sono opera di Scattaglia mentre quelle colorate sono di Benard. Le tavole sono precedute solo dalla pagina di titolo Planches des quadrupedes. Première partie con bollo di proprietà vistoso e con ex libris Polesini al retro del piatto. Il volume di quadrupedi eseguito da Daubenton faceva parte della pubblicazione Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois regnes de la nature pubblicato sia a Parigi da Pankoucke sia a Padova alla Stamperia del Seminario. Legatura coeva in mezza pelle del primo Ottocento con titolo dorato al dorso qualche spellatura e piatti con carta marmorizzata. Louis Daubenton 1716-1799 descrisse circa 200 specie di quadrupedi nei primi volumi dell'opera di Buffon con tale esattezza e precisione da servire da base allo sviluppo dell'anatomia comparata. Pietro Scattaglia 1739-1810 veneziano fu incisore ed editore di stampe nella sua Calcografia Magna. unknown
1785SET48-H-1London: W Strahan and T Cadell 1785. Leather. Good. 8.5" by 5.5". Various. Nine volumes of this popular of natural history. Scarce in this particular translation especially in this complete state. A very good early translation of this classic work in a lovely original binding. Some hinges needing attention but still great to see in this binding. Clean and bright internally. Natural History General and Particular discusses several differing species in the animal kingdom from Apes to the Hippopotamus. Volume IX is a corrections and additions volume providing lots of further information. There are 307 illustrated plates across all volumes conveying numerous animals such as dogs cats and elephants. Collated complete with all plates. Comte de Buffon was a French author and his natural history was originally published from 1749-1804. It spanned to an encyclopedic collection of 36 quartos. This English translation was published prior to the to completion of this work. The work ended up being limited to the animal and mineral kingdoms. This translation has numerous notes and observations by William Smellie a Scottish encyclopedist and naturalist. The Second Edition of this translation. In full tree calf bindings. Externally generally smart with patches of rubbing to the spines joints and extremities. Split to the front joint of volume I. Front hinge to volume I is tender with cords showing. Small loss to the head of spine to volume I. Rear joint to volume I is starting but firm with the hinge tender. Hinges to volume II are starting but firm. Front joint and hinge to volume III have failed and board is detached. Front endpaper has also detached. Rear joint and hinge to vol III is weak and may detach with further handling. Loss to the head and tail of spine to vol IV. Front joint and hinge to volume V are tender with cords showing. Rear joint to vol V is starting but firm with the hinge slightly strained but firm. Front joint and hinge to volume VI are strained. Loss to the head and tail of spine to volume VI also. Both joints and hinges to volume VII are tender with cords showing. Loss to the head of spine and joints to volume VIII. Front joint and hinge to volume VIII are strained but firm. Front hinge and joint to volume IX are weak and held by one cord only. May detach with further handling. Small crack to head of rear joint to vol IX resulting in the hinge being strained but firm. Prior owner's bookplate to the front pastedown with the monogram C R. Internally all volumes are firmly bound. Pages are generally bright with som instances of light scattered spots. Good W Strahan and T Cadell hardcover
17862885069Madrid.: Viuda de Ibarra. 1786. Hardcover. Cubierta deslucida. Good. 20 cm. 455 p. Encuadernación en tapa dura artesanal en plena piel con tejuelo. Cubierta deslucida. Historia.93 93 Viuda de Ibarra. hardcover
