Buffon

33343 — By George Louis le Clerc Count of Buffon ; translated from the French by W. Smellie. A new edition corrected and enlarged. To which is added a history of birds fishes reptiles and insects embracing the recent discoveries of eminent naturalists together with an account of the most curious foreign plants by Henry Augustus Chambers LL. D. London : Thomas Kelly 1866. Two volumes quarto full straight-grain green morocco with blind and gilt floriated borders spines in compartments with contrasting morocco title labels and gilt ornamentation headcaps renewed and hinges repaired engraved title page in the first volume alternatively titled History of the earth and animated nature exhibiting the delineations of the most distinguished wild animals in the various menageries of this country with a hand coloured engraving of a tiger by J. Webb pp. 682; viii index; 462; viii index folding hand coloured map of the world old miscreases 95 fine hand-coloured plates of birds mammals reptiles fish insects plants etc including the plates of the African Negro and the White Negro sometimes missing the portrait frontispiece of Count de Buffon not bound in a few short tears to the margins occasional light foxing a very good copy. A condensed English translation of Buffon's encyclopaedic Histoire Naturelle the superior edition with the plates vibrantly coloured by hand. Includes some Australian content such as a fine illustration of the emu. unknown