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185041991Madrid: Establecimiento Tipográfico de D. Francisco de Paula Mellado 1847-1850.- 35 VOLS. XXXVI488 p. 1 h. 2 mapas plegados / 428 p. / 622 p. 6 lams. y 1 mapa plegado / 493 p. 1 h. 8 lams. / 480 p. 10 lams. / 502 p. 7 lams. / 469 p. 5 lams. / 493 p. 1 h. 6 lams. / 526 p. 1 h. 7 lams. / 539 p. 1 h. 7 lams. / 582 p. 7 lams. / 566 p. / 547 p. 1 h. / 488 p. 20 lams. / 454 p. 25 lams. / 558 p. / 608 p. / 492 p. / 507 p. 1 h. 5 lams. / 558 p. 1 h. 2 lams. / 565 p. 1 h. 2 lams. / 489 p. 1 h. 18 lams. / 656 p. 24 lams. / 521 p. 1 h. 5 lams. / 499 p. 1 h. 1 lam. / 438 p. 1 h. 1 lam. / 476 p. 1 h. 5 lams. / 486 p. 1 h. 4 lams. / 495 p. 5 lams./ 502 p. 1 h. 4 lams./ 488 p./ 613 p. 1 h. 3 lams./ 524 p./ 557 p. / 581 p.: En total contiene 190 vistosas láminas grabadas en madera xilografÃas incluso los 3 mapas; 8º menor 17 x 115 cm.; Buena impresión sobre papel blanco y firme; Finamente encuadernado en Media Piel a puntas de la época con el lomo bellamente dorado y los cortes levemente jaspeados en tono rojizo. EJEMPLAR EN MAGNIFICO ESTADO TOTALMENTE COMPLETO EN PAGINAS Y LAMINAS. ZOOLOGÃA BIOLOGÃA ANIMAL ECOLOGÃA EN GENERAL Y MEDIO AMBIENTE Libro en español Establecimiento Tipográfico de D. Francisco de Paula Mellado hardcover
183316613Barcelona: A. Bergnes 1833. 1st. Hardcover. First Spanish edition; Barcelona edition. 31 of 58 volumes present. Small 12mo. Various pagination. 15 of 31 volumes have tissue-guarded color plates; 3 volumes have fold-out color illustrations - maps; 2 volumes have black & white fold-out illustrations; charts; illustration of microscopes and other instruments. Uniform set in full brown tree calf leather; marbled end papers; gilt titles and illustration to spines; all edges marbled. Light wear to extremities more so to corners and spine ends; closed tears to spines of several volumes; chipping to edges; fading to gilt; bindings still strong. Very good. 31 of 58 total volumes including Aves: Tomo Primero III V VII IX XI XIII XV XVII XIX; Historia del Hombre Tomo I III V; Cuadrupedos Tomo Primero III V VII IX XI XIII; Theoria de la Tierria Tomo III V; Mineralogis Tomo Primero III; Historia de los Animales Tomo Primero. A. Bergnes hardcover
1816C217705London: Sherwood Neely and Jones 1816. Hardcover Hardcover. Very Good. Vol. 5 only. Small octavo. vii 386 2pp. 6 plates. Contemporary half leather over cloth boards. Slight rubbing and wear to covers lacks backstrip otherwise very good with bright solid contents. Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, hardcover
1812472829Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies London 1812. Fair. 1812. Hardcover. hardback 8vo complete in 20 volumes with frontispiece and 679 of 680 numbered plates including 2 folding maps. lacks plate 211 at v.6 p122 'The Crab-Eater' which was apparently not bound in. Marbled edges and endpapers some light foxing and offsetting from many of the plates contents otherwise clean and tight throughout no inscriptions or ownership marks all internal bindings are tight full leather binding gilt-decorated spines 16 boards are detached and most of the other spine joints are weak and cracking boards slightly rubbed spines worn in places with some fraying at spine ends and lacking 2 upper and one lower spine title labels. Fair condition . Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, London, 1812, hardcover
1812004503London: T. Cadell and W. Davies 1812. New Enlarged Edition. Hardcover. Good. Copperplate Engravings . 8vo 419 pages contemporary full calf joints rehinged inked name on half-title page no spine labels. <br/><br/>Translated by William Smellie editor of The Encyclopedia Britannica. Vol. 4 of 20 : covering the Domesticated Animals especially dogs. 49 copperplates. PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 198. T. Cadell and W. Davies hardcover
1812004505London: T. Cadell and W. Davies 1812. New Enlarged Edition. Hardcover. Good. Copperplate Engravings . Octavo 439 pages contemporary full calf rear cover detached inked name on half-title page no spine labels. <br/><br/>Translated by William Smellie editor of The Encyclopedia Britannica. Vol. 6 of 20 : covering a Dissertation on Tigers Rodents Bats etc. 65 copperplates. PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 198. T. Cadell and W. Davies hardcover
1812004512London: T. Cadell and W. Davies 1812. New Enlarged Edition. Hardcover. Good. Copperplate Engravings . Octavo 514 pages contemporary full calf inked name on half-title page no spine labels <br/><br/>Translated by William Smellie editor of The Encyclopedia Britannica. Vols. 19 of 20 : being vol. 9 of The History of Birds with coverage of avocets curlews Ibis grebes plovers merganser frigate pelican sea gulls etc . 40 copperplates. PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 198. T. Cadell and W. Davies hardcover
1812004510London: T. Cadell and W. Davies 1812. New Enlarged Edition. Hardcover. Good. Copperplate Engravings . Octavo 467 pages contemporary full calf joints repaired inked name on half-title page no spine labels heel of spine chipped. <br/><br/>Translated by William Smellie editor of The Encyclopedia Britannica. Vols. 15 of 20 : being vol. 5 of The History of Birds with coverage of manikins anters flycatchers larks nightingales wheatear fauvettes. 22 copperplates. PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 198. T. Cadell and W. Davies hardcover
1812004511London: T. Cadell and W. Davies 1812. New Enlarged Edition. Hardcover. Good. Copperplate Engravings . Octavo 493 pages contemporary full calf joints rehinged inked name on half-title page no spine labels <br/><br/>Translated by William Smellie editor of The Encyclopedia Britannica. Vols. 16 of 20 : being vol. 6 of The History of Birds with coverage of bergeronettes figeaters wrens titmice nuthatches parrotscockatoos lories. 15 plates. PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 198. T. Cadell and W. Davies hardcover
1812004504London: T. Cadell and W. Davies 1812. New Enlarged Edition. Hardcover. Good. Copperplate Engravings . Octavo 378 pages contemporary full calf joints cracked inked name on half-title page no spine labels. <br/><br/>Translated by William Smellie editor of The Encyclopedia Britannica. Vol. 5 of 20 : covering a Dissertation on Wild Animals especially wolves. 64 copperplates. PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 198. T. Cadell and W. Davies hardcover
1812308099London: T. Cadell and W. Davies 1812. New edition. Hardcover. All 20 volumes Good in board. Light shelfwear and rubbing on spine of all 20 volumes. Light foxing throught text blocks of all 20 volumes. Small open tears on panel corners of all 20 volumes. Light edgewear on panel side edges of all 20 volumes. Light rubbing on front and rear panels of all 20 volumes. Front hinge starting on volume 2 4. Open tears on top and bottom front and rear gutters of volume 3 6 7 8 13 16 17 and 18. Small open tears on rear panel of volume 4. Chipping on spine crown of volumes 5 8 910 11 17 19 and 20. Rear hinge on volume 20 cracked. T. Cadell and W. Davies hardcover
1812995Y33London: T. Cadell and W. Davies 1812. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 8.5" by 5.5". Not Stated . A copiously illustrated new edition of this encyclopaedic natural history complete here in twenty volumes. A new edition carefully corrected and considerably enlarged by many additional articles notes and plates. With an account of Buffon's life by William Wood. Complete in twenty volumes. Rebound in modern maroon cloth. Renewed endpapers. Bound with the original blanks and half titles. A complete set of Comte de Buffon's Natural History General and Particular.Named the "father of all thought in natural history in the second half of the 18th century" by Ernst Mayr Buffon worked on this series for some fifty years. Thirty-six volumes came out between 1749 and 1789 followed by 8 more after his death thanks to Bernard Germain de Lacépède.It includes all the knowledge available in his time on the "natural sciences" a broad term that includes disciplines which today would be called material science physics chemistry and technology. Buffon notes the morphological similarities between men and apes although he considered apes completely devoid of the ability to think differentiating them sharply from human beings. Buffon's attention to internal anatomy made him an early comparative anatomist.Vols I-II cover Theory of the Earth; Vol. III covers History of Man; Vols. IV-X cover History of Quadrupeds; Vol. XI covers History of Birds; Illustrated with upwards of six hundred copper plates bound as such: Vol. I - Portrait frontispiece and two folding maps.Vol. II - Thirteen plates six of which are folding. Vol. III - One plate.Vol. IV - Folding genealogical table and forty-eight plates. Vol. V - Sixty-four plates.Vol. VI - Sixty-six plates. Two plates numbered 152 both titled 'Marmot of the Cape' though illustrating two different animals and two plates numbered 158 with different animals the second being Crab-eater Raccoon thus following plate no. 158 to face page 155 instead of p. 163. As issued. Vol. VII - Fifty plates two of which are folding. 'Female Opossum' bound facing page 117 instead of p. 115. Lacking Plate No. 211 'Crab-Eater' as found to be the case with other copies. Page numbers for plates CCXV-CCXXIII in binder's directions from 134-172 are misprinted as 234 236 etc. Rights itself when it gets to 304. Plate No. 242 'Hippopotamus' bound facing page 472 instead of 435.Vol. VIII - Forty-nine plates. Plate no. 261 'Tzeiran' bound following no. 262 instead of facing page 170. Vol. IX - Fifty-six plates. Several plates in this volume have binding discrepancies but are all confirmed present. Vol. X - Sixty-nine plates.Vol. XI - Twenty-nine plates.Vol. XII - Twenty-seven plates. Several plates in this volume have binding discrepancies but are all confirmed present. Vol. XIII - Twenty-seven plates.Vol. XIV - Twenty-two plates. Vol. XV - Twenty-two plates.Vol. XVI - Fifteen plates. Vol. XVII - Nineteen plates.Vol. XVIII - Thirty-one plates.Vol. XIX - Forty plates.Vol. XX - Thirty-four plates.Collated complete. Rebound in modern maroon cloth. Externally lovely with only the odd minor mark. Internally firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean with occasional scattered spotting often more populated to the plates and surrounding pages. Occasional offsetting caused by plates. Reference clipping tipped-in to the verso of the half title of Vol I. Small open tear affecting the last four plates of Vol. IV. Very Good Indeed T. Cadell and W. Davies hardcover
1812032746London : T Cadell and W Davies; R C and J Rivington; et al 1812 A very good set of this 20 volume edition with black and white frontispiece 2 folding maps and 681 hand coloured plates. With an account of Buffon's life by William Wood. It is rare to find this set with hand colouring. In contemporary full speckled calf bindings that have been rebacked to provide new spines with gilt-lined raised bands and title and volume labels. The original boards have scuffing and pitting and there is light wear at edges and corners but the bindings are in very good clean condition. Endpapers are marbled and some of the front pastedowns have a scuffed area indicating the removal of bookplates. 2 of the volumes have the armorial bookplate of the Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel Bart who was Prime Minister 1834-5. and 1841-6 and is viewed as the founder of the modern British police force. The contents are in very good condition with occasional light spotting generally at the top margin and offsetting from the plates. The occasional plate and text page is toned. All the volumes have 2 initial and final blanks a half title and title contents listings and directions to the binder. All have the original page marker torn in one volume. In this set Vol VI has 2 plates numbered 152 and 2 numbered 158 with different animals; Vol VII lacks one plate 211 and Vol VIII lacks plate 252 but has 2 numbered 254 different animals. Detailed contents: Vol I: preface by translator and life of Buffon pp lv; text 496pp; 2 folding hand coloured maps. Vol II: text 592pp; 13 plates of which 6 are folding. There is a small hole in text p 443. Vol III: text 567 pp; 1 plate. Vol IV: text 419 pp including folding chart of dogs; 48 plates. Vol V: text 378 pp; 63 plates. Vol VI: text 439pp; 67 plates. Vol VII: 477 pp; 49 plates of which 2 are folding. Vol VIII: 400 pp; 49 plates. Vol IX: 406pp; 56 plates. Vol X: text 288 pp; appendix with half title to p396; index 44 pp; 69 plates. Vol XI: first volume of Birdspreface by translator pp xvi; text 435 pp; notes by translator to p 444; 29 plates 29 is misprinted 39 on directions to binder. Vol XII: text 518 pp; 27 plates - plate numbering not in sequence. p 305 has lost the bottom corner tip. Vol XIII: 496pp; 27 plates. Vol XIV: 464 pp; 22 plates. Vol XV: 468 pp; 22 plates. Vol XVI: 494 pp; 15 plates. Vol XVII: 574 pp; 19 plates. Vol VXIII: 567 pp; 31 plates. Vol XIX: 514 pp; 40 plates. Vol XX: text 1-390; appendix by translator to p 515; index 88 pp; 34 plates. T Cadell and W Davies; R C and J Rivington; et al hardcover
1832C217952London: Joseph Smith 1832. Hardcover Hardcover. Good. Sixteenmo. 144; 144pp. Contemporary half leather over marbled boards with gilt spine titles. Some rubbing and wear to covers inner rear hinge starting some pages with pencil scribbles mainly at start and end otherwise a good copy. Joseph Smith, hardcover
1823291268Paris.: Boiste Fils. 1823. Contemporary full mottled leather gilt rolled borders gilt spine decorations red spine label marbled endpapers. Very good. top of spine beginning to split. 12mo. 14x8.5 cm. French text. weight: 0.4 lb. 10 engraved plates with 60 illustrations of animals. Boiste Fils. hardcover
1801V73223Paris: Le Prieur 1st edition 1801 AN IX. Hardcover. Very Good. Engraved frontispiece by Binet/Bovinet 31 other plates 9 6 11 5 each with several figures in 4 volumes. Four Volumes 12mo marbled roan with some gilt worn to edges hinges and spine leather cracked but held by cords 410pp 360pp 373pp 383pp. Vol I. Cosmographie et quadrupedes; II. Quadrupedes et oiseaux; III. Oiseaux et poissons; IV. Poissons reptiles coquillages crustacees etc. Contents clean and tight. Delightful engraved figures of animals fishes etc by an unknown artist. Scarce in this 1st edition no copy in Bibliotheque Nationale which has 2nd edition only not in Gumuchian who lists several similar Buffon abridgements but all later. Le Prieur 1st edition hardcover
18044989BB1804. 3. Auflage. 5 Bände. Paris Le Prieur 1804. Klein-8°. Mit 1 gest. Frontisp. und 56 gest. Tafeln. Halblederbände aus der Zeit mit je 2 goldgepr. Rückenschildern und einfacher Rückenvergoldung. Die Vorsätze leimschattig. Durchgehend leicht gebräunt und stockfleckig. Einbände berieben und bestossen. Gelenke von Band eins geplatzt und eine Tafel lose. unknown
1865181039Paris.: Langlume. No date circa 1865. Publisher’s gilt blindstamped cloth. Good scattered foxing and dampstains cover faded hinges starting. 12mo. 16.5x10.5 cm. French text. May be missing one or two plates. weight: 0.6 lb. Hand-colored frontis hand-colored vignette on title pageplus 10 additional hand-colored plates. Langlume. hardcover
18191350038Paris: Chez Chevalier 1819. Hardcover. Octavos two volumes; G; Early black glossy spine with faded gilt lettering and gilt graphic designs; Boards have moderate bumping and wear to corners cracking to gloss finish along hinges of both volumes moderate wear to applied gilt graphics and lettering and light shelfwear overall; Textblocks have light shelfwear to bottom edges light foxing to pages near beginning and end of each volume and light age-toning overall; The ex libris of a former owner appears on the front paste-down of each volume; Illustrated; Volumes III and IV only; CONTENTS: Vol. III. Contains 32 fold-out plates including frontispiece / iii 264 pages 2 -- Vol. IV. Contains 31 fold-out plates including frontispiece / 6 263 pages 2;. 1350038. Special Collections - Downstairs. Chez Chevalier hardcover
182715481Société de Paris Paris 1827 1827. priv. Pappband 2 Bände 300 396s 49 Tafeln einige Seiten fleckig und mit Knickspuren sonst in gutem Zustand AZC91 . . HC Société de Paris, Paris 1827, hardcover
181729896Paris: Libraire Rue Hautefeville. Good with no dust jacket. 1817. Hardcover. French Language; B/ W engravings; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; iii 164 2; 263 3 pages; La volie Re de la jeunesse ou Cours complet d'e Tude sur l'histoire naturelle des oiseaux . Suivi d'un traite Sur l'art de les empailler. Tall 12mo contemp. Gilt-paneled speckled calf spines richly gilt morocco spine labels; worn & desiccated. With 64 folding engraved plates of birds as called for in G/VG condition. Occasional minor dampstaining. French language text. Complete. Contents good. French Language text. WorldCat locates only 1 copy. . Libraire Rue Hautefeville hardcover
18878.982Madrid: Felipe González Rojas Ed 1887- 1892. Plena pasta castellana con tejuelos. 23x33. Felipe González Rojas, Ed hardcover
1838V74235Paris: Bazouge-Pigoreau /Tyas London 1838. Hardcover. Very Good-. Hand coloured plates heightened with gum 38 with 154 birds shown in groups from 2-6 per plate by Victor Adam uncoloured frontis portrait of Buffon pretty hand coloured engraved titlepage by Pauquet /Rouget sc. all with tissue guards. Small quarto plum roan spine extra gilt compartments & faux bands with cloth sides tips a bit worn/rebacked with old spine relaid/cloth rubbed. Portrait Frontis hand coloured titlepage printed titlepage Portrait xxiii 1p blank 312pp. Text pages with some foxing more so to first & last pages. Plates mostly clean & white but a few have pale edge foxing. Two tissue guards torn one at p17 lost. The plates are all beautifully hand coloured and heightened with gum. Bazouge-Pigoreau /Tyas London hardcover
1804871F23Paris: Chez Plassan 1804 . Leather. Very Good. 7" by 4.5". Not Stated. An early edition of La Cepede's richly illustrated and very scarce study of cetaceans. In the original French.Illustrated with sixteen engraved plates across the two volumes. Collated complete.Published in the same year as the single volume first edition. Very scarce in all early editions.With each volume retaining the original half title.A richly illustrated study of cetaceans by French naturalist and freemason Count de Lacepede who was chosen by naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc Comte de Buffo to be his successor and continue his series 'Histoire Naturelle'. In full calf bindings with gilt detailing to spines. Rubbing to back strip heads and tails board perimeters and joints. Minor loss of leather to rear board of volume I. Library stamps to title pages with small library markings to versos of front free endpapers. Internally firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Chez Plassan hardcover
1867219823Paris: Furne Jouvet et Cie 1867. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 7 1/4 x 10 3/4. 7 volumes in very good condition. Text in FRENCH. First 5 volumes by the Compte de Buffon: Volume 1: Theorie de la Terre 782 pages 1867. Volume 2: Mineraux 775 pages n.d. Volume 3: Mammifieres 726 pages 1866. Volume 4: Mammifieres 784 pages n.d. Volume 5: Oiseaux 653 pages n.d. Last 2 volumes by the Compte de Lapecede: Volume 1: Cetaces 668 pages 1867. Volume 2: Poissons 646 pages 1867. Pages are clean with light foxing towards the edges. Numerous beautiful chromolithographic plates throughout all 7 volumes with tissue paper opposite each plate. Marbled endpapers. Page edges are darkened and foxed. Quarterbound in dark green cloth and marbled boards with five raised bands on each spine. Lightly worn around the edges bumped and lightly damaged on some of the corners. Some light wear on the spines and boards. Green ribbons attached to each spine. A beautiful set. VG/- - <br/> <br/> Furne, Jouvet et Cie hardcover
