Buffon

1825 · 81174 — Paris: A. Eymery 1825. Fine. A. Eymery Paris 1825 -1828 13.50 x 21 cm longueur totale de la série 103 cm 26 volumes reliés Complete edition in 25 volumes illustrated with 245 plates including the author's portrait by Deveria as frontispiece 216 hand-colored plates some with gold highlights including 91 for mammals 126 for birds 13 in black and 4 folding geographical maps. Rare copy complete with the supplementary volume published in 1828 with 12 colored plates. Full glazed calf binding. Spine with raised bands decorated with 3 cold-stamped Restoration tools inlaid with gold dots roulettes at head and tail on the bands and forming compartments. 2 title-labels in blonde calf. Large cold-stamped medallion on covers and cold-stamped frame border. Spine showing traces of discoloration small lacks or minute fragment losses to 8 headcaps volumes 9 11 23 1 5 24. with volume 26 having a tear to the joint at the upper headcap same at tail. Paper relatively fresh with some scattered foxing. Most plates are in perfect fresh condition some browned with some foxing. In volumes 3 4 5 and 10 some leaves browned and browning. One tear in vol.11 p. 63 and browned leaves. Spine with traces of discoloration. Some scattered foxing. Bookplate of Comte Chevreau d'Enraigues. Most of the colored plates are the work of Gabriel Prêtre painter of the natural history museum and Empress Joséphine's menagerie. These complete works are expanded with a general view of the progress of several branches of natural sciences arranged by Comte de Lacépède augmented with a volume containing a summary of nature's marvels discovered from Buffon to our day. A. Eymery hardcover