Buffon (Georges-Louis Le Clerc, Comte de)

Buffon's Natural History Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &c..., 10 vol.., 80 plates including portrait frontispiece, hand coloured, offsetting throughout, vol. 3 title with significant loss, later ownership inscription in ink to each title, for the Proprietor, 1797-1807; Natural History of Birds, Fish, Insects, and Reptiles..., 6 vol., 1808; contemporary marbled calf, spines gilt with morocco labels, worn, cracking to spines, 12mo (16) [sold not subject to return]