A remarkable complete copy of its 150 engravings in brilliant colors
from the period enriched with the original drawing of one of the prints.
Paris, 1853-1855.
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte De. Complete Works, with the Linnaean nomenclature and the classification of Cuvier, Reviewed on the quarto edition of the Royal Printing and annotated by M. Flourens. New illustrated edition of 150 plates engraved on steel from the drawings of MM.Traviès and Henry Gobin and colored with the greatest care.
Edited by Garnier Frères, Paris, 1853-1855.
12 volumes in-4. Half red chagrin with corners, top edges gilt. Binding of the period.
277 x 183 mm.
One of the most complete and finest editions published in the 19th century, adorned with a portrait of Buffon engraved by Giroux, and a frontispiece drawn by Staal and engraved by Delaunay showing “The Man and the Woman,” with 4 maps, and 144 steel-engravings out-of-text representing 800 subjects, most of them finely hand-colored based on Traviès‘s drawings.
Nissen ZBI 704; Brunet, I, 1379 (mentions 166 plates while the list of plates bound at the end of the work lists precisely 150).
This edition (with the Linnaean Nomenclature and Cuvier’s Classification) is annotated by M. Flourens and reviewed on the Royal Printing quarto edition.
The work is adorned with numerous colored plates out-of-text under serpentine.
Volume I: (2) ff., 686 pages. Theory of the Earth – General History of Animals. Portrait of Georges Louis Leclerc Comte de Buffon, engraved by Émile Giroux, 2 colored maps out-of-text, 3 plates out-of-text.
Volume II: (2) ff., 667 pages. The Man – Quadrupeds. 1 frontispiece and 22 plates out-of-text.
Volume III: (2) ff., 597 pages. Quadrupeds. 19 plates out-of-text.
Volume IV: (2) ff., 680 pages. Monkeys – Additions to Quadrupeds. 12 plates out-of-text.
Volume V: (2) ff., 597 pages. Birds. 23 plates out-of-text.
Volume VI: (2) ff., 586 pages. Birds. 20 colored plates.
Volume VII: (2) ff., 624 pages. Birds. 21 plates out-of-text.
Volume VIII: (2) ff., 631 pages. Birds. 20 plates out-of-text.
Volume IX: (2) ff., 670 pages. Introduction to Minerals – Epochs of Nature. 2 maps and 4 plates out-of-text.
Volume X: (2) ff., 568 pages, (1) f. for table. Minerals.
Volume XI: (2) ff., 609 pages. Minerals.
Volume XII: (2) ff., 824 pages, (3) ff.. Experiments on Plants, Moral Arithmetic and Analytical and Reasoned Tables of the Materials contained in the Entire Work.
Superb copy, one of the rare ones complete with its 150 prints in vivid colors of the time, enriched with an original drawing.
