Le Buffon de la Jeunesse: Zoologie – Botanique – Minéralogie

by P. Blanchard, Chenu, Jean-Charles

$250 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books

Paris: Morizot, 1859. Large octavo 27cm . Brown pebble-grained cloth backed in leather, gilt stamping to spine, all edges gilt; white moiré endpapers; viii,592pp; 89 hand-colored plates. Straight and sound, externally rubbed, amateur repair to headcap, front flyleaf partly detached with split to front hinge, foxed: just Very Good. Natural history compendium for youth, with over 400 hand-colored

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