BUFFON'S NATURAL HISTORY OF THE GLOBE, AND OF MAN: BEASTS, BIRDS, FISHES, REPTILES AND INSECTS

by Fore-Edge Paintings, Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffon, Comte De

$950 · Offered by Phillip J. Pirages

London: Thomas Tegg; J. Cumming, Dublin; and R. Griffin and Co., Glasgow, 1831 . 170 x 100 mm. 6 3/4 x 4 . Four volumes. Edited by John Wright. Contemporary black morocco, covers with an elaborate frame in gilt and blind, raised bands, spine compartments gilt with foliate volutes, turn-ins with a narrow gilt roll, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt rear hinge of fourth volume very neatly repaired . The

• Binding: Leather

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