3 loose plates of Bats titled 'Chauve Souris Etrangeres' 'La Grande Serontine de la Guyanne' & 'La Grande Chauve - Souris fer - de - Lance de la Guyanne' paperback
Paris. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1803. Hardcover. 28 Volumes Published in Paris from 1803 to 1805. Original leather boards with newer cloth spines. Contemporary gold gilt design on front and rear covers. Light wear to corners. Marbled endpapers with an older bookplate in each volume. All edges also marbled. French Text. 255 Beautiful Hand-Colored Plates in exceptionally clean fine condition with mild toning at absolute extreme edge. No foxing or other blemishes to hand-colored plates. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . hardcover
Hamburg & Leipzig.: Georg Christian Grund & Adam Heinrich Holle. 1750. Orig.Halbleder. Mit 8 Tafeln 2 Faltkarten Kupferstichen im Text & Vignetten. Deckel lose Ecken und Kanten berieben. Vorsatz gebr�unt. R�cken aufgeplatzt. Starke Gebrauchssuren. xxvii318 SeitenRegister 288 SeitenRegister. Georg Christian Grund & Adam Heinrich Holle. unknown
Paris: De L'Imprimerie Royale 1770. Hardcover. Good. Eight volumes of birds; incomplete but a nice run. Quartos. Contemporary leather bindings worn. A profusion of wonderful plates. Uncollated and sold as is. <br/><br/> De L'Imprimerie Royale hardcover
Paris: De L'Imprimerie Royale 1758. Hardcover. Good. Five odd volumes of quadrupeds various dates. Quartos. Contemporary leather bindings worn. A profusion of wonderful plates. Uncollated and sold as is. <br/><br/> De L'Imprimerie Royale hardcover
EDINBURGH: Sylvester Doig at the Royal Exchange A rare english translation of this work first published in France in 1778. There is no date on the title page but there is an inscription dated 1793. With 2 title pages an advertisement contents listing and instructions to the binder and text with 24 copper engraved plates. There is a section on each bird and a plate usually illustrating male and female forms bound with it. Bound in full leather with a gilt crest on the front board. The binding requires repair with wear at joints corners and edges - the front board is becoming detached. There is a small signature on the front paste-down endpaper which is not very clear - but may be a Mr Hay. Whoever this was he has added notes in ink to the preliminaries and sometimes to the backs of plates. These contain detailed descriptions of the favourite foods of many of the birds - for example skylarks a penchant for spiders - 'good for them particularly if they are not well'. The two title pages are detached but the remainder of the book is sound and complete. There is a little browning and spotting - but apart from the ink annotations - the book is very clean. A rare and interesting work. Sylvester Doig at the Royal Exchange hardcover
Paris: Garnier Freres 1855 16 volumes complete with the scarce Cuvier supplement. Collated with 199 of the 200 listed plates present. Plate number 128 le heron commun. in Vol. VIII is lacking. Plate number 12 Le taureau. in Vol. II is defective showing a one inch circular spot where the color is worn from the lower of two images. There are a couple plates with very light foxing not affecting images though overall the plates remains very bright and clean. Quarter leather binding with raised spine bands and gilt stamped lettering and decoration. Marbled paper over boards. General light rubbing on edges of leather. Rubbing and mostly light wear on edges of paper over boards. A few tender hinges and binding of last volume has been re-glued to text block. First grouping of leaves in this same volume are loosen though intact and inplace. All text blocks remains tight and contents are very clean with only a few penciled book sellers markings and no other book plates marks etc. . Half Leather - Hardbound. Good/No Jacket. 4to. Garnier Freres hardcover
A Lausanne: Andr� Gonin 1954 Folio. iv 140 1 iiipp. On Rives wove paper. Sheets loose as issued. Copy number XX of an edition limited to 250 copies signed by Erni and Gonin on the justification page. A Lausanne: Andr� Gonin, 1954 unknown
Paris: Th�odore Lef�vre n.d.ca. 1875. iv 384 pp. Large 8vo 17 x 25 cm. Bound in half green morocco spine with 4 raised bands gilt decorated with compartments & rullers buckram boards edges gilt the original publisger's binding partly slightly rubbed. Title printed in red and black. With about 350 text illustrations and 16 plates all wood-engravings. Apart from some slight scattered foxing a very good copy of a very charmingly illustrated Buffon for children. Th�odore Lef�vre, hardcover
Paris: Imprimerie Royale 1770 18 Vols. 18 vol. in-12 XXXVI-351; 351; 417; 405; 456; XII-246-clxxvii; XII-430; XV-418-xlvi; XII-472; XIII-316-xlvi; XX-495; XII-482; XIX-446; XII-360-lxxii; XVI-439; VIII-326-clii; VIII-484; IV-135-xlvi-486 PP. Giving 247 full page engraved prints. some plates misbound no gaps in the plate numbering. Original fine full mottled calf. Gilded spines with raised bands title labels and tomaison. Some imperfections to spine ends a title label missing and bindings of first vols. slightly differing from the remaining set. Plates of the vols. I-III finely coloured by a contemporary hand. Each vol. has an index Vol. XVIII carries a very extensive general index. Table Alphab�tique & Table De Mati�res A fine set in well kept nearly uniform full calf bindings. See: Ebert 3126 - Graesse I 566 - Brunet I 1377 - Sander 259 - Nissen ZBI 682 - Nissen IVB 160. different collation/number of plates Imprimerie Royale hardcover
Yilin Press 2013-03-01. paperback. New. Ship out in 2 business day And Fast shipping Free Tracking number will be provided after the shipment.Paperback. Pub Date :2013-03-01 Pages: 233 Language: Chinese Publisher: Yilin Press Basic information Title : Translation Linren Wen Featured : Natural History Price: 24.00 yuan Author : Buffon Buffon GLL Publisher: Yilin Press Publication Date: March 1. 2013 ISBN: 9787544736664 words: pages : 233 Edition : 1st Edition Binding: Paperback Folio: 16 weight : 340 g editor's Choice Translation Linren Wen Featured : Natural History editors: brilliant exposition earth . humans . animals and other. Satisfaction guaranteedor money back. Yilin Press paperback
Bookseller reference : BU004886 ISBN : 7544736660 9787544736664
Paternoster-Row London : H D Symonds 1807 A complete set of the Barr edition of Buffon's Natural History in 10 volumes with 87 plates 81 of which are hand coloured. Buffon's Histoire Naturelle begun in 1749 was read extensively and had a huge influence on later thinking. This edition translated by James Smith Barr is now rare - although at the time it went through a number of printings. It is illustrated with a number of fine engravings produced for Barr and it is now rare to find these hand coloured rather than plain. Each plate has 2 engravings each showing an animal in its 'natural' surroundings including domestic dog breeds. In full leather binding with fairly recent spines with title labels and gilt compartments and contemporary boards in tree calf. The bindings are in good condition with some wear to board edges and sometimes a little scuffing to the boards. The original endpapers have been retained and repaired. Small ink signature of John Verinder to preliminary page in each volume. The contents are in good condition with slight offsetting/browning around the plates. Some of these are tissue-guarded but these are small guards and not fixed; some of them are crumpled and grubby. There is occasional browning to text pages and some page corners have been turned over just at the edge. Vol I 1797 333 pages frontispiece portrait of Buffon. Vol II 1797 small brown mark affecting pages 43-47 348 pp. Vol III 1807 4 tinted plates as called for occasional browning where bus tickets used as page markers 348 pp. Vol IV 1807 1 tinted plate as called for 352 pp. Vol V 1807 16 hand coloured plates although listing calls for 13 347 pp. Vol VI 1807 19 hand coloured plates as called for 346 pp. Vol VII 1807 13 hand coloured plates as called for title page repaired 338 pp. Vol VIII 1807 18 hand coloured plates as called for 343 pp. Vol IX 1807 15 hand coloured plates as called for repair to title page reverse of contents page and final leaf. Vol X 1807 browning to edges of pages 359-366 366 pages. A good set. H D Symonds hardcover
London: Printed For The Proprietor And Sold By H.D.Symonds 1797. cfFreeman 580 3 1792 Barr edition with 81 coloured plates. 10 Volumes. 12mo. 73 engraved plates containing 221 figures. there is no plate containing figures 60-61 but these are not referenced in the text & may have just been omitted in numbering. contemporary diced russia gilt backs joints cracked 4 covers detached some chipping to spines corners worn internally very good London: Printed For The Proprietor, And Sold By H.D.Symonds, 1797 unknown
Alnwick: Printed By And For W.Davison 1814. Freeman 580 9. 4 Volumes. 12mo. pp. viii 9-336; ; iv 9-324; iv 9-332; iv 9-308. numerous wood-engraved text illus. contemporary polished calf rubbed spines faded headpiece of Vol. III chipped Alnwick: Printed By And For W.Davison, 1814 unknown
London: H.D.Symonds 1808. Five volumes only of six missing volume V. Ex Technical Institute Library with some labels and stamps. Some boards detached. Tape to spine of volume I Marbled endpapers and edges. Binding set. . Reprint. Leather Binding. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo. H.D.Symonds Hardcover
London: Thomas Kelly 1862. Corrected and enlarged edition Volume one only but has all 56 hand-coloured plates inc. tiger's head vignette on half-title and the often missing "White Negroes". This copy ihas ben professionally rebound in green calf with brown spine. Matching green spine panels with gilt. Marbled endpapers. Lower third of frontis portrait of the Count of Buffon is missing. Text stops mid-sentence at pp680 so there are possibly two pages missing at the rear. But plates are present and mostly in good condition. Foxing throughout. Now a splendid looking copy with some stunning illustrations. Heavy copy might require extra postage. Ref:114804. New Enlarged Edition. Full Leather. VG/N/a. 21x27.5cm. Thomas Kelly Hardcover
Illustrated with above 300 Copper-plates and occasional notes and observations. Translated into English by William Smellie. Volume VI only. A litle wear to corners. MDCCLXXXV. Second Edition. Leather. Good. Hardcover
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