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Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon; William Smellie [Trans]Biblio.com

8 Vols Natural History General and Particular

1780réf. 1024H28Edinburgh: William Creech 1780 . Leather. Good. 8.5 by 5. None Stated. The extensively illustrated eight-volume translation of Buffon"s influential Enlightenment survey of the natural world. In contemporary uniform full calf bindings. Volume II is supplied from another set bound in quarter calf with paper-covered boards and lacks its front board. The first edition of Smellie"s translation. Extensively illustrated with over two-hundred and fifty engraved copper plates depicting domestic and exotic animals comparative anatomy and natural phenomena including two folding maps to volume I. Histoire naturelle générale et particulière was originally published in French between 1749 and 1789 ultimately extending to thirty-six quarto volumes issued during Buffon"s lifetime with additional posthumous volumes continuing the series. Buffon"s ambitious survey of the natural world encompassing the formation and history of the Earth geography geology animal physiology the natural history of humanity and an extensive account of quadrupeds. Georges-Louis Leclerc Comte de Buffon 1707-1788 was a French naturalist mathematician and cosmologist. William Smellie 1740-1795 was a Scottish printer naturalist and antiquary best known as the principal compiler and editor of the first edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. One of the most ambitious and influential attempts to survey the natural world produced during the Enlightenment. Volumes I and IIIVIII in contemporary uniform full calf bindings with light rubbing to the boards spines and extremities. Volume II is supplied from another set and is considerably more worn bound in quarter calf with paper-covered boards; the front board is lacking with heavy rubbing and substantial loss to the remaining binding. With ownership inscriptions to the heads of the title pages and rectos of the initial blanks throughout. Further contemporary ink inscriptions dated 1826 to the front free endpapers of Volumes IV and V. Armorial bookplate of Rowland Hunt to the front pastedown of Volume I. Slight damp staining to the upper portion of the rear pastedown of Volume VIII. Internally generally firmly bound. Volume II lacks all preliminary matter and text through page 13 as well as pages 394-413 with evidence of their forcible removal at the gutter. The first surviving leaf page 13 is worn and bears an ink ownership inscription and institutional stamp. Pages generally bright and clean if lightly age toned with occasional light spotting marks and marginal wear. Slight tidemarks to the margins of the final plates in Volume III. Dampstaining to the upper margins of plates CCXCIII-CCXCIV in Volume VIII. Plates to volume II are largely defective with frequent closed tearing and loss. Good William Creech hardcover

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