LOT 27 Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière... nouvelle édition, 38 vol., Amsterdam, J. Schneider [-Dordrecht, A. Blussé], 1766-1799, sold as a periodical BUFFON (GEORGE LOUIS LECLERC, COMTE DE)
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Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière... nouvelle édition, 38 vol., titles with engraved vignette or woodcut device, 1122 engraved plates (some folding), folding engraved table in volume 5, 2 folding maps in Supplement volume 6, a few later or modern illustrations tipped-in, later roan-backed marbled boards [Nissen ZBI 678], 4to (289 x 232mm.), Amsterdam, J. Schneider [-Dordrecht, A. Blussé], 1766-1799, sold as a periodical
|Comprises: Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière, 15 vol., 597 plates (of 601?); Histoire naturelle des oiseaux, 9 vol., 263 plates; Histoire naturelle des minéraux, 5 vol., lacking the 8 maps; Histoire naturelle des quadrupèdes ovipares et des serpents, par Lacépède, 2 vol., 63 plates; Supplément vol. 2-7 (of 7), 199 plates, 2 folding maps; and a single volume entitled 'Histoire naturelle générale et particulière... Tome second', containing 'Introduction a l'histoire des minéraux', 16 folding plates, with the word 'second' on the title crossed through and replaced with 'I', possibly indicating that it was issued in place of the missing Supplement volume 1.The collation is uncertain, as is Nissen's plate count on occasion. Volume 1 here lacks the portrait and 4 plates called for in a plate list in one of the later volumes (some later versions and modern maps are bound in), but these are not mentioned by Nissen. Volume 3 seems to lack the final plate (possibly published), and volume 15 has 13 plates as called for in the plate list, whereas Nissen mentions 16.Provenance: "Decret du XXIX Decemebre MDCCCX. (Bouches de la Meuse)", circular stamp on title-page of first volume.
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