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BUFFON, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de.
Oeuvres Choisies de Buffon
contenant les discours Académiques des extraits de la théorie de la terre les époques de la nature la génésie des minéraux l'histoire naturelle de l'homme et les animaux.
A handsome copy.
2 volumes, octavo (175 × 105mm). Contemporary red calf, double green morocco labels, elaborate tooling to spines in compartments, raised bands, roll to boards, marbled endpapers, and edges. Engraved frontispiece of the author to volume 1. School bookplate to front pastedown and school library plate to front free endpaper of both volumes, some minor foxing to a few leaves, spine and boards a little rubbed, overall in excellent condition.
