Georges-Louis Leclerc BUFFON, Jacques de SÈVE
Histoire naturelle des oiseaux [Natural History of Birds]
Imprimerie royale|Paris 1770-1783|20 x 26.4 cm|relié
First edition from the Imprimerie Royale, complete in nine quarto volumes with all 262 black-and-white engraved plates.
Contemporary full mottled calf, spines with raised bands decorated with guilloche tooling and gilt ornaments in the compartments, red morocco lettering-pieces and numbering-pieces, triple gilt fillet border on boards, double gilt fillet on board edges, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, marbled edges. Minor variations in the tooling on volume 3.
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€4,500