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Complete new edition of Buffon's works, published in Paris by Eymery between 1825 and 1828 according to the arrangement established by the Comte de Lacépède and completed by the supplementary volume issued in 1828. A handsome complete set in 26 bound volumes (13.5 × 21 cm; total shelf length: 103 cm), illustrated with 245 plates: Buffon's portrait engraved by Devéria as the frontispiece, 216 hand-coloured plates - some heightened with gold - including 91 devoted to mammals and 126 to birds, 13 plates in black, and 4 folding maps. Most of the coloured plates were executed by Jean-Gabriel Prêtre, the animal painter successively attached to Empress Joséphine's menagerie...

Extremely important edition, comprising a large number of works appearing here in their first edition. The complete set of these 27 volumes is rare (Clouzot). The titles present in first edition are: Mattea, Lettres d’un Voyageur, La Dernière Aldini, Les Maîtres mosaïstes, L’Uscoque, Spiridion, Les Sept Cordes de la lyre, Gabriel,

New illustrated edition with 232 figures, principally by Borel. Volume XIV contains an additional suite by Moreau, a suite by Marillier and another anonymous suite. Copy on vellum paper, the figures on heavy vellum. At the end of the publisher's notice, a leaf with the price of works: the 20 volumes in-18, fine paper, in wrappers with 18 engravings...30Fr. The same with 212 engravings, in wrappers...60Fr. The same, 17 volumes, deluxe vellum paper, figures from first proofs...120Fr. The volumes may be purchased separately by works. While at Princeton University and the Royal Library of Denmark one finds only the edition in 20 volumes with 18 engravings, this copy proves more desirable in...

First collected edition, partly original, by far the most important and most sought-after (cf. Clouzot), with Chateaubriand having revised and reworked a large part of his writings.
This set also contains in first edition several texts including Les Natchez, Le Dernier Abencérage, Le Voyage en Amérique, and Moïse (placed at the end of vol. XXII and often lacking).

Each volume illustrated with a frontispiece...

Complete works of Goethe comprising his poetry, theater, novels, critical essays and correspondence. Gothic printing in 2 columns. 5 superb steel engravings on thick paper under yellow tissue guards in volume 2 by Kaulbach and Felner in Gothic or classical style and engraved by English engravers, 2 engravings in volume 3. One of the first complete works of the author who died in 1833. The same publisher had issued this edition in 55 thin volumes in 1833, here delivering a more compact and manageable version.
German contemporary full green shagreen binding. Smooth spine decorated with rococo tools connected by long fillets. Gilt title and volume number. Double fillet frame on boards...

Rare 19th-century edition of the complete works of Turgenev on high-quality paper, in contrast to earlier editions, notably that of А.Ф. Маркс. Labeled as the "third edition." Features an engraved portrait of the author as a frontispiece and a facsimile of his handwriting.

Publisher's bindings in full red cloth, smooth spines adorned with black and gold typographic motifs, and boards framed with black fillets and floral patterns. The center of the boards features a vignette containing the author's monogram surrounded by an inlaid green vegetal motif. Edges are speckled.

Some volumes are slightly warped. Light water stains on the boards of volumes 1, 3, 9, and 10. A few...