Le Buffon de la Jeunesse: Zoologie – Botanique – Minéralogie
Paris: Morizot, 1859. Large octavo (27cm). Brown pebble-grained cloth backed in leather, gilt stamping to spine, all edges gilt; white moiré endpapers; viii,592pp; 89 hand-colored plates. Straight and sound, externally rubbed, amateur repair to headcap, front flyleaf partly detached with split to front hinge, foxed: just Very Good.
Natural history compendium for youth, with over 400 hand-colored illustrations.
Price: $250.00