Buffon, Count de. The natural history of birds (vols. 2, 3, 5 and 9 only) (4 v.). Printed for A. Strahan and T. Cadell, and J. Murray, 1793.

Price: US$76.97 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: Front boards detached, as is the rear board of vol. 2. Text blocks largely intact, save for occasional loose blank initial pages; sparingly illustrated with full-page engravings. Owner's signatures. Bookplate of Frederick J. Gibbins. Weight: 1.0 Language: English Full leather bindings, disbound

Seller: Acanthophyllum Books, Holywell, FLINT, United Kingdom

Buffon, Count De. Natural History, General and Particular. Including the History of the Elements, the Planets, the Earth, Mountains, Rivers, Seas, Whirlwinds, Waterspouts, Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Man and Quadrupeds. Nine Volume Set. A. Strahan and T Cadell, London, 1793.

Price: US$506.69 + shipping

Description: 8vo. nine volumes, c.p. plates 1-262, ownership bookplates on front pastedowns, some browning and foxing on endpapers and foredges, interanally light browning and sporadic foxing, good in full marbled calf gilt, worn, some hinges cracked or broken with boards detached on four of the volumes, fair. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Seller: Tombland Bookshop, Norwich, NFLK, United Kingdom