
M. de Buffon - intendant du Jardin du Roi, de l'académie française et celle des sciences...etc.
In Paris, royal printing house - 1780.
1 volume in-12 (17 * 10 cm) - volume 11 only.
Period shine, ornate flat back, marbled edges. Worn caps, two split hinges. Traces of foxing.
495pp - 15 boards.
Contained in this volume: among others,
The Bird-Fly, The Hummingbird, The Parrots, etc ...
You can find the biography and work of the Count of Buffon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges-Louis_Leclerc,_Comte_de_Buffon