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LACEPEDE, Histoire naturelle des quadrupèdes ovipares et des serpens, 1788-89
LACEPEDE, Etienne de.
Histoire naturelle des quadrupèdes ovipares et des serpens.
Paris, Hotel de Thou, 1788-1789.
Two volumes 4to (243x200 mm), 17-(1)- 651 pages and 41 plates and 1 folding table (Booklet A and B inverted, second table in latine is missing) / 8-19-(1)-144-527 pages and 22 plates. binding : Contemporary full calf, spine in six compartments. Headcaps worn. Waterstains on first volume's margins leading to a fragilized paper.
First edition.
Buffon at the end of his life had commissioned Count Lacépède to continue his immense Natural History by completing it with oviparous quadrupeds and snakes, the second part of which was published after Buffon's death.
Price : 800 €
European VAT number: FR87515091171
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