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Oeuvres Completes De Buffon Avec Supplemens Augmentees De La Classification De G. Cuvier. Eight Volume Set.
by Buffon
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Carmarthenshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Paris: P. Dumenil, 1835. Reprint . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. eight volume set,original green quarter leather hardcover with spine lettered and ruled in gilt,marbled boards,130 fine clean uncoloured plates,minor rubbing to extremities otherwise a very good set with minor foxing to text pages only.
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- Bookseller
- Carmarthenshire Rare Books.
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 107504
- Title
- Oeuvres Completes De Buffon Avec Supplemens Augmentees De La Classification De G. Cuvier. Eight Volume Set.
- Author
- Buffon
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- P. Dumenil
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1835
- Keywords
- Ornithology. Plate Books. Leather Bindings.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Illustrated; Natural History;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Carmarthenshire Rare Books.
All books sold as complete unless stated otherwise. Books may be returned within two weeks if not as described. We post three times a week using Royal Mail. Tracking is not available unless requested and will be at considerable extra cost.
About the Seller
Carmarthenshire Rare Books.
Biblio member since 2003
Carmarthenshire
About Carmarthenshire Rare Books.
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Glossary
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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