NATURAL HISTORY GENERAL AND PARTICULAR Volume XIII The History of Man and Quadrupeds (Birds 3)
by BUFFON Georges-Louis Leclerc Count de, SMELLIE William, WOOD William
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T. Cadell and Davies et al, 1812. New edn. 8vo (8½ x 5½ ins). Contemporary half calf on marbled paper-laid boards, marbled edges and endpapers (chipped at headcap and rather rubbed). Pp. vii + 496, illus with 27 engraved plates (some light offsetting opposite plates; previous owner's armorial bookplate on front paste-down and university library stamps on front prelims).
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- Title
- NATURAL HISTORY GENERAL AND PARTICULAR Volume XIII The History of Man and Quadrupeds (Birds 3)
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- BUFFON Georges-Louis Leclerc Count de, SMELLIE William, WOOD William
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- Used
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- T. Cadell and Davies et al, 1812
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- Natural History;
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