BUFFON (Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de). Œuvres complètes de Buffon, suivies de la classification comparée de Cuvier, Lesson etc, etc. Paris, Pourrat, 1839. 5 volumes large in-8, new edition revised by M. Richard, illustrated with a frontispiece portrait, 4 folding maps, 11 black plates and 261 colored plates. Bound in contemporary purplish half-leather, smooth spine richly decorated. (incomplete of one plate in the fourth volume and one plate in the fifth volume, foxing, some leaves browned, spine oiled). Expert : Monsieur Nicolas Asvisio