[Buffon/ Lacépède] Eight volumes: (1-6) Oeuvres complètes de Buffon,

avec des extraits de Daubenton et la classification de Cuvier. Paris, Furne et Cie., 1842-1844 (volume 1-5)/ Bureau des publications Illustrées, 1841 (volume 6), with stipple-engraved portrait of the author, 5 steel-engraved maps with coloured outlines, one other plate and 115 handcoloured and partly gum-heightened, steel-engraved plates, contemporary uniform cloth, gilt back with two morocco letterpieces, 4to.

1-2. Matières générales, Théorie de la terre en (in volume 2) Minéraux; 3-4. Mammifères; 5-6. Oiseaux. With uniformly bound: (7-8) Histoire naturelle de Lacépède comprenant les citacés, les quadrupèdes ovipares, les serpents et les poissons. Avec des notes et la nouvelle classification de M. A.-G. Desmarest. Paris, Furne et Cie., 1844, 2 volumes, with 36 handcoloured and partly gum-heightened, steel-engraved plates. Ad 1-8: Lovely set, occasional light foxing as usual. Volume 6 of the Buffon with minor tear in lower joint, boards of volume 1 discoloured. Volume 1 of the Lacépède upper joint with tear at top. (total 8 volumes)