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1792
BUFFON on APES, LONGTAILED MONKEYS, and BABOONS
28 hand colored plates, famous Pauli-edition!
Georges
Louis LeClerc,
Comte de
Buffon
Naturgeschichte der vierfüssigen Thiere.
19. Band.
Berlin,
Joachim Pauli 1792
vol. 19, 7,5 x 5 inches, hand colored, engraved title-frontispiece
and
28 hand colored plates, one uncolored plate. Colors bright and strong!
Full-leather binding, corners and edges somewhat bumped.
Among others, the plates show images of mostly apes, long-tailed monkeys, and baboons.
Original – not a reproduction!
The Berlin-Pauli edition is
one of the most sought after of all editions of Buffons Natural History due to
the high quality of the engravings and the superb coloring.