[SCIENCES]. BUFFON - Lot 125

[SCIENCES]. BUFFON Natural history, reduced to its most instructive and interesting content. By P. Bernard. Paris, Hacquart, 1800 - An VIII. 10 volumes in-8 (223 x 142 mm) of XXX, 384 pp. with 5 engraved plates for vol. I; VIII, 512 pp. for vol. II; VI, 382 pp. pl.4-6 for vol. III; CVI, 408 pp. pl.7-25, 25bis, 26 for vol. IV; VIII, 391 pp. pl. 27-38 for vol. V; VI, 376pp. pl. 39-48 for vol. VI; VIII, 420pp. pl. 49-58 for vol. VII; XII, 491 pp. pl. 59-66 for vol. VIII; X, 500 pp. pl. 67-82 for vol. IX; VI, 436 pp. pl. 83-86. Mottled calf, smooth spine, speckled edges (contemporary binding). Nissen, ZBI, 683 (with erroneous collation of plates). Nissen inadvertently adds the plates, but there are indeed 6 plates for Histoire de la Terre / Histoire de l'homme), plates 7-48 for quadrupeds, then plates 49-86 for the history of birds. Bindings rubbed and missing. [Attached:] - BOUASSE. Diapasson Spiral Clock. Paris, Delagrave, 1920. 2 vols. - La Nature. 6 vols. between 1897 and 1902. - And around 25 volumes on mathematics (algebra, geometry, etc.). Lot sold as is.