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BUFFON, Georges Louis Marie Leclerc, Comte de & William SMELLIE (translator). Natural History, General and Particular and The Natural History of Birds. London: for A. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1791 and 1793. Together 18 volumes, 8° (210 x 126mm). Portrait frontispiece in vol. one, 569 engraved plates including 2 folding maps (short tear to one leaf in vol. X, occasional spotting, waterstaining and offsetting, some plates with margins shaved and bound out of sequence). Contemporary tree calf, spines gilt with calf labels (a little worn, some labels missing). Provenance: Iain Ramsay of Kildalton (bookplates). Nissen ZBI 718-9. (18)
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