Buffon, G.L. de — Oeuvres complètes de Buffon avec leurs suppléments, augmentées de la classification de G. Cuvier. Tome VII-VIII. Oiseaux I-II.

1835 421, [5], 455 p., 51, 64 engraved plates, original printed paper-covered boards (not uniform and extremities worn). Previous ownerâÇÖs name on verso front cover. As the systematic position changed the plates are not bound in the former numerical order. These two volumes include and depict: woodpeckers, owls, phaesants and quails, birds of paradise, pigeons (and the dodo), Colibris, Parrots, and many songbirds.