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BUC'HOZ Pierre-Joseph.
BUC'HOZ Pierre-Joseph. First centurie of illuminated and non-illuminated plates representing the most interesting and curious things among animals, plants and minerals, to serve as an intelligence for the general history of the three kingdoms of nature - Second centurie... Paris, Lacombe, Buc'hoz, then Paris, Buc'hoz & Amsterdam, Marc-Michel Rey, [1775]-1778-1779-1781.
20 tomes in 4 vol. in-folio, 30,5 x 46cm, [1 + 1] ff, 20 + 20 pl. for each issue, 7 pl. missing.
contemporary binding in red morocco, triple fillet and gilt corner fleurons on the boards, spines decorated with gilt motifs, gilt edges.
First edition of this fully engraved work: 20 titles calligraphed by a Miss Niquet, printed in black, blue, red or yellow, 200 plates in two states (in black and watercolored, except for 7 missing black plates, that is to say 393 plates), 20 sheets of explanations.
A lawyer and later a physician, demonstrator at the Royal College of Physicians in Nancy, Pierre-Joseph Buc'hoz (1731-1807), from Metz, published works of natural history in the encyclopedic spirit of the time. The large plates of botany, zoology and mineralogy were drawn by Jacques de Favane, Guillaume de Favanne his son, Bélengé and Desmoulins. They are engraved by Ransonnette, Jean Leroy, C.Fessard, M.Fessard, Breant, Vangelisti, Vidal, C.Baquoy, Bradel and Jacques Juillet.
Beautiful copy in red morocco from the Countess Sophie Potocka (1760-1822), famous in all the courts of Europe for her beauty, with her signature on the first title of each volume. Boards and corners slightly rubbed.
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