[BUFFON]. [Abbé Le Large de LIGNAC]. Lettres à un Amériquain - Lot 7

[BUFFON]. [Abbé Le Large de LIGNAC]. Lettres à un Amériquain sur l'histoire naturelle, générale et particulière de Buffon. Hambourg, 1751. 8 parts in 2 volumes in-12, blond calf, smooth spines decorated in the grotesque style (Binding of the period). Cioranescu, II-38994 /// I. (1f.)-127-50-57-66-(1f.) / II. (1f.)-66-(1f.)-31-96-69. A complete collection of nine letters from Abbé de Lignac in which he violently attacked Buffon's theses on the movement of the planets, the construction of the earth's surface, the existence of fossil shells, animal construction, the natural history of man... A superb copy in contemporary blond calf, with another volume on Buffon: Marie-Jean HÉRAULT de SÉCHELLES. Voyage à Montbar, contenant Des détails très-interessans sur le caractère, la personne et les écrits de Buffon. Paris, Solvet, An IX (1801). In-8, speckled basane, roulette and fillet, smooth spine decorated (contemporary binding). Cioranescu, II-33859 /// XII-136-(1f.). New edition.