(BUFFON, LECLERC) SONNINI, CHARLES SIGISBERT. Histoire naturelle, generale et particuliere des poissons...Paris, 1803-4. 13 v. 1st ed.
Histoire naturelle, generale et particuliere des poissons; ouvrage faisant suite a l'Histoire naturelle, generale et particuliere, composee par LeClerc De Buffon... Paris: De L'Imprimerie De F. Dufart, [1803-1804]13 vols. 8vo, original 3/4 calf over pink paper boards, gilt-lettered spines, pages uncut. First edition, series from the work, Histoire naturelle generale et particuliere, (1799-1808), complete in 127 volumes. With engraved portrait frontispiece in vol. 1 and 79 copper-plate engravings of fish eggs, fish, and fossil fish after Buffon throughout (80 total). Rubbing to boards; bookseller's inventory sticker to foot of spine, vol. 1; scattered brownspotting.
