René Richard Castel (ed.), Georges-Louis Leclerc (au.), Histoire naturelle de Buffon, classée par ordres, genres et espèces, d'après le systême de Linné, avec les caractères génériques et la nomenclacture Linnéenne, par René- Richard Castel, auteur du poëme des Plantes. Paris: L’Imprimerie de Crapelet, Chez Deterville, rue du Battoir, n. 16, An VII [1799]. Interior Condition: Good. Paris, printed by the Imprimerie Crapelet, 1799 (uses French Republican calendar), 32mo, pp. iii, 1-317, i; π3, 1 (6+1), 2-3 (6), 4 (6 +1), 5 -7 (6), 8 (6+2), 9 (6), 10 (6+2), 11 (6+1), 12-13 (6), 14-15 (6+1), 16 (6), 17 -18 (6+1), 19 (6+1), 20 (6+1), 21- 22 (6), 23 (6+1), 24 (6), 25- 26 (6+1), 27 (3), one worm hole extending from prelims to p. 61, some minor foxing throughout, but many clean pages; 15 full-page, double paned illustrations.; no reader marks. Binding Condition: Good. Full leather bound, gold tooling, with decorative gold stamping on spine, title on red leather, series number on green leather, age evident with some separation between front cover board and spine, still very strongly attached, corners have wear, and leather has received some damage on back cover.