Lacépède´s illustrated natural history

ILLUSTRATED NATURAL HISTORY. (2). LACÉPÈDE, (B. E. G.). Histoire naturelle comprenat les cétacés, les quadrupèdes, les serpents et les poissons. Nouvelle édition... I-II. Paris (Furne, Jouvet et Cie) 1867.

4:o (about 265x170 mm.). 36 handcoloured woodengraved plates (all).
New brown leather, spine in six compartments. Old marbled blank wrappers bound in. 2 volumes.

The handsome plates by Edouard Travies cover the following subjects: volume one, whales five plates, reptiles and batrachians 15 plates, fish four plates, volume two, fish twelve plates.

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