Live auction - Lot 1383
[Natural history]
Oeuvres [...], comprenant l'histoire naturelle des quadrupèdes ovipares, des serpents, des poissons et des cétacés [...].
Brussels, Th. Lejeune (printed P.-M. De Vroom), 1833-1834
Hammer price: €
150
€ 200 / 300
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Lot description
5 vol., 8vo (part. uncut, foxing, vol. 2 with marg. tear on pl. 16).
Contemp. half red shagreened sheep, red embossed paper boards, gilt and blind filleted spines (rubbed, spines faded, dulled corners, one cut part. bumped).
New edition of the famous work of the French naturalist (1756-1825), dir. by A.G. Desmarest and enlarg. with "Éléments des sciences naturelles" by A.M. Constant Duméril. Ill. with 1 fold. table and 221 lithogr. pl., mostly enhanced: 20 for cetaceans, 48 (incl. 2 bis pl.) for oviparous quadrupeds and snakes, 120 (incl. 2 bis pl.) for fishes and 33 for the last vol.
Ref. Nissen (ZBI) 2344.
Prov. C. Despret (stamp).