Live auction - Lot 1124
[Natural history]
Dictionnaire classique des sciences naturelles [...].
Brussels, Méline Cans & Cie, 1853
Hammer price: €
600
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Lot description
10 vol., 8vo; 202 pl. (browned, spotting throughout but minimal on pl.).
Contemp. half shagreen, cloth on covers, gilt-titled orn. spines (corners sl. bumped).
Later ed. (1st 1837-1845) of this important dictionary of zoology, botany and mineralogy by the Belgian naturalist A. Drapiez (1778-1856). Ill. with 202 plates, of which 199 hand-coloured and some partly heightened with Arabic gum. Vignettes fig. animals (repeated) on titles.
Ref. Cp. Nissen (ZBI) 4613a (1st ed.). - Not in Pritzel.