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Baron Georges Léopold Chrétian Frédéric Dagobert Cuvier (1769-1832)
Le Règne animal. Paris: Paul Renouard for Fortin, Masson et Cie., [1836-1849]. 262 fascicules in 20 volumes, 4° (268 x 177mm). Engraved additional titles with portrait vignettes. 993 (of 996) plates by Giraud, Schmelz, Visto and others after Deshayes, Milne Edwards, Oudart, E. Traviès, Werner, comprising: 869 hand-coloured and colour-printed engraved plates, some heightened with gum arabic or silver, including 2 double-page; 2 chromolithographic plates; 122 engraved plates, including 8 double-page, 3 folding, and 20 mounted. (Variable, light browning, lacking plates 8 and 19 and accompanying text in volume VI, and plate 19 and accompanying text in volume XX.) Contemporary French red half roan gilt, the spines gilt in compartments, lettered in two, the others panelled (extremities a little rubbed and scuffed, spines of volumes VI and VII slightly stained), top edges gilt, purple silk markers. Provenance: Feret & Fils, Bordeaux (bookseller's ticket on the lower pastedown of volume XI).
THIRD EDITION. 'THE CELEBRATED ''DISCIPLES'' EDITION' (Wood). Cuvier's Le Regne animal was first published in four volumes in 1817, and was followed by a five-volume edition in 1829. The present, third edition was edited by a distinguished 'réunion de disciples de Cuvier' composed of Audouin, Blanchard, Deshayes, Alcide d'Orbigny, Doyère, Dugès, Duvernoy, Laurillard, Milne Edwards, Roulin and Valenciennes, and was issued in either coloured or uncoloured form as a series of 262 fascicules which form eleven text volumes and eleven plate volumes. BM(NH) I, p.410; Brunet II, cols. 456-457; Nissen ZBI 1014; Wood p.307. For ornithological volumes cf. Anker 111; Ronsil 700; Zimmer 156. (20)
Le Règne animal. Paris: Paul Renouard for Fortin, Masson et Cie., [1836-1849]. 262 fascicules in 20 volumes, 4° (268 x 177mm). Engraved additional titles with portrait vignettes. 993 (of 996) plates by Giraud, Schmelz, Visto and others after Deshayes, Milne Edwards, Oudart, E. Traviès, Werner, comprising: 869 hand-coloured and colour-printed engraved plates, some heightened with gum arabic or silver, including 2 double-page; 2 chromolithographic plates; 122 engraved plates, including 8 double-page, 3 folding, and 20 mounted. (Variable, light browning, lacking plates 8 and 19 and accompanying text in volume VI, and plate 19 and accompanying text in volume XX.) Contemporary French red half roan gilt, the spines gilt in compartments, lettered in two, the others panelled (extremities a little rubbed and scuffed, spines of volumes VI and VII slightly stained), top edges gilt, purple silk markers. Provenance: Feret & Fils, Bordeaux (bookseller's ticket on the lower pastedown of volume XI).
THIRD EDITION. 'THE CELEBRATED ''DISCIPLES'' EDITION' (Wood). Cuvier's Le Regne animal was first published in four volumes in 1817, and was followed by a five-volume edition in 1829. The present, third edition was edited by a distinguished 'réunion de disciples de Cuvier' composed of Audouin, Blanchard, Deshayes, Alcide d'Orbigny, Doyère, Dugès, Duvernoy, Laurillard, Milne Edwards, Roulin and Valenciennes, and was issued in either coloured or uncoloured form as a series of 262 fascicules which form eleven text volumes and eleven plate volumes. BM(NH) I, p.410; Brunet II, cols. 456-457; Nissen ZBI 1014; Wood p.307. For ornithological volumes cf. Anker 111; Ronsil 700; Zimmer 156. (20)
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