CUVIER, Georges Lopold Chrtian Frederic Dagobert, Baron de (1769-1832). Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles... Nouvelle dition. Paris and Amsterdam: G. Dufour and E. d'Ocagne, 1821-24. 5 vols. bound in 6, 4o (285 x 220 mm). Half-titles, 273 engraved plates, many double-page and including 2 handcolored geological maps (one of them folding). (A few text leaves browned, vol. 2 pt. 2 folding plate 1A slightly torn at fold, vol. 3 plate 27 torn.) Contemporary straight-grained red morocco, gilt and blind-stamped borders enclosing gilt-ruled lozenge centerpiece ornaments stamped in blind, spines in six compartments, blue endpapers, g.e., stamp-signed by Wahl on spines of vols. 1 and 5 part 2 (some slight abrasion). New edition, augmented. Nissen ZBI 1011. An attractive copy. (6)

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CUVIER, Georges Lopold Chrtian Frederic Dagobert, Baron de (1769-1832). Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles... Nouvelle dition. Paris and Amsterdam: G. Dufour and E. d'Ocagne, 1821-24. 5 vols. bound in 6, 4o (285 x 220 mm). Half-titles, 273 engraved plates, many double-page and including 2 handcolored geological maps (one of them folding). (A few text leaves browned, vol. 2 pt. 2 folding plate 1A slightly torn at fold, vol. 3 plate 27 torn.) Contemporary straight-grained red morocco, gilt and blind-stamped borders enclosing gilt-ruled lozenge centerpiece ornaments stamped in blind, spines in six compartments, blue endpapers, g.e., stamp-signed by Wahl on spines of vols. 1 and 5 part 2 (some slight abrasion). New edition, augmented. Nissen ZBI 1011. An attractive copy. (6)