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CUVIER, Georges Léopold Chrétian Frédéric Dagobert, Baron (1769-1832). Le Règne animal. Paris: Paul Renouard for Fortin, Masson et Cie., [1836-1849].
262 fascicules in 20 volumes, 4° (268 x 180mm), engraved additional titles with portrait vignettes, 993 (of 995) plates, 3 folding and 10 double-page by Giraud, Schmelz, Visto and others after Deshayes, Milne Edwards, Oudart, E. Traviès, Werner and others, comprising: 870 hand-coloured and colour-printed engraved plates, some heightened with gum arabic or silver, 2 chromolithographed plates, and 123 engraved plates (lacking 2 plates and accompanying text, some spotting throughout), contemporary French red half roan gilt, the spines gilt in compartments, lettered in two, the others panelled, silk endpapers (extremities a little rubbed and scuffed), top edges gilt. Provenance: Frank Linsly Jones (bookplate).
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 and eleven plate volumes. BM(NH) I, p.410; Brunet II, cols. 456-457; Nissen ZBI 1014; Wood p.307. Cf. Anker 111; Ronsil 700; Zimmer 156. (20)
262 fascicules in 20 volumes, 4° (268 x 180mm), engraved additional titles with portrait vignettes, 993 (of 995) plates, 3 folding and 10 double-page by Giraud, Schmelz, Visto and others after Deshayes, Milne Edwards, Oudart, E. Traviès, Werner and others, comprising: 870 hand-coloured and colour-printed engraved plates, some heightened with gum arabic or silver, 2 chromolithographed plates, and 123 engraved plates (lacking 2 plates and accompanying text, some spotting throughout), contemporary French red half roan gilt, the spines gilt in compartments, lettered in two, the others panelled, silk endpapers (extremities a little rubbed and scuffed), top edges gilt. Provenance: Frank Linsly Jones (bookplate).
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 and eleven plate volumes. BM(NH) I, p.410; Brunet II, cols. 456-457; Nissen ZBI 1014; Wood p.307. Cf. Anker 111; Ronsil 700; Zimmer 156. (20)
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