Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres : présentant les caractères généraux et particuliers de ces animaux, leur distribution, leurs classes, leurs familles, leurs genres, et la citation des principales espèces qui s'y rapportent : précédée d'une introduction offrant la détermination des caractères essentiels de l'animal, sa distinction du végétal et des autres corps naturels, ...
"Vers intestinaux," t. 3, edited by Nordmann; "Echinodermes" and "Tuniciers," t. 3, edited by F. Dujardin.
Printers include: Hippolyte Tilliard (t. 1, 4, 6) and Paul Renouard (t. 3, 5, 7-11).
Publisher's advertisements on verso of half-title in t. 1, 3, 5, 8, 10-11.
Errata information on final p. of t. 2 and on the final p. of t. 7.
Sherborn, C.D. Index animalium, sect. 2, pt. 1, p. lxxvii
BM (Nat. hist.), v. 3, p. 1049
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SCNHRB has five copies; c. 5 is incomplete, with t. 4, only.
SCNHRB c. 1 has stamp on front paste-down endpaper: S. Stillman Berry ... Redlands, California; date added in ms. ink: 12 (or 15).IX.1949.
SCNHRB c. 1 has some pencilled notes in S.S. Berry's hand on endpapers of t. 1; also pencilled markings in t. 9.
SCNHRB c. 1 has lower half of half-title leaf in t. 2 cut away.
SCNHRB c. 1 has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Bequest of S. Stillman Berry. Gift of Clyde Roper.
SCNHRB c. 1 has contemporary binding of tree-stained half-leather with marbled paper boards, gilt-tooled spine, and marbled edges.
SCNHRB c. 2 has bookplates of William Healey Dall. Stamped on half titles or t.p.'s: Division of Mollusks Sectional Library.
SCNHRB c. 2 has inscription at head of t.p. of t. 5: Edmund Sheppard Sept 6. 1838; t. 11: Edmund Sheppard April 11th 1863.
SCNHRB c. 2 half bound in brown calf and marbled paper boards, title in gilt within raised bands of spine, 'WHD" in gilt at foot of spine; red sprinkled edges.
SCNHRB c. 3 t. 1-7 (39088013489323, 39088013489364, 39088013489406, 39088013489448, 39088013489489, 39088013489521, 39088013489562) have bookplates: William Healey Dall, Division of Mollusks Sectional Library (t. 8: 39088013483250, t. 9: 39088013483292, t. 10: 39088013483334, t. 11: 39088013483375) has, in t. 8, 10 & 11, bookplates of John Brooks Henderson and William Healey Dall, Division of Mollusks Sectional Library. T. 9 with bookplate of John Brooks Henderson and Alexander Wetmore. Stamped on t.p.'s: Division of Mollusks Sectional Library.
SCNHRB c. 3 has occasional pencilled ms. markings.
SCNHRB c. 3 has t. 7 bound in brown library buckram, with title either in gilt or white on spine; t. 8, 10 & 11 half bound in tan calf and marbled paper boards, red sprinkled edges; t. 9 is bound in recent green-gray linen and green cloth, printed paper spine label.
SCNHRB c. 4 stamped in red on t.p.'s: Smithsonian Institution; stamped on t.p.'s: Smithsonian Institution U.S. National Museum [ms. acc. no.] 278207-278217.
SCNHRB c. 4 bound in black library buckram, title in gilt on spine.
SCNHRB c. 5 has t. 4, only (39088002790020), in later green buckram library binding with gilt-lettered spine.
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Contents:
T. 1. Introduction. Infusoires. 1835 -- t. 2. Histoire des polypes. 1836 -- t. 3. Radiaires, vers, insectes. 1840 -- t. 4. Histoire des insectes. 1835 -- t. 5. Arachnides, crustacés, annelides, cirrhipè̈des. 1838 -- t. 6-10. Histoire des mollusques [t. 8 called Mollusques]. 1835-1844 -- t. 11. Histoire des mollusques. Table générale. 1845
