Iconographie du règne animal de G. Cuvier, ou, Représentation d'après nature de l'une des espèces les plus et souvent non encore figurées de chaque genre d'animaux : avec un texte descriptif mis au courant de la science : ouvrage pouvant servir d'atlas a tous les traites de zoologie / par M. F.E. Guérin-Méneville
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Physical description:
3 volumes in 4, [450] leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Type:
Pictorial works
Date:
1829
1844
1829-1844
Notes:
Each section has separate title page and separate numeration of text and plates
Issued in 50 livraisons, each containing portions of different sections
"Paris: Imprimerie de Fain et Thunot"--Verso of half titles
Includes indexes
C. Nissen, Zoologische Buchillustration, 1747
Also available online
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SCNHRB has three copies, two are incomplete.
SCNHRB c. 1 (39088015065600, 39088015065642, 39088015065683, 39088015065725) is incomplete: 339 plates only (lacking portrait of Latreille); lacks text and plates pertaining to section on Insects; text section complete? ("Avis" lists pagination as 919 pages, and this copy has approximately 300 pages)
SCNHRB c. 1 has some of the plates hand-colored
SCNHRB c. 1 has bookplates: United States Department of Agriculture Library; embossed on title pages: USDA LIB
SCNHRB c. 1 has various prospecti and subscription invitations bound-in at end of tome 3
SCNHRB c. 1 is quarter bound in either purple or black calf and mauve buckram, title in gilt on spine, marbled endpapers; bookseller's label: W. Junk ... Berlin; housed in gray cardboard archival boxes
SCNHRB c. 2 (39088015065766, 39088015065808, 39088015065840, 39088015065881) is complete. One section, Insectes, is bound separately
SCNHRB c. 2 has booklabel: Henri Donckier
SCNHRB c. 2 has bookplate of Collection of William Schaus, presented to the National Museum MCMV
SCNHRB c. 2 is bound in black library buckram, title in gilt on spine; tome 2 is bound in quarter calf and acid-patterned paper boards
SCNHRB c. 3 (39088015065923) is incomplete, consisting of portraits and mollusks plates only
SCNHRB c. 3 is stamped on livraison title page: Division of Mollusks Sectional Library
SCNHRB c. 3 is half bound in sheepskin and stone pattern marbled boards (front cover missing); housed in an archival envelope
