Oeuvres du comte de Lacépède : comprenant l'histoire naturelle des quadrupèdes ovipares, des serpens, des poissons et des cétacés : accompagnées de 150 planches gravées sur acier, représentant au moins 500 animaux
3 v., 150 [i.e. 164] leaves of plates in various foliations : ill. ; 22-24 cm
Type:
Pictorial works
Date:
1836
Notes:
"Imprimerie de Terzuolo" --Verso of half title.
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SCNHRB copy inscribed in ink on t.p. of t. 1 & 2 (39088013490958, 39088013490990), half title of t. 3 (39088013491030): Remington Kellogg.
SCNHRB copy has bookplate: In memory of Remington Kellogg. Stamp of t.p.: Remington Kellogg Library of Marine Mammology, Smithsonian Institution.
SCNHRB copy has two extra volumes (39088013491071, 39088013491113), "Gravures", containing duplicates of most of the plates used in this edition, all hand colored (152 plates total). Plates numbered 101-112 from t. 1-3 are not included in these extra volumes; plates numbered 101, 102, and 103 in these extra volumes correspond respectively to plate nos. 114, 113, and 115 of t. 1-3.
SCNHRB copy tomes 1-3 bound in red quarter-leather and buckram, marbled endpapers, with the original printed paper wrappers bound in.
SCNHRB copy both of the extra plate volumes are quarter bound in calf and marbled boards, marbled endpapers; binder's title reads: La Cépède. Gravures.
