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[LACEPEDE, COMTE DE]. Histoire Naturelle de Lacepede Comprenant Les Cetaces, Les Quadrupedes Ovipares, Les Serpents Et Les Poissons. Nouvelle Edition Precedee de L'Eloge de Lacepede Par Cuvier Avec Des Notes Et la Nouvelle Classification de M.A. -G. Desmarest.
Paris: Furne, Jouvet et Cie, 1867. Large octavo, two volumes, 1310 pp, 36 handcoloured engraved plates. Early brown calf and marbled boards, all edges coloured, a few inoffensive spots, otherwise a handsome copy. This edition of Histoire naturelle de Lacepede was first published in 1856 and "the many subsequent volumes and editions [of treatises on vertebrates based on Cuvier and Desmarest] by this author follow Buffon and his teachings" (Casey Wood p. 424). The handsome plates by Edouard Travies "... one of the finest painters at work in the first half of the 19th century" (Jackson Dictionary of Bird Artists of the World p. 467) cover the following subjects: volume one, whales five plates, reptiles and batrachians 15 plates, fish four plates; volume two, fish twelve plates. BM(NH) p. 1041; Casey Wood p. 424.
Offered for AUD 1850.00 = appr. US$ 1474.45 by: Andrew Isles Natural History Books - Book number: 12579