Author: Milne-Edwards, H.
Title: Histoire naturelle des crustacés comprenant l'anatomie, la physique et la classification de ces animaux. Atlas.
Description: Paris, Roret, 1840. Four parts in four. 8vo (21.0 x 12.9 cm - three text volumes) Large 8vo (24.6 x 15.5 cm -atlas). 1,674 pp. [I (1834) xxxv, 468; II (1837) 532 pp.; III (1840) ii, 605; Atlas (undated) 32 pp.]. Nine folded tables, 44 engraved plates of which 36 are hand-coloured (some partly), tissue guarded. Contemporary uniform green morocco over marbled boards. Spines with gilt lines and title, marbled endpapers (text parts), slightly later blind grained half morocco over dark green boards. Speckled endpapers (atlas). = Rare hand-coloured edition of this classic work on crustaceans (and some other arthopod groups, e.g. Pycnogona). With plates 14bis and 25bis not quoted by Nissen, who apparently, was mislead by the text "Renfermant 42 planches gravées sur acier" on the atlas's title page. Armorial bookplate of the marquis Sinety "virtute nitet" on front paste-down of text part I. Name of former owner, the crustacean expert Jacques Forest, stamped in script, on half titles. Atlas uncut. The lower half of the atlas' back strip missing. A few plates a bit spotted and a few with small, marginal wormholes far from the images, anatomie plate 14 with a crease and some toning. The text parts in excellent condition. In all a good complete set, the text parts being attractively bound. Nissen ZBI, 2838.

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