Botanique organographie et taxonomie. Le Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. Histoire naturelle des mammiferes avec l'indication de leur moeurs... 3 vols.
Publisher Information: Paris: L. Curmer, 1852-55.
1. [Lenegre, Antoine (1819?-1867), binder.] Les trois règnes de la nature. 3 vols.
Vol. I: Le Maout, Emmanuel (d. 1877). Botanique organographie et taxonomie: Histoire naturelle des familles végétales. 387, [1]pp. Frontispiece; plates (some colored); text illustrations.
Vol. II: Cap, Paul-Antoine (1788-1877). Le museum d’histoire naturelle. [8], 180, 238, [2]pp. 2 frontispieces, including one in color, plates; text illustrations.
Vol. III: Gervais, Paul (1816-79). Histoire naturelle des mammifères. xxiv, 418, [2]pp. Colored frontispiece, plates (some in color); text illustrations. Boxed.
Together 3 volumes. Paris: L. Curmer, 1852-54 [Vol. III dated “1855” on the spine]. 267 x 182 mm. In original publisher’s bindings of black or dark blue cloth with colored paper onlays, with elaborate pictorial designs stamped in gilt, all edges gilt, by Antoine Lenegre (1819?-1867), signed “Lenegre rel.” in the stamping at the foot of the spines. Light wear, corner of Vol. III expertly repaired, minor foxing, but very good. First editions.
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