Publisher:
Paris, Deterville: 1817
1817 LANDMARK TREATISE ON MOLLUSCS BY GEORGES CUVIER, LEADING FRENCH COMPARATIVE ANATOMIST--35 FINE COPPER PLATE ENGRAVED PLATES. 10 inches tall hardcover, recent burgundy cloth binding, gilt title on black leather label to spine, new endpapers, viii, 496 pp, 35 plates. Binding fine, institutional handstamp to half title and title pages, scattered foxing, old water stain to lower corner of some pages, overall good+. Notably, the memoire on the barnacles is inserted between memoires XXI and XXII in the table of contents, but not listed therein. Prior to the publication in 1830 of John Vaughan T...
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