Histoire Naturelle Des Deux Elephants Male Et Femelle Du Museum De Paris Venus De Hollande En

by Jean Pierre Louis Laurent Houel

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First edition

Paris: chez l'auteur, Pougens et al. , an XII - 1803. First edition, folio, pp. 6 , 122; 20 engraved plates by and after drawings by the author; modern brown goat-backed marbled boards, gilt-lettering direct on spine; lightly scuffed, 19th-century rubberstamps at top of the title and half-title page; very good and sound. Houel's illustrations depict the life of two Indian elephants brought to Holland and then Paris in 1797. The engravings show the

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