Mammalogie ou Description des Espèces de Mammifères

by Desmarest, nselme, aëtan

$400 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

Paris: Chez Mme Veuve Agasse, 1820-1822. First Edition. Quarto 29.5cm . Two volumes bound together. Rebound in modern half calf with marbled paper-covered boards, spine tooled in gilt with title on brown leather label, all edges stained green; modern marbled endpapers; viii, 1 -276, viii, 277 - 556 pp. Manuscript note in pencil to p.395. Bookplate of noted zoologist James G. Mead, Curator

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