Mission Scientifique au Mexique et dans l'Amérique Centrale: Études sur les Poissons 500 full-page hand-colored plates

500 full-page hand-colored plates

lettered in gilt on the spine and with gilt ruling on the front and rear covers

Dark green half morocco

Early fine-weave blue cloth

Mission Scientifique au Mexique et dans l'Amérique Centrale: Études sur les Poissons 500 full-page hand-colored platesPp. 200, 17 full page plates 15 are beautiful chromolithograph plates finished by hand and heightened with gum arabic by Bocourt and lithographed by Mesnel (each plate has an accompanying page of descriptive text). Quarter red morocco with five raised bands, gilt lettered on the spine over French marbled boards with matching French marbled endpapers (original gray printed wrappers are bound in place), folio (14. 25 x 11 inches). This work was issued