Nouvelles Illustrations de Zoologie; New Illustrations of Zoology, containing fifty coloured plates of new, curious, and non-descript Birds, with a few Quadrupeds, Reptiles and Insects The work is especially valuable

The work is especially valuable for its accurate treatment of Mediterranean species and for providing the first zoological accounts of the manatee and sperm whale" (modified after Norman 1848)

spine with five raised bands

and his important memoir on the fossil rhinoceros

15 full page chromolithograph plates (1 ornate chromolithograph title page + 14 chromolithographs of butterflies and moths

Nouvelles Illustrations de Zoologie; New Illustrations of Zoology, containing fifty coloured plates of new, curious, and non-descript Birds, with a few Quadrupeds, Reptiles and Insects The work is especially valuableIn two complete volumes (one hand colored volume and one proof copy with monochrome plates) Pp. (8), 1 136, 50 hand colored lithograph plates + Pp. (8), 50 monochrome lithograph plates, pp. 1 136. Early 20th century full calf leather, spine with five raised bands, lettered in gilt in one compartment on a red morocco title label and with elaborate gilt decorations in the other five compartments, base of spine of each volume has gilt lettered date of