Histoire naturelle de Lacepede comprenant les cetaces, les quadrupedes ovipares, les serpents et les poissons. Nouvelle edition precedee de L'eloge de Lacepede par Cuvier avec des notes et la nouvelle classification de M. A.-G. Desmarest.
Paris: Furne, Jouvet et Cie, 1867. Large octavo, 36 handcoloured engraved plates. Early brown calf and marbled boards, all edges coloured, a few inoffensive spots, otherwise a handsome copy. This edition of Histoire naturelle de Lacepede was first published in 1856 and "the many subsequent volumes and editions [of treatises..... More