Album d'Histoire Naturelle ou Musée des Colléges des Écoles et des Familles
Lausanne: Librairie Delafontaine et Compagnie, ca. 1860. Hardcover. Folio. Unpaginated, no leaves of text. Marbled paper over boards with a paper label printed in black on the front board, a gold border on the front board. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Various prices printed on the front board's paper label. Illustrated with 30 bright and beautiful color plates, lithographs carefully forming a beautiful atlas representing 225 figures of animals from all the species and principle categories with a summary table. Fair. Item #000017238
The binding material on the spine and portions of the board perished (much of the paper on the front board is perished), an old dampspot on the free front endpaper's verso.
Price: $250.00